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Cybersecurity Weekly: Capital One fined, Qualcomm bugs, HaveIBeenPwned open sourced
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Capital One fined for 2019 data breach affecting 106 million users. Nearly 50% of all smartphones affected by Qualcomm Snapdragon bugs. Have I Been Pwned code base goes open source. All this, and more, in this week’s edition of Cybersecurity Weekly.
1. Capital One fined for 2019 data breach affecting 106 million users
A United States regulator fined the credit card provider Capital One Financial Corp $80 million over last year’s data breach that exposed the personal information of more than 100 million credit card applicants of Americans. Besides credit card information, the hacker also managed to steal approximately 140,000 Social Security numbers.
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2. Nearly 50% of all smartphones affected by Qualcomm Snapdragon bugs
Several security vulnerabilities have been found in Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Digital Signal Processor chip. This could allow attackers to take control of more than 40% of all smartphones without user interaction, spy on their users and create unremovable malware capable of evading detection.
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3. Have I Been Pwned code base goes open source
In a personal blog post, HaveIBeenPwned.com’s creator Trow Hunt announced that he is open sourcing his code base.This comes after a failed attempt to auction the site over the past few months. Hunt says in his post that transparency and community support were also big drivers of the transition to open source.
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