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Hacker who targeted over 500 Snapchat accounts sentenced to over 6 years in prison

Svara used two-factor authentication to lock victims out of their Snapchat accounts.
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North Korea arrests former cyber elite for hacking state banks

The suspects were former cyber operatives from North Korea's main military intelligence agency, according to reports.
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Man who advertised bank fraud on Instagram gets 9 years in prison


Vatican prayer app exposed names and emails of 700,000+ users

The vulnerability was a simple security bug.
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DentaQuest breach notices sent to 15 million after health data theft

Hackers accessed insurance, treatment, and personal data months before victims were finally notified.
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Instagram now banning Meta glasses creeps

Harassing strangers with AI glasses could now get your Instagram account banned.
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Asmongold rips Hasan Piker as he dresses like Mao Zedong for Democrat event


“Trash streamers” face prison time in Poland

Some people think “trash streaming” shows the real world.
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Washington doesn’t want Europe to talk about American tech “kill switch”

Fight digital sovereignty initiatives, US diplomats told.
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Anthropic will donate $20 million in support of AI regulation

Claude maker has warned AI could get out of hand.
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Thanks to ACLU, US lawyers will know if police used surveillance tech on their clients

Surveillance technology creates and perpetuates injustices across the legal system in the US, the ACLU says
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"Roadmap to murder:" engineer spent 6 months asking AI how to kill


Republican US senator accuses Zuckerberg of trying to destroy Meta whistleblower

Josh Hawley thinks Meta is essentially attempting to bankrupt Sarah Wynn-Williams.
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Colombia's energy giant Ecopetrol says hackers stole data from 3,300 accounts, demanding ransom

Hackers are threatening to publish the data if their demands aren't met.
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Medical giant Abbott investigates two cyber incidents as ShinyHunters claims breach

One threat actor claims patient data. Another says it stole technical secrets.
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Android bug lets Gemini send messages without unlocking your phone

Your locked phone wasn't as locked as you thought.
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Meta, Anthropic in talks for potential $10 billion compute lease deal, source says

The discussions are in their early stages, but the deal could be worth up to $10 billion over two years.
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Hackers breach Clover Health employee accounts

It remains unclear what information, if any, had been compromised.
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Kenya investigates breach of president's website

Hackers demanded a ransom of approximately 41 million Kenyan shillings (about $317,000) to bring the site back up.
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New GoSerpent malware spies on targets in Southeast Asia for months

The malware targeted government and diplomatic entities in Southeast Asia.
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