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No, Google did not warn 2.5 billion Gmail users to reset passwords

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-17 09:57:28

Google has disputed a widely reported story about the company warning all Gmail users to reset their passwords due to a recent data breach that also affected some Workspace accounts. This claim was covered by numerous news outlets, as well as cybersecurity firms, which published stories about the so-called "urgent warning" asking 2.5 billion Gmail users worldwide to enable two-step authentication and reset their passwords. However, as the company explained on a Monday blog post addressing thes

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'2.5 billion Gmail users at risk'? Entirely false, says Google

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-10-17 18:55:54

SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Google did not issue a warning about a major security breach. But hackers have been targeting Salesforce data in the cloud. Always be alert for phishing and vishing attacks. Worried about reports that a major security breach has impacted your Gmail account? Well, apparently, those claims are much ado about nothing. Also: How to encrypt any email - in Outlook, Gmail, and o

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TransUnion data breach hits millions, but Gmail security reports are false

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-10-18 06:57:12

A TransUnion data breach has exposed sensitive personal information for millions of US consumers, including dates of birth and social security numbers. However, reports of a major Gmail security problem affecting all 2.5 billion users are false, though loosely based on a far more contained incident back in June … TransUnion data breach Credit bureau TransUnion has confirmed reports that it has suffered a significant data breach exposing the personal data of around 4.4 million US consumers. O

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Unfortunately, the ICEBlock app is activism theater

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-18 06:19:31

At this summer's HOPE conference, Joshua Aaron spoke about ICEBlock, his iPhone app that allows users to anonymously report ICE sightings within a 5 mile radius, and to get notifications when others report ICE sightings near them. You can see the full talk, and the lively/infuriating Q&A, here, starting at 6:12:10. Thanks to repression from the highest levels of the Trump administration, his app has gone viral and garnered over a million downloads from the App Store. Karoline Leavitt called it

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Europol said ChatControl doesn't go far enough; they want to retain data forever

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-18 06:21:42

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Google debunks claims of major Gmail security alert

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-19 02:36:13

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google says reports of a mass Gmail security warning are false. Some outlets reporting on phishing data last week framed it as a mass Gmail security alert. The company insists Gmail protections remain strong, but advises using passkeys and learning to spot phishing emails. Online threats are scary enough without false or overhyped alarms adding to the confusion. Last week, several outlets claimed that Gmail had issued a major warning to all 2.5 billi

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The time picker on the iPhone's alarm app isn't circular, it's just a long list

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-19 13:54:24

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Why Is Tech Worried When Stocks Like Chevron Drop On Global Oil Worries?

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-10-20 11:13:42

Chevron’s stock declined sharply this week before paring back losses, as mounting concerns about volatility in the global oil markets spooked traders. Another group of worried market watchers? Tech companies, big and small. Casual observers sometimes wonder why technology stocks—often seen as disconnected from the oil industry—sometimes react sharply to oil price movements and related news. But the two sectors are much more connected than you might realize. That link largely stems from the br

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Google Investors Surprisingly Chill About Major Data Breach

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-10-20 08:05:36

The stock of Google’s parent company ended Friday’s trading session relatively unchanged, as investors digested news of a major data leak and broader market developments. Alphabet Inc. (GOOG)’s shares closed at $213.53, up slightly from the day’s prior end price, despite Google‘s global security alert advising its 2.5 billion Gmail users to update their information following a data breach involving one of its Salesforce databases. The company immediately issued a network-wide alert telling use

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Apple @ Work: SAP updates Privileges with new tools for managing admin rights on macOS

9to5mac.com Bradley C 2025-10-20 04:00:00

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New interpretations suggest the "heat death" hypothesis might not hold (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-20 06:25:10

New interpretations of the laws of thermodynamics suggest the infamous “heat death” hypothesis, which foretells the end of all life and organization in the universe, might not hold. Credits Bobby Azarian is a cognitive neuroscientist, a science journalist and the author of the book “The Romance of Reality: How the Universe Organizes Itself to Create Life, Consciousness and Cosmic Complexity.” Perhaps the most depressing scientific idea that has ever been put forth is the infamous “heat death h

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AI models need a virtual machine

news.ycombinator.com Shraddha Barke 2025-10-20 04:25:39

AI Models Need a Virtual Machine Applications using AI embed the AI model in a framework that interfaces between the model and the rest of the system, providing needed services such as tool calling, context retrieval, etc. Software for early chatbots took user input, called the LLM, and returned the result to the user; essentially just a read-eval-print loop. But, as the capabilities of LLMs have evolved and extension mechanisms, such as MCP were defined, the complexities of the control softwar

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Software commands 40% of cybersecurity budgets as gen AI attacks execute in milliseconds

venturebeat.com Louis Columbus 2025-10-20 07:06:26

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 “With volatility now the norm, security and risk leaders need practical guidance on managing existing spending and new budgetary necessities,” states Forrester’s 2026 Budget Planning Guide, revealing a fundamental shift in how organizations allocate cybersecurity resources. Software now commands 40% of cybersecurity spending, exceeding har

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MSNBC: Whistleblower accuses DOGE team of endangering Social Security data

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-20 13:13:50

Whistleblower accuses DOGE team of endangering critical Social Security data This article features Government Accountability Project whistleblower client Charles Borges and was originally published here. Within weeks of Donald Trump’s second inaugural, members of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency team showed up at the Social Security Administration and started demanding access to files. The efforts were not well received: Michelle King, in her capacity as the acting Social Securi

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SSA Whistleblower’s Resignation Email Mysteriously Disappeared From Inboxes

wired.com Makena Kelly 2025-10-20 14:49:36

On Friday, the Social Security Administration’s chief data officer, Chuck Borges, sent an email to agency staff claiming that he was forcibly removed from his position after filing a whistleblower complaint this week accusing the agency of mishandling sensitive agency data. Minutes after the email went out, it disappeared from employee inboxes, two SSA sources tell WIRED. “I am regretfully and involuntarily leaving my position at the Social Security Administration (SSA),” Borges wrote in the re

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Battlefield 6 dev apologizes for requiring Secure Boot to power anti-cheat tools

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-21 06:42:13

Earlier this month, EA announced that players in its Battlefield 6 open beta on PC would have to enable Secure Boot in their Windows OS and BIOS settings. That decision proved controversial among players who weren't able to get the finicky low-level security setting working on their machines and others who were unwilling to allow EA's anti-cheat tools to once again have kernel-level access to their systems. Now, Battlefield 6 technical director Christian Buhl is defending that requirement as so

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WhatsApp patches vulnerability exploited in zero-day attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-21 14:31:23

WhatsApp has patched a security vulnerability in its iOS and macOS messaging clients that was exploited in targeted zero-day attacks. The company says this zero-click flaw (tracked as CVE-2025-55177) affects WhatsApp for iOS prior to version 2.25.21.73, WhatsApp Business for iOS v2.25.21.78, and WhatsApp for Mac v2.25.21.78. "Incomplete authorization of linked device synchronization messages in WhatsApp [..] could have allowed an unrelated user to trigger processing of content from an arbitrar

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Elon Musk Hopes to Wriggle His Way Out of Allegations He Duped Twitter Investors

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2025-10-21 13:50:48

Elon Musk’s lawyers are seeking to get a lawsuit from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) against the Tesla CEO and X owner tossed out. The case, filed right before President Donald Trump took office this year, centers on Musk’s purchases of Twitter stock before his eventual takeover of the social network in 2022. The SEC alleges that Musk cheated investors by quietly amassing more than a 5% stake in Twitter without disclosing it within the regulated time frame. By law, once someo

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Microsoft says recent Windows update didn't kill your SSD

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-21 22:21:27

Microsoft has found no link between the August 2025 KB5063878 security update and customer reports of failure and data corruption issues affecting solid-state drives (SSDs) and hard disk drives (HDDs). Redmond first told BleepingComputer last week that it is aware of users reporting SSD failures after installing this month's Windows 11 24H2 security update. In a subsequent service alert seen by BleepingComputer, Redmond said that it was unable to reproduce the issue on up-to-date systems and b

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How I completed my ultimate smart home setup with this tablet hub (and why it works)

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-10-22 06:45:00

Eufy Security E10 Smart Display ZDNET's key takeaways The Eufy Security E10 Smart Display is available for $200. This smart display shows you the history and current status of your security system and works as a control panel with real-time alerts. The E10 Smart Display only works with Eufy Security devices, so it's not compatible with other security cameras or meant to be a smart home hub. $199.99 at Amazon Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. I've had an Eufy Security syst

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Musk files to dismiss lawsuit over his purchase of Twitter shares

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-10-22 15:09:32

Musk files to dismiss lawsuit over his purchase of Twitter shares Musk's lawyers, filing shortly before the court's deadline for his response, called the lawsuit "a waste of this Court's time and taxpayer resources". It said this had allowed him to save about $150m (£123m) by purchasing shares in Twitter - which he bought outright months later and renamed X - at "artificially low prices". The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said in a January complaint that Musk failed to disclose

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Do you really need smart home display hub? I tried one, and it made a big difference

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-10-22 12:00:17

Eufy Security E10 Smart Display ZDNET's key takeaways The Eufy Security E10 Smart Display is available for $200. This smart display shows you the history and current status of your security system and works as a control panel with real-time alerts. The E10 Smart Display only works with Eufy Security devices, so it's not compatible with other security cameras or meant to be a smart home hub. $199.99 at Amazon Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. I've had an Eufy Security syst

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Unpacking Passkeys Pwned: Possibly the most specious research in decades

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-24 05:00:10

Don’t believe everything you read—especially when it’s part of a marketing pitch designed to sell security services. The latest example of the runaway hype that can come from such pitches is research published today by SquareX, a startup selling services for securing browsers and other client-side applications. It claims, without basis, to have found a “major passkey vulnerability” that undermines the lofty security promises made by Apple, Google, Microsoft, and thousands of other companies tha

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7 rules to follow for the best home security camera footage (and places to avoid setup)

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2025-10-24 20:00:24

Maria Diaz/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. If you're a subscriber to the Nextdoor app, you've seen plenty of footage of prowling ne'er-do-wells caught in the eye of a video doorbell or home security camera. Hopefully, you don't have your own first-hand experience with suspicious characters milling around your front porch, or far worse. Also: Unplugging these 7 common household devices helped reduce my electricity bills For good reason, security cameras continue to

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Pausing Insect Activity

news.ycombinator.com Ulkar Aghayeva 2025-10-21 23:23:08

For all known life forms, activity is punctuated by periods of rest. Sleep may be the most familiar, but many other distinct dormant states occur on longer timescales, from weeks to months on end. Such suspended animation has garnered many different names: hibernation and torpor (in mammals and birds), brumation (in reptiles), diapause and quiescence (in insects and nematodes), aestivation (summer dormancy in vertebrates and invertebrates), hypobiosis, cryptobiosis, and latent life (in microorga

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Mosyle identifies new Mac malware that evades detection through fake PDF conversion tool

9to5mac.com Arin Waichulis 2025-10-26 10:31:55

Mosyle, a leader in Apple device management and security, has exclusively revealed to 9to5Mac details on a new Mac malware strain, dubbed “JSCoreRunner”. The zero-day threat evaded all detections on VirusTotal at the time of discovery, spreading through a malicious PDF conversion site called fileripple[.]com to trick users into downloading what appears to be a harmless utility. Free tools that promise quick file conversions for HEIC and WebP files, PDFs, and Word docs have become prolific onlin

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Why zero trust is never 'done' and is an ever-evolving process

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-26 14:15:25

Picture this scenario: Six months after celebrating their "zero trust transformation," a financial services firm gets hit with a devastating breach. Attackers waltzed through a supply chain vulnerability in a third-party API, bypassing all those carefully configured identity controls . The firm ticked every checkbox and met every requirement - yet here they are, scrambling to contain customer data exposure. But wasn’t zero trust supposed to protect them? The truth is zero trust isn’t a project

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Whistleblower says DOGE officials copied Social Security numbers

news.ycombinator.com Geoff Brumfiel 2025-10-27 06:50:24

Whistleblower says Trump officials copied millions of Social Security numbers toggle caption Wesley Lapointe/The Washington Post/Getty Images A whistleblower says that a former senior DOGE official now at the Social Security Administration copied the Social Security numbers, names and birthdays of over 300 million Americans to a private section of the agency's cloud. That private cloud environment is accessible by other former DOGE employees at the SSA and is lacking adequate security, the whi

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DOGE accused of copying entire Social Security database to insecure cloud system

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-27 13:04:23

A Social Security Administration (SSA) official alleged in a whistleblower disclosure that DOGE officials created "a live copy of the country's Social Security information in a cloud environment that circumvents oversight." Chuck Borges, the SSA's Chief Data Officer (CDO), "has become aware through reports to him of serious data security lapses, evidently orchestrated by DOGE officials, currently employed as SSA employees, that risk the security of over 300 million Americans' Social Security da

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Arlo Announces a New Lineup of AI-Powered Security Cameras

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-27 17:25:06

Arlo's next generation of security cameras is officially here, and they're all in on AI. New versions of the Arlo Essential, Pro and Ultra cameras integrate with Arlo Intelligence features. The Arlo Essential cameras are some of the company's lowest-priced offerings, because they're basic security cameras without any bells and whistles. Arlo provides different options for 2K resolution or HD recording and plug-in or battery-operated variants. Read more: Best Home Security Cameras of 2025: My P

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Latest Tech News

No, Google did not warn 2.5 billion Gmail users to reset passwords

'2.5 billion Gmail users at risk'? Entirely false, says Google

TransUnion data breach hits millions, but Gmail security reports are false

Unfortunately, the ICEBlock app is activism theater

Europol said ChatControl doesn't go far enough; they want to retain data forever

Google debunks claims of major Gmail security alert

The time picker on the iPhone's alarm app isn't circular, it's just a long list

Why Is Tech Worried When Stocks Like Chevron Drop On Global Oil Worries?

Google Investors Surprisingly Chill About Major Data Breach

Apple @ Work: SAP updates Privileges with new tools for managing admin rights on macOS

New interpretations suggest the "heat death" hypothesis might not hold (2023)

AI models need a virtual machine

Software commands 40% of cybersecurity budgets as gen AI attacks execute in milliseconds

MSNBC: Whistleblower accuses DOGE team of endangering Social Security data

SSA Whistleblower’s Resignation Email Mysteriously Disappeared From Inboxes

Battlefield 6 dev apologizes for requiring Secure Boot to power anti-cheat tools

WhatsApp patches vulnerability exploited in zero-day attacks

Elon Musk Hopes to Wriggle His Way Out of Allegations He Duped Twitter Investors

Microsoft says recent Windows update didn't kill your SSD

How I completed my ultimate smart home setup with this tablet hub (and why it works)

Musk files to dismiss lawsuit over his purchase of Twitter shares

Do you really need smart home display hub? I tried one, and it made a big difference

Unpacking Passkeys Pwned: Possibly the most specious research in decades

7 rules to follow for the best home security camera footage (and places to avoid setup)

Pausing Insect Activity

Mosyle identifies new Mac malware that evades detection through fake PDF conversion tool

Why zero trust is never 'done' and is an ever-evolving process

Whistleblower says DOGE officials copied Social Security numbers

DOGE accused of copying entire Social Security database to insecure cloud system

Arlo Announces a New Lineup of AI-Powered Security Cameras

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