01 Feb 2021
By Mary

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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17 Dec 2020
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 12/17/2020

Microsoft and industry partners seize key domain used in SolarWinds hack Microsoft and a coalition of tech companies have intervened today to seize and sinkhole a domain that played a central role in the SolarWinds hack, ZDNet has learned from sources familiar with the matter. The domain in question is avsvmcloud[.]com, which served as command and control (C&C) server for malware delivered to around 18,000 SolarWinds customers via a trojanized update for the company's Orion app. According…
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11 Dec 2020
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 12/11/2020

Hackers steal data on Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine The manufacturers of one of the leading Covid-19 vaccines has admitted that it has been targeted in an apparent cyberattack. US firm Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech, which collectively have developed the first Covid vaccine to achieve approval in the West, confirmed that documents related to the vaccine’s development had been “unlawfully accessed.” Little information is known about the attack, including likely instigators, or when and how the attack…
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27 Jul 2020
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 7/27/2020

Slack credentials abundant on cybercrime markets, but little interest from hackers Slack credentials are abundant on hacking forums and the dark web; however, an analysis of the cybercrime underworld shows there's little interest in the platform among hacker groups. The conclusion belongs to cybersecurity firm KELA, who scoured the cybercrime market for Slack credentials following last week's Twitter hack and shared their findings with ZDNet this week. The credentials belonged to more than 12,000 different…
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