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Fresh off of its AI Overview fiasco, Google is facing a second leak this week revealing how it collected sensitive data from users from 2013 to 2018. Among the issues were the unintentional recording and saving of audio from around 1,000 children, the leak of users’ addresses from the Waze app, and Google Steet View’s scanning and storage of cars’ license plate numbers.

Beyond issues that could be considered mistakes are much more intentional issues, including using pilfering accounts to leak information. That happened in 2017 when a Google contractor leaked information about Nintendo’s upcoming game Yoshi using administrative privileges to access the company’s YouTube account.

Another major cybersecurity headline from German politics as Cisco announces a patch that addresses a vulnerability in the way the German government used Webex, first reported on May 4. Researchers discovered that simply changing the numbers in a meeting link granted access to the topic, time, and participants in a meeting — including discussions about military activities.

High-ranking officials had personal meeting rooms on Webex that had no password protection, a glaring cybersecurity issue that could have led to the leak of extremely sensitive information. It’s possible that it was exploited. While a link can’t be confirmed, in March, Russia published a German military meeting held on Webex.

Spain-based Santa Barbara Systems was the target of a cyber attack that took its website offline. The company, owned by General Dynamics, is currently preparing Leopard tanks to be deployed in Ukraine.

NoName, a pro-Russian hacking group, claims they carried out the denial-of-service attack against the websites in “russophobic Spain.”

Interesting Read

Ah, the good old days of corded communication! Believe it or not, the landline phone has not disappeared altogether, and it might even be seeing a resurgence according to new data from the National Center for Health Sciences — the meat and potatoes of a recent article by Justinas Vainilavičius writing for Cybernews.

The article is a fascinating look at how wired tech is making a comeback. As it does, one wonders what kind of new (or, really, old) security issues will arise.

Employment Tip: Become a Great Interview

Sometimes, a job interview comes from somebody who knows your field, but often, that’s not the case. For someone in cybersecurity, you’ll want to be able to communicate exactly what you do and how important it is to lay people as well as other experts. If you can express the value you bring to an organization to anybody, then it doesn’t matter who is interviewing you.

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Stay Safe, Stay Secure.

The CybersecurityHQ Team