InfoSec News Nuggets 05/03/2023

Western Digital hackers publish leaked images to taunt storage giant Hackers that breached Western Digital(opens in new tab)’s (WD) systems and stole sensitive data in late March 2023 have posted a series of screenshots of internal emails and other company communication which they say shows WD’s poor efforts to address the incident. Cybersecurity researcher Dominic Alvieri discovered a total of 29 screenshots showing emails, documents, and video conferences, all related to the actions WD took following the…
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InfoSec News Nuggets 02/01/2021

New Spotify Patent Involves Monitoring Users’ Speech to Recommend Music Spotify has been granted a patent with technology that aims to use recordings of users’ speech and background noise to determine what kind of music to curate and recommend to them, Music Business Worldwide reports. The company filed for the patent in 2018; it was approved on January 12, 2021. The patent outlines potential uses of technology that involves the extraction of “intonation, stress, rhythm, and the likes of units…
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