Zoom received some flak recently for planning to use customer data to train its machine learning models. The reality, however, is that the video conferencing company is not the first, nor will it be the last, to have similar plans.

Researchers have released additional details about the recently patched four vulnerabilities affecting Juniper Networks’ SRX firewalls and EX switches that could allow remote code execution (RCE), as well as a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit.

The UK’s data protection watchdog is urging victims of so-called “text pests” to come forward after revealing that nearly a third (29%) of 18–34-year-olds have had their personal information misused.

“The issue had an impact on a specific portion of our cloud-based infrastructure leading to downtime for a small number of cloud customers,” Leaseweb told customers in an email notification.

The updated software now supports a proof-of-work challenge called EquiX. Designed by Tevador, who developed Monero’s proof-of-work algorithm, it is “a CPU-friendly client puzzle with fast verification and small solution size (16 bytes).

On July 28, KittenSec claimed in a Telegram post to have hacked multiple Romanian government systems and posted a file containing roughly 36 gigabytes of data, including emails, documents, contracts, and healthcare-related data.

The Vulnerability Disclosure Policy (VDP) Platform has seen “tremendous growth” in onboarding 40 agency programs since its launch in July 2021, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said Friday in a news release.

The Lazarus group was associated with a new campaign against healthcare entities in Europe and the U.S. In this campaign, the attackers exploited a ManageEngine ServiceDesk vulnerability (CVE-2022-47966) to distribute the QuiteRAT malware. The malware has many capabilities similar to MagicRAT, another malware from the Lazarus group.

Arion Kurtaj, 18, was deemed by psychiatrists to be unfit to stand trial. Though he could not be found “guilty” of committing the acts with criminal intent, a jury at Southwark Crown Court determined that he was at least the one who carried them out.

The HHS’ Office for Civil Rights said UnitedHealthcare had agreed to settle a case involving potential HIPAA violations related to allegations that the company took six months to fulfill a health plan member’s request to access his PHI.