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Last Friday, Marriott sent out millions of emails warning of a massive data breach — some 500 million guest reservations had been stolen from its Starwood database. One problem: the email sender’s domain didn’t look like it came from Marriott at all. Marriott sent its notification email from “email-marriott.com,” which is registered to a third […] Source: Marriott’s breach response is so bad, security experts are filling in the gaps — at their own expense

Suspected North Korean APT uses Google Chrome extension to infect victims in the academic sector. Source: Cyber-espionage group uses Chrome extension to infect victims | ZDNet

Indian police raid 26 call centers, make 63 arrests. Source: After Microsoft complaints, Indian police arrest tech support scammers at 26 call centers | ZDNet

Since 2015, AWS has had a team of solution architects working with customers to make sure they are using AWS services in a way that meets best practices around a set of defined criteria. Today, the company announced a new Well Architected tool that helps customers do this themselves in an automated way without the […] Source: New AWS tool helps customers understand best cloud practices