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.

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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 audit, Proton Mail's Gmail bridge, Rocky Linux 10.2, openSUSE Tumbleweed, NixOS 26.05

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🔗 SOURCES & LINKS
View all sources here: https://techlore.tech/dashlane-confirms-hackers-stole-password-vaults-pentagon-location-tracking-and-hackers-trick-metas-ai/

⏱️ TIMESTAMPS

(00:00) - WELCOME TO SURVEILLANCE REPORT
(00:56) - DASHLANE LOSES CUSTOMER PASSWORD VAULTS
(06:05) - MILITARY HIT BY THE SURVEILLANCE ECONOMY
(12:55) - OUR SPONSOR: EASYOPTOUTS!
(14:32) - EURO ACCELERATES AWAY FROM BIG TECH
(20:00) - INSTAGRAM ACCOUNTS HACKED WITH META'S AI
(24:00) - DEFENSE BULLETIN: DATA BREACHES
(27:06) - DEFENSE BULLETIN: THREATS
(34:08) - DEFENSE BULLETIN: FOSS+

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