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AT&T says leaked data of 70M people is not from its systems
AT&T says a massive trove of data impacting 71 million people did not originate from its...
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Microsoft again bothers Chrome users with Bing popup ads in Windows
Microsoft is once again harassing Google Chrome users on Windows 10 and Windows 11 with popup...
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International Monetary Fund email accounts hacked in cyberattack
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) disclosed a cyber incident on Friday after unknown attackers breached 11...
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SIM swappers hijacking phone numbers in eSIM attacks
SIM swappers have adapted their attacks to steal a target's phone number by porting it into...
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Former telecom manager admits to doing SIM swaps for $1k
A former manager at a telecommunications company in New Jersey pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges for...
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Google paid $10M in bug bounty rewards last year
Google awarded $10 million to 632 researchers from 68 countries in 2023 for finding and responsibly...
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QNAP warns of critical auth bypass flaw in its NAS devices
QNAP warns of vulnerabilities in its NAS software products, including QTS, QuTS hero, QuTScloud, and myQNAPcloud,...
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Flipper Zero WiFi attack can unlock and steal Tesla cars
An easy phishing attack using a Flipper Zero device can lead to compromising Tesla accounts, unlocking...
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FBI: U.S. lost record $12.5B to online crime in 2023
FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has released its 2023 Internet Crime Report, which recorded a...
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Windows Kernel bug fixed last month exploited as zero-day since August
Microsoft patched a high-severity Windows Kernel privilege escalation vulnerability in February, six months after being informed...
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Malicious AI models on Hugging Face backdoor users' machines
At least 100 instances of malicious AI ML models were found on the Hugging Face platform,...
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White House urges devs to switch to memory-safe programming languages
The White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) urged tech companies today to switch...
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UnitedHealth confirms Optum hack behind US healthcare billing outage
Healthcare giant UnitedHealth Group confirmed that its subsidiary Optum was forced to shut down IT systems...
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FTC to ban Avast from selling browsing data for advertising purposes
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will order Avast to pay $16.5 million and ban the...
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Bitwarden's new auto-fill option adds phishing resistance
The Bitwarden open-source password management service has introduced a new inline auto-fill menu that addresses the...
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New Google Chrome feature blocks attacks against home networks
Google is testing a new feature to prevent malicious public websites from pivoting through a user's...
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Ubuntu 'command-not-found' tool can be abused to spread malware
A logic flaw between Ubuntu's 'command-not-found' package suggestion system and the snap package repository could enable...
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Hackers used new Windows Defender zero-day to drop DarkMe malware
Microsoft has patched today a Windows Defender SmartScreen zero-day exploited in the wild by a financially...
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UK to replace physical biometric immigration cards with e-visas
By 2025, Britain is set to ditch physical immigration status documents such as Biometric Residence Permits...
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Canada to ban the Flipper Zero to stop surge in car thefts
The Canadian government plans to ban the Flipper Zero and similar devices after tagging them as...
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Americans lost record $10B to fraud in 2023, FTC warns
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says Americans lost over $10 billion to scammers in 2023,...
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Fake LastPass password manager spotted on Apple's App Store
LastPass is warning that a fake copy of its app is being distributed on the Apple...