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Fahmida Y. Rashid

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Fahmida brings over a decade of IT security news reporting along with ten years of network administration and software development to Decipher. Every security story has a human face, and her goal is to bring those stories to light. As the senior managing editor of Decipher, she will focus on ways security can impact how people live, work, and play. She enjoys working on stories that speak to those outside the security industry, highlighting the intersection of security and other technology areas. Over the years, she has seen enough to make her overzealous about her personal threat-model, but she doesn’t hold it against anyone for having a more relaxed worldview.

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352 articles by Fahmida Y. Rashid

Medical Data Leaks Linked to Hardcoded Credentials in Code

Data of more than 150,000 to 200,000 patient were exposed in at least nine GitHub repositories—the result of improper access controls and hardcoded credentials in source code, according to a DataBreaches.net.

Data Breaches, Credentials, Access Controls

EU Delays GDPR Decision in Twitter Case

Irish privacy regulators are still working with other European Union data protection authorities to hammer out the final decision of its GDPR case against Twitter over a 2018 security incident.

GDPR

GDPR Lawsuit Targets Oracle, Salesforce Use of AdTech Cookies

A consumer privacy campaign group, The Privacy Collective, has filed a lawsuit in Amsterdam against Salesforce and Oracle for allegedly violating the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation over the companies' use of cookies and real-time bidding.

GDPR

Researchers Develop Attacks Targeting End-to-End Encryption in Emails

A group of academic researchers have developed practical attacks targeting two widely used end-to-end encryption schemes for email, which could lead to man-in-the-middle decryption attacks and exfiltration of private keys.

Encryption, End to End Encryption

Cryptomining Botnet Steals AWS Credentials

TeamTNT, a crypto-mining botnet, is stealing Amazon Web Services credentials from infected Docker and Kubernetes servers.

Cryptomining