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Pandora confirms data breach amid ongoing Salesforce data theft attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-06 06:16:39

Danish jewelry giant Pandora has disclosed a data breach after its customer information was stolen in the ongoing Salesforce data theft attacks. Pandora is one of the largest jewellery brands in the world, with 2,700 locations and over 37,000 employees. "We are writing to inform you that your contact information was accessed by an unauthorized party through a third-party platform we use," reads a Pandora data breach notification sent to customers. "We stopped the access and have further stren

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Fashion giant Chanel hit in wave of Salesforce data theft attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-09 11:54:17

French fashion giant Chanel is the latest company to suffer a data breach in an ongoing wave of Salesforce data theft attacks. Chanel says the breach was first detected on July 25th after threat actors gained access to a Chanel database hosted at a third-party service provider, as first reported by WWD. The breach only impacted customers in the United States and exposed personal contact information. "Based on the findings of the investigation, the data obtained by the unauthorized external pa

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The military’s squad of satellite trackers is now routinely going on alert

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-13 02:21:48

This is Part 2 of our interview with Col. Raj Agrawal, the former commander of the Space Force's Space Mission Delta 2. If it seems like there's a satellite launch almost every day, the numbers will back you up. The US Space Force's Mission Delta 2 is a unit that reports to Space Operations Command, with the job of sorting out the nearly 50,000 trackable objects humans have launched into orbit. Dozens of satellites are being launched each week, primarily by SpaceX to continue deploying the St

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Formula E cars keep getting faster and faster: What’s next for the sport?

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-14 15:51:16

In addition to being bigger and heavier, teams are also going to have high- and low-downforce configurations. Racing drivers will always want more grip, but the addition of aerodynamics to push cars down onto the track surface can fundamentally change the racing, and not always in a way that makes for an entertaining spectacle for the audience. That said, Formula E isn’t adding downforce to Gen 4 just because. Change is never easy "This was a hot topic. No mitigation: car performance, car perf

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Formula E wraps up season 11—where does the all-EV series go next?

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-14 21:51:16

In addition to being bigger and heavier, teams are also going to have high- and low-downforce configurations. Racing drivers will always want more grip, but the addition of aerodynamics to push cars down onto the track surface can fundamentally change the racing, and not always in a way that makes for an entertaining spectacle for the audience. That said, Formula E isn’t adding downforce to Gen 4 just because. Change is never easy "This was a hot topic. No mitigation: car performance, car perf

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How to Scan Force Pushed Commits for Secrets

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-15 00:10:21

Key Insights The new Force Push Scanner tool scans for secrets in dangling commits on GitHub that remain exposed after certain force push operations. Run the following command to scan your GitHub repositories: python force_push_scanner . py -- db - file pushes . sqlite3 -- scan < github_org / user Zero-Commit Force Push operations: where developers attempt to erase mistakes by resetting their git history without pushing new commits. There are tens of millions of dangling commits publicly acc

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ShinyHunters behind Salesforce data theft attacks at Qantas, Allianz Life, and LVMH

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-17 10:52:39

A wave of data breaches impacting companies like Qantas, Allianz Life, LVMH, and Adidas has been linked to the ShinyHunters extortion group, which has been using voice phishing attacks to steal data from Salesforce CRM instances. In June, Google's Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) warned that threat actors tracked as UNC6040 were targeting Salesforce customers in social engineering attacks. In these attacks, the threat actors impersonated IT support staff in phone calls to targeted employees, a

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Space Force bets on commercial entrants in $4B satcom contest

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-12-19 16:55:38

American warfighters need jam-proof communications, and the Space Force is planning to spend hundreds of millions to ensure they have them. As part of that effort, the service established the Protected Tactical Satcom program to build out secure battlefield communications via satellites. The Space Force has already awarded contracts to defense primes Boeing and Northrop Grumman to develop prototype payloads for satellites heading to far-away geostationary orbit. Now, the program is entering a

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Space Force’s Secretive X-37B Is Returning to Space With New Tech

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-12-20 21:55:45

Just a few months after wrapping up its seventh test flight in orbit, Space Force’s experimental vehicle known as X-37B is ready for another go. For its upcoming mission, the spaceplane will test new technologies meant to bolster military capabilities in space, such as a navigational sensor that could replace GPS. The U.S. Space Force is set to launch the Boeing-built orbital test vehicle, designated as OTV-8, on August 21 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket

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A Secretive US Space Plane Will Soon Test Quantum Navigation Technology

wired.com Eric Berger 2025-12-21 11:30:00

The X-37B, the US Space Force’s secretive space plane, will soon take flight again. On Monday, the Space Force announced that it will fly the small, Space Shuttle–shaped vehicle on the program’s eighth mission next month. The launch of the vehicle, on a Falcon 9 rocket, is scheduled to occur no earlier than August 21 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. There are two active X-37Bs in the Space Force fleet, both built by Boeing. The first made its debut flight in April 2010. Since then, the tw

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AV-Racer Devlog (1): Getting a functional car model

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-20 11:23:09

wassimulator; I make stuff Next article ► AV-Racer Devlog (1): Getting a functional car model est. reading time: 10 minutes The first question revolving around the interest of making a car game was figuring out the methods used by car games in simulating a car body. My modest lacunary conglamurate of car facts was all I had to start with, the general idea was to simulate car and tire forces that would move the thing through the might of physics. The right approach to this problem became a matt

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‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video]

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-22 18:05:41

A retired US special forces officer has revealed to the BBC why he resigned from his work with US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid distribution centres. "I witnessed the Israeli Defense Forces shooting at the crowds of Palestinians," Anthony Aguilar told the BBC. He added that in his entire career he has never witnessed such a level of "brutality and use of indiscriminate and unnecessary force against a civilian population, an unarmed, starving population".

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Nearly 4,000 NASA Employees Quit as Part of Trump Buyouts

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-12-23 21:10:38

More than 20% of NASA’s civil workforce has elected to leave the agency since President Trump took office in January, the agency revealed on Friday, July 25. In the latest wave of resignations, thousands accepted deals through the Trump administration’s deferred resignation program. In a statement emailed to SpaceNews on Friday, NASA said about 3,000 employees applied for buyouts through a second round of the program. Earlier this year, the first round saw 870 staffers leave the agency. The nea

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A secretive space plane is set to launch and test quantum navigation technology

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-24 06:38:12

The X-37B, the US Space Force's secretive space plane, will soon take flight again. On Monday, the Space Force announced that it will fly the small, Space Shuttle-shaped vehicle on the program's eighth mission next month. The launch of the vehicle, on a Falcon 9 rocket, is scheduled to occur no earlier than August 21 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. There are two active X-37Bs in the Space Force fleet, both built by Boeing. The first made its debut flight in April 2010. Since then, the tw

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Allianz Life confirms data breach impacts majority of 1.4 million customers

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-24 14:00:55

Insurance company Allianz Life has confirmed that the personal information for the "majority" of its 1.4 million customers was exposed in a data breach that occurred earlier this month. "On July 16, 2025, a malicious threat actor gained access to a third-party, cloud-based CRM system used by Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America (Allianz Life)," an Allianz Life spokesperson told BleepingComputer. "The threat actor was able to obtain personally identifiable data related to the majorit

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Programming vehicles in games

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-25 10:41:03

wassimulator; I make stuff Programming Vehicles in Games The fundamental principles needed to get a functional vehicle in your game. From my talk at the Better Software Conference on July the 13th, 2025. est. reading time: 45 minutes Watch the video of the talk here: Table of Contents Cars are everywhere in games. They're a staple element of many genres, even in games that aren't strictly about cars. If a game world involves any sort of traversal, chances are there's a vehicle in it (unless y

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Programming Vehicles in Games

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-26 16:41:03

wassimulator; I make stuff Programming Vehicles in Games The fundamental principles needed to get a functional vehicle in your game. From my talk at the Better Software Conference on July the 13th, 2025. est. reading time: 45 minutes Watch the video of the talk here: Table of Contents Cars are everywhere in games. They're a staple element of many genres, even in games that aren't strictly about cars. If a game world involves any sort of traversal, chances are there's a vehicle in it (unless y

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BlackSuit ransomware leak sites seized in Operation Checkmate

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-28 02:34:13

Law enforcement has seized the dark web leak sites of the BlackSuit ransomware operation, which has targeted and breached the networks of hundreds of organizations worldwide over the past several years. The U.S. Department of Justice confirmed the takedown in an email earlier today, saying the authorities involved in the action executed a court-authorized seizure of the BlackSuit domains. Earlier today, the websites on the BlackSuit .onion domains were replaced with seizure banners announcing

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RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine group sues him: “This is not the Bobby we know”

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-28 08:58:50

A lawyer who represents Children's Health Defense—the rabid anti-vaccine organization founded by the equally fervent anti-vaccine advocate and current US health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—has filed a lawsuit against Kennedy, alleging that he has failed to set up a task force to promote safer childhood vaccinations. The task force's creation is outlined in the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, which is mainly known for setting up the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Progra

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Lumma infostealer malware returns after law enforcement disruption

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-02 16:34:42

The Lumma infostealer malware operation is gradually resuming activities following a massive law enforcement operation in May, which resulted in the seizure of 2,300 domains and parts of its infrastructure. Although the Lumma malware-as-a-service (MaaS) platform suffered significant disruption from the law enforcement action, as confirmed by early June reports on infostealer activity, it didn't shut down. The operators immediately acknowledged the situation on XSS forums, but claimed that thei

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Salesforce used AI to cut support load by 5% — but the real win was teaching bots to say ‘I’m sorry’

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2026-01-09 11:00:00

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Salesforce has crossed a significant threshold in the enterprise AI race, surpassing 1 million autonomous agent conversations on its help portal — a milestone that offers a rare glimpse into what it takes to deploy AI agents at massive scale and the surprising lessons learned along the way. The achievement, confirmed by company executives

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Calm Down About the Area 51 Fire, People

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-11 10:11:10

A large wildfire torched up this week near Nevada's mysterious Area 51 Air Force base — and naturally, the rumor mill is churning. As the Daily Mail reports, the blaze near the highly-classified base was sparked by the so-called Gothic Fire, a massive wildfire that broke out some 20 miles away from the base and has since burned through tens of thousands of acres of desert. EWU Crew, a livestream based in the nearby town of Rachel, Nevada that watches the Air Force base around the clock, captur

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Amazon cuts some jobs in cloud computing unit as layoffs continue

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2026-01-11 16:10:10

Attendees walk through an exposition hall at AWS re:Invent, a conference hosted by Amazon Web Services, in Las Vegas on Dec. 3, 2024. Amazon is laying off some staffers in its cloud computing division, the company confirmed on Thursday. "After a thorough review of our organization, our priorities, and what we need to focus on going forward, we've made the difficult business decision to eliminate some roles across particular teams in AWS," Amazon spokesperson Brad Glasser said in a statement. "

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Slack gets smarter: New AI tools summarize chats, explain jargon, and automate work

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2026-01-12 11:00:00

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Slack is rolling out an extensive array of artificial intelligence features that promise to eliminate routine tasks and turn the messaging platform into a central hub for enterprise productivity, marking owner Salesforce’s direct challenge to Microsoft’s workplace AI dominance. The announcements, set to roll out over the coming months, inc

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Police disrupt “Diskstation” ransomware gang attacking NAS devices

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-17 06:53:08

An international law enforcement action dismantled a Romanian ransomware gang known as 'Diskstation,' which encrypted the systems of several companies in the Lombardy region, paralyzing their businesses. The law enforcement operation codenamed 'Operation Elicius' was coordinated by Europol and also involved police forces in France and Romania. Diskstation is a ransomware operation that targets Synology Network-Attached Storage (NAS) devices, which are commonly used by companies for centralized

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Rian Johnson Aimed to Make the ‘Empire Strikes Back’ of the ‘Star Wars’ Sequels

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2026-01-18 21:45:45

When talking about his time in Star Wars, Rian Johnson often says that he’d like to return to that world one day, at least once he stops making murder-mystery movies and TV shows. But while fans continue to hope he’ll make that once-planned trilogy one day, others can’t quite get past the seeming disappointments contained in his franchise entry, The Last Jedi. In a new interview, Johnson recalls what he was told when he came aboard the Lucasfilm project. Speaking to Rolling Stone, Johnson addre

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Data brokers are selling flight information to CBP and ICE

news.ycombinator.com Paige Collings 2026-01-19 14:02:36

For many years, data brokers have existed in the shadows, exploiting gaps in privacy laws to harvest our information—all for their own profit. They sell our precise movements without our knowledge or meaningful consent to a variety of private and state actors, including law enforcement agencies. And they show no sign of stopping. This incentivizes other bad actors. If companies collect any kind of personal data and want to make a quick buck, there’s a data broker willing to buy it and sell it t

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M&S confirms social engineering led to massive ransomware attack

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-30 02:39:53

M&S confirmed today that the retail outlet's network was initially breached in a "sophisticated impersonation attack" that ultimately led to a DragonForce ransomware attack. M&S chairman Archie Norman revealed this in a hearing with the UK Parliament's Business and Trade Sub-Committee on Economic Security regarding the recent attacks on the retail sector in the country. While Norman did not go into details, he stated that the threat actors impersonated one of the 50,000 people working with the

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Amazon offers four more free games for Prime Day, including Marvel’s Midnight Suns

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-01 00:37:08

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . The 2025 edition of Prime Day is upon us and, as expected, Amazon is offering Prime members an extra batch of games at no additional cost. Four more PC titles are now available to Prime Gaming subscribers, namely Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Marvel’

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A million customer conversations with AI agents yielded this surprising lesson

zdnet.com Vala Afshar 2026-02-01 04:00:13

Mykyta Atamanchuk/Getty Images Salesforce has had over one million AI agent-customer conversations. The company launched AI agents on its Salesforce Help site in October 2024, a full-screen experience that makes getting support simpler and more intuitive. With more than 60 million visits each year, Salesforce Help offers a wide range of product content through organized directories, search, and direct support. Having handled a million support requests since the launch of AI agents, Salesforce

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Pandora confirms data breach amid ongoing Salesforce data theft attacks

Fashion giant Chanel hit in wave of Salesforce data theft attacks

The military’s squad of satellite trackers is now routinely going on alert

Formula E cars keep getting faster and faster: What’s next for the sport?

Formula E wraps up season 11—where does the all-EV series go next?

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ShinyHunters behind Salesforce data theft attacks at Qantas, Allianz Life, and LVMH

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‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video]

Nearly 4,000 NASA Employees Quit as Part of Trump Buyouts

A secretive space plane is set to launch and test quantum navigation technology

Allianz Life confirms data breach impacts majority of 1.4 million customers

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Programming Vehicles in Games

BlackSuit ransomware leak sites seized in Operation Checkmate

RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine group sues him: “This is not the Bobby we know”

Lumma infostealer malware returns after law enforcement disruption

Salesforce used AI to cut support load by 5% — but the real win was teaching bots to say ‘I’m sorry’

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Data brokers are selling flight information to CBP and ICE

M&S confirms social engineering led to massive ransomware attack

Amazon offers four more free games for Prime Day, including Marvel’s Midnight Suns

A million customer conversations with AI agents yielded this surprising lesson

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