Mental Health Apps: Thousands of Flaws

Trump tells diplomats to fight digital sovereignty. DeepSeek allegedly trains on banned Nvidia chips. Google knocks out Gallium. Hackers tamper with patient records in New Zealand. Popular mental health apps leak risk. Wynn confirms a ShinyHunters breach. Telecoms dodge New York cyber rules. Russia targets Telegram’s founder. And a defense insider heads to prison for selling cyber weapons to Moscow. Andrew Dunbar, CISO of Shopify, discusses how identity and trust become the new perimeter and how commerce needs both. Barking backlash brews beneath big-game broadcast.

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Today we are joined by Andrew Dunbar, CISO of Shopify, to discuss how identity and trust become the new perimeter and how commerce needs both to be engineered into the platform.

Selected Reading

Exclusive: US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives (Reuters)

Exclusive: China's DeepSeek trained AI model on Nvidia's best chip despite US ban, official says (Reuters)

Google disrupts Chinese-linked hackers that attacked 53 groups globally (Reuters)

Patient data changed as major NZ health app MediMap hacked (RNZ News)

Android mental health apps with 14.7M installs filled with security flaws (Bleeping Computer)

Wynn Resorts Confirms Cyberattack & Extortion Threat, Claims Data Deleted (Casino.org)

Verizon successfully dodged data security rules from state regulators (Times Union)

Russia opens probe of Telegram chief, claiming app has been used for terrorism (Washington Post) 

Former Defense Contractor Sentenced to 87 Months in Prison for Selling Secrets to Russia: Peter Williams Trade Secrets Case Concludes (TechNadu)

$10,000 bounty offered if you can hack Ring cameras to stop them sharing your data with Amazon (Bitdefender)

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