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Researcher describes how hundreds of medical imaging servers in India were left unsecured months ago and are still leaving 1M+ medical records exposed (Sai Krishna Kothapalli/InfoSec Write-ups)

{$inline_image} Sai Krishna Kothapalli / InfoSec Write-ups: Researcher describes how hundreds of medical imaging servers in India were left unsecured months ago and are still leaving 1M+ medical records exposed  —  The story behind how I was able to view, edit & delete classified personal information of lakhs of patients all over India Researcher describes

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Researcher describes how hundreds of medical imaging servers in India were left unsecured months ago and are still leaving 1M+ medical records exposed (Sai Krishna Kothapalli/InfoSec Write-ups)

Sai Krishna Kothapalli / InfoSec Write-ups: Researcher describes how hundreds of medical imaging servers in India were left unsecured months ago and are still leaving 1M+ medical records exposed  —  The story behind how I was able to view, edit & delete classified personal information of lakhs of patients all over India Researcher describes how

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Study of kids, aged 4 to 15 in the US, UK, and Spain, finds they spent an average of 85 min/day on YouTube and 80 min/day on TikTok from Feb. 2019-April 2020 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Study of kids, aged 4 to 15 in the US, UK, and Spain, finds they spent an average of 85 min/day on YouTube and 80 min/day on TikTok from Feb. 2019-April 2020  —  A new study on kids’ app usage and habits indicates a major threat to YouTube’s dominance, as kids

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Brave browser is caught revising typed-in domains to companies like Binance with URLs including affiliate referral codes; Brave says it will stop the practice (Robert Stevens/Decrypt)

Robert Stevens / Decrypt: Brave browser is caught revising typed-in domains to companies like Binance with URLs including affiliate referral codes; Brave says it will stop the practice  —  The Chromium-based browser, Brave has been profiting from redirect links to affiliate crypto companies.  —  In brief Brave browser is caught revising typed-in domains to companies

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Airbnb had more US bookings from May 17 to June 3 than during the same period in 2019, as vacation-rental sites see domestic reservations increase globally (Olivia Carville/Bloomberg)

Olivia Carville / Bloomberg: Airbnb had more US bookings from May 17 to June 3 than during the same period in 2019, as vacation-rental sites see domestic reservations increase globally  —  – Weekend getaways are turning into work-from-home respites  — Airbnb hasn’t ruled out an IPO this year, CEO Chesky says Airbnb had more US

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The struggle between real information and fake information is not too different from the fight against spam email, which took a long time but was worth fighting (Om Malik/On my Om)

Om Malik / On my Om: The struggle between real information and fake information is not too different from the fight against spam email, which took a long time but was worth fighting  —  To put it mildly, the last ten days have been tough to watch.  Following the news triggers anger, and it makes

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Israeli court sentences the co-owners of vDOS, a now defunct DDoS-for-hire service, to six months of community service (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: Israeli court sentences the co-owners of vDOS, a now defunct DDoS-for-hire service, to six months of community service  —  The co-owners of vDOS, a now-defunct service that for four years helped paying customers launch more than two million distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) … Israeli court sentences the co-owners of vDOS,

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