153M licenses for sale, Anthropic reverses course, Astra enters the red zone
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The episode discusses the sale of 153 million driver's licenses on the dark web, Anthropic's policy change on data retention, and Astra's new cybersecurity capabilities.
Dark web shop stocks 153 million driver's licenses Nexus, a new dark web service, claims it's selling scans of more than 153 million US and Canadian driver's licenses, plus over 10 million ID cards, three million travel and international IDs, and at least 579,000 medical cards. The images appear tied to Louisiana-based IDScan.net, which provides identity verification to retailers, rental-car companies, and others. KrebsOnSecurity matched some records to licenses scanned during Hertz rentals. IDScan says it's investigating and hasn't determined the breach's nature or scope. The FBI's New Orleans office has opened an inquiry. ( KrebsOnSecurity ) Anthropic puts 30-day data retention in reverse After customer pushback, Anthropic is revising a policy that stored 30 days of traffic from its Fable and Mythos models. Under new Enterprise Frontier Safeguards, customers can keep data in their own cloud and block Anthropic employees from reviewing it while automated abuse monitoring continues. Anthropic calls that privacy equivalent to zero data retention. Developed with more than 100 customers, including Salesforce, the system is due later this year. ( CNBC ) Astra enters OpenAI's cyber…
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