Major data leaks are becoming a routine of sorts in Brazil, and the government is trying to get a handle of the situation. As the latest major data leak that has exposed more than 102 million consumers was discovered in Brazil. 2

Artificial intelligence company CyberLabs and digital security company Psafe announced a merger, the result of which is now called the CyberLabs Group.

This week’s topics: the hacker behind Brazil’s biggest data leak ever, Huawei expansion plans, and startups in the coronavirus vaccine race.

Cybersecurity insurance coverage will be offered at no extra cost to business customers of PSafe’s enterprise security solution, dfndr enterprise, who have more than 300 protected devices.

The dfndr lab, PSafe‘s laboratory specializing in digital security, discovered a public website where it would be possible to access around 426 million instances of personal data, including as many as 109 million Employer Identification Numbers (EIN) and license plates, in Brazil.

For the diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus infection, different researches sought solutions to identify signs of the disease. Now, Brazilian scientists from the CyberLabs Group have developed an algorithm capable of detecting covid- through a simple audio in which a person is coughing. The team is among the winners of an Interspeech competition 2021 — one of the top speech processing events in the world.