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Three API security risks in the wake of the Facebook breach

CTOvision

Facebook recently pledged to improve its security following a lawsuit that resulted from a 2018 data breach. The breach, which was left open for more than 20 months, resulted in the theft of 30 million authentication tokens and almost as much personally identifiable information.

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T-Mobile API Hack Affects Data of 37 Million Customers

SecureWorld News

T-Mobile announced on Thursday that a hacker accessed varying amounts of personal data from 37 million customers from late November 2022 until the malicious activity was detected on January 5th of this year. According to the mobile phone giant, the attacker accessed account information from postpaid and prepaid customers via one of its APIs.

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T-Mobile investigating report of customer data breach that reportedly involves 100 million people

The Verge

T Mobile may have suffered a customer data breach | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. T-Mobile confirmed Sunday that it’s looking into an online forum post that claims to be selling a large trove of its customers’ sensitive data. After reviewing samples of the data, Motherboard reported it appeared authentic. “We

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WAN challenges steer auto-rental firm to SASE

Network World

SASE, pronounced "sassy," blends SD-WAN's network optimization features with security capabilities such as zero-trust authentication, data loss prevention, threat detection, and encryption. Gartner estimates at least 40% of enterprises will have explicit strategies to adopt SASE by 2024, up from less than 1% at the end of 2018.

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Four of the Biggest Financial Data Breaches of 2019

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Four of the Biggest Financial Data Breaches of 2019 - Information Technology Blog. In 2018, this sector reported a whopping 819 incidents, and that figure looks set to rise for 2019 once the statistics are released. A flaw in the back end of the company’s website likely led to the exposure of this data.

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Former Windows chief Terry Myerson is building a health care data startup called Truveta

GeekWire

A Seattle-area startup called Truveta made its existence known for the first time on Thursday, describing an ambitious vision to use data to save lives through new innovations in patient care and therapies. The company joins a growing number of startups and tech giants seeking to use data to transform health care. ”

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Should Data Centers Think?

Cloud Musings

As cloud computing becomes the information technology mainstream, data center technology is accelerating at a breakneck speed. Concepts like software define infrastructure, data center analytics and Nonvolatile Memory Express (NVMe) over Fabrics are changing the very nature of data center management.