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Former Meta security manager accuses Greece of spying on her phone

Artemis Seaford, a former security policy manager at Meta, has filed a lawsuit against Greece’s national intelligence service for wiretapping and hacking her phone in 2021. 

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How hackers hijacked a popular tech YouTube channel

YouTube channel Linus Tech Tips and two related channels within the same media group were recently taken over by hackers and deleted. For several hours chaos broke out across the Linus Media Group, which has a combined followership of over 25 million people. The hackers did everything from advertising dodgy cryptocurrency to mass deleting videos, eventually resulting in YouTube terminating the channels due to breaching its terms of service.

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Telehealth startup Cerebral shared patient data with social media

While online applications and services have made people’s lives easier in myriad ways, the convenience can come with downsides, particularly when it comes to user privacy and data collection. Telehealth, in particular, has helped make healthcare more accessible to so many people, especially during lockdown periods of the COVID-19 pandemic. Because of this, people could attend therapy and refill prescriptions from the safety of their own homes. However, users using such platforms have much to lose if their data is compromised. 

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Infamous BreachForums shut down after owner arrest

Notorious Dark Web hacker forum BreachForums was swiftly taken offline following the arrest of the owner and administrator. 21-year-old Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, known on the site as “Pompompurin,” was arrested by FBI cybersecurity investigators at his New York home on March 15th. A few days later, the new admin known as “Baphomet” announced they would shut down the site.

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