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“Technical Error” Leaks Amazon User Data

Amazon has emailed to some of its customers informing them that its website “inadvertently disclosed [their] name and email address due to a technical error”.

The email from Amazon, which included an HTTP link to its site at the end, read: “Hello, We’re contacting you to let you know that our website inadvertently disclosed your name and email address due to a technical error.

“The issue has been fixed. This is not a result of anything you have done, and there is no need for you to change your password or take any other action. Sincerely, Customer Service.”

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CityFibre Breaks Ground in Stirling Digital Transformation Project

Work has begun in Stirling as CityFibre aims to transform the city into one of Scotland’s leading digital hubs.

Almost every home and business across Stirling will be able to access ultrafast broadband connectivity, which is being delivered through a £10 million investment in partnership with Vodafone.

Households and businesses can expect their full-fibre connection to ‘go live’ in spring 2019, CityFibre said.

Stirling was chosen as one of the first locations in the UK to benefit from this digital transformation project, along with Aberdeen and Edinburgh.

With construction officially underway in the Cambusbarron area, Bannockburn is set to follow in the new year. CityFibre said it also plans to extend its network to Bridge of Allan in due course.

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Parliamentary Committee Urges Theresa May to Appoint Cybersecurity Minister

The joint committee on national security strategy has described the UK’s ministerial oversight of the nation’s cybersecurity as “wholly inadequate.”

The joint committee on national security strategy has said that UK ministers are failing to act with “a meaningful sense of purpose or urgency.”

The comments come amid rising fears of a catastrophic cyber attack on the UK’s critical infrastructure, which is considered to be a top-tier threat.

The committee believes the UK is lagging behind other foreign countries in terms of cybersecurity, while countries such as Russia are expanding their capability to mount disruptive cyber attacks the ministerial oversight at home was “wholly inadequate.”

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Instagram Accidentally Exposed Users’ Passwords

Instagram says it has patched a security issue in its website that exposed some of its users’ passwords in plain text.

The company has contacted affected users warning them of a security bug that resides in a newly offered feature called ‘Download Your Data’.

The feature allows users to download a copy of their data shared on the social media site, including posts, photos and comments, posts.

To prevent unauthorised users from getting their hands on your personal data, the feature asks you to reconfirm your password before downloading the data.

However, the plaintext passwords for some users who had used the Download Your Data feature were included in the URL and also stored on Facebook’s servers due to a security bug that was discovered by the Instagram internal team.

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Betfred Sued After it Refused to Pay Out £1.7m Win and Blamed Computer Glitch

A Betfred customer is taking the bookmaker to court over its refusal to pay a £1.7 million jackpot.

Andy Green hit the jackpot playing Frankie Dettori’s Magic Seven Blackjack. But four days later Betfred contacted him to say it would not pay out because its game had malfunctioned.

Peter Coyle, Green’s lawyer, said the malfunction came from Playtech software and Betfred has “no contractual entitlement” to ask Playtech to disclose evidence of the error.

Betfred offered Green £2,500, plus an additional £60,000 as part of a non-disclosure agreement. The money was rejected.

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Firefox Now Tells You if the Website You’re Visiting Has Suffered a Data Breach

The Firefox Monitor service, introduced in September, now tells you if the website you are visiting has been breached.

The service, available in 26 languages, has a ppop-upnotification if the website you’re visiting was affected by a data breach reported in the previous year.

Nick Nguyen, Mozilla’s VP of Firefox, said: “While using the Firefox Quantum browser, when you land on a site that’s been breached, you’ll get a notification. You can click on the alert to visit Firefox Monitor and scan your email to see whether or not you were involved in that data breach.”

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