24 Mar 2025
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 3/24/2025

Cloudflare builds an AI to lead AI scraper bots into a horrible maze of junk content Cloudflare has created a bot-busting AI to make life hell for AI crawlers. The network-taming company built the tool after noticing that almost one percent of all requests to access web content that it can see now come from AI crawler bots. Those bots are probably scraping data that’s gathered up to train AI models. Web site operators can…
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10 Jan 2025
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 1/10/2025

License Plate Readers Are Leaking Real-Time Video Feeds and Vehicle Data In just 20 minutes this morning, an automated license-plate-recognition (ALPR) system in Nashville, Tennessee, captured photographs and detailed information from nearly 1,000 vehicles as they passed by. Among them: eight black Jeep Wranglers, six Honda Accords, an ambulance, and a yellow Ford Fiesta with a vanity plate. This trove of real-time vehicle data, collected by one of Motorola’s ALPR systems, is meant to be accessible…
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26 Sep 2022
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 09/26/2022

Oracle Cloud admits users could access other customer data A vulnerability in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) could have allowed basically any user to read and write data belonging to any other OCI customer, researchers have claimed. Experts from cloud security firm Wiz said they stumbled upon the vulnerability when building an OCI connector for their own tech stack, discovering that they could attach other people’s virtual disks to their virtual machine instances. The only thing…
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06 Oct 2020
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 10/06/2020

SunCrypt ransomware group swears off medical entities, sets sights on cybersecurity firms When the SunCrypt ransomware group opened a leak site where they listed victims who had not paid their ransom demands, they attracted public attention and demonstrated their ability to use the media to their advantage. In following up on their previously disclosed victims and leaks, DataBreaches.net noticed that a medical entity who had been listed on SunCrypt’s site no longer appeared on it.…
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