Dashlane Confirms Hackers Stole Password Vaults, Pentagon Location Tracking, and Hackers Trick Meta's AI

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Dashlane confirms a data breach involving stolen password vaults, while the Pentagon admits to tracking US troops using commercial data.

Dashlane has confirmed hackers stole around 20 encrypted password vaults, and the company is being unusually quiet about how it happened. Plus the Pentagon admits US troops were tracked using commercial location data, Europe accelerates its move away from US tech, and hackers hijacked celebrity Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI support chatbot. 🔎 EasyOptOuts is the easy, affordable, and effective way to automatically remove your data from people search sites: https://easyoptouts.com Thanks to the EasyOptOuts team for sponsoring Surveillance Report! In this episode: Highlight: Dashlane confirms stolen password vaults and the LastPass parallels Pentagon confirms US troops tracked via commercial location data Europe pulls away from US tech: EU Parliament drops Google, Euro-Office launches with Tuta Hackers hijack celebrity Instagram accounts by tricking Meta's AI support chatbot Defense Bulletin: breaches at Carnival Cruise, Charter, 23andMe, Ultrahuman, and more. Threats: actively exploited Android zero-day, Red Hat npm packages backdoored, HTTP/2 Bomb DoS, Signal backup phishing, websites spying via SSD activity. FOSS+ Updates: Tor Browser 15.0.15, Mullvad Android…

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Host: Techlore

Topics covered

• cybersecurity
• data breaches
• location tracking
• social media security
• technology news

Keywords

• Dashlane
• Pentagon
• Meta
• data breach
• location tracking
• Instagram
• cybersecurity
• EasyOptOuts
• Android zero-day

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Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Dashlane, Pentagon, Meta, EU Parliament, Google, Tuta, Carnival Cruise, Charter, 23andMe, Ultrahuman

Products: Tor Browser, Mullvad, Proton Mail, Gmail, Rocky Linux, openSUSE Tumbleweed, NixOS

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