Steve D. Ballantyne

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A nearly 50 year old dude, with nearly 30 years of marriage, and nearly 20 years working for the same community hospital. A former PC builder and servicer, Instructor, Network Security Analyst, and now a Cybersecurity specialist.

#cybersecurity #healthcare #paloalto #crowdstrike #cissp

Steve D. BallantyneFeb 7, 2025

Meta AI isn't up to talking about how it was trained using stolen books.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/meta-torrented-over-81-7tb-of-pirated-books-to-train-ai-authors-say/

#ai #security

“Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right”: Meta emails unsealed

Meta's alleged torrenting and seeding of pirated books complicates copyright case.

Ars Technica
Steve D. BallantyneJan 20, 2025

Basically by registering the domain name of a dead company - you can become the master of it's "left behind" Google Workspace data.

https://www.scworld.com/analysis/millions-of-online-accounts-tied-to-failed-startups-can-be-taken-over-without-a-password

#Hacking #Newhere

Millions of online accounts tied to failed startups can be taken over without a password

Dormant online accounts created by employees at failed companies that used Google SSO can be hijacked by anyone who buys expired domain names, a researcher said at the ShmooCon hacker conference.

SC Media