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Assange walks free: what happens to him, WikiLeaks, and free speech now?
World’s leaker-in-chief Julian Assange has been released from a British prison and is expected to plead guilty to violating US espionage law before returning home to native Australia. Why now and what happens now?
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Deepfake Musk crypto “giveaways” resurface on Youtube
This problem may be many years old, but crypto scammers still find a way to stream for hours on YouTube using stolen celebrity identities, all while collecting thousands of dollars.
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Luxury retailer Neiman Marcus discloses data breach, Snowflake's name comes up
Names, contact details, dates of birth, and gift card data of Neman Marcus clients have been compromised in a third-party breach.
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CDK to pay ransom attacker BlackSuit as US car dealers struggle
Auto dealers across North America continue to grapple with the fallout from last week's cyberattack on automotive software provider CDK Global. This as the BlackSuit hacker group steps forward with a reported $10 million ransom demand.
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LockBit ransomware gang claims to have hacked US Federal Reserve
The US Federal Reserve Board of Governors – the central banking system of the United States – was named by the notorious LockBit ransomware group over the weekend, though some insiders are calling it rubbish.
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LockBit in $8M Indonesia ransom demand
A cyber attacker has compromised Indonesia's national data center, disrupting immigration checks at airports, and asked for an $8 million ransom.
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Levi Strauss notifies customers of cyberattack
Personal information, including partial payment details, may have been obtained by bad actors during an automated credential-stuffing attack on Levi’s online store.
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Santander US reveals employee bank account details stolen
Thousands of Santander’s US-based employees had their bank account information stolen in the recent data breach.
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London hospital attackers started leaking blood test data
Cybercriminals behind attacks disrupting at least five London hospitals leaked nearly 400 gigabytes of data, which reportedly included blood test information.
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Anthropic’s updated mid-size AI model claims the crown
AI startup Anthropic has launched a new large language model (LLM), Claude 3.5 Sonnet, which replaces the previous free tier Claude 3.0 Sonnet. The company claims that this chatbot is currently the most powerful, outperforming even the top-tier models from competitors.
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Popular bubble tea chain Chicha San Chen breached in Singapore
Members of Chicha San Chen are advised to change their passwords as soon as possible, as hackers exposed credentials and personal information on the dark web, the Straits Times reports in Singapore.
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Security firm Accenture breached, claim cybercriminals
Private data allegedly belonging to more than 30,000 employees of multinational IT company Accenture is being sold by cybercriminals. The company claims that only the data of three employees were leaked.
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EU pushes new law to allow bulk scanning of your chat messages
European elections are over, and the European soccer championship is in full swing – why not greenlight bulk searches of people’s private communications, even encrypted ones? The proposed EU legislation has activists all over the continent up in arms.
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Advance Auto Parts confirms breach, says it’ll cost millions
American automotive parts giant Advance Auto Parts confirmed that the company’s data was accessed via its third-party.
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Imposter security researcher blamed for stealing $3M from Kraken
Kraken, the US-based cryptocurrency exchange, disclosed a mysterious theft of $3 million in cryptocurrency, blaming hackers who were acting as “security researchers” in a bug bounty program. Imposters alerted about an actual critical vulnerability, but only after profiting from it.
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US car dealerships back to pen and paper after a cyberattack
Car dealerships across the US faced a significant computer system outage due to a cybersecurity incident affecting their software provider, CDK Global.
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Major AI bots, including ChatGPT, freely spread Russian propaganda
A new experiment by NewsGuard has shown that leading AI chatbots, including ChatGPT and Mistral, are rehashing Russian propaganda and serving it to users who are presumably looking for reliable information.
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Circle K Atlanta allegedly breached, data stolen – hackers
Popular convenience store chain Circle K was claimed by a prominent ransomware gang, alleging it stole gigabytes of Circle K Atlanta’s data.
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AI will improve weather forecasting: but what about meteorologists?
Artificial intelligence might soon produce quicker and more accurate weather forecasts, meteorologists in Germany have said in a new research document. But aren’t they digging their own graves?
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Los Angeles United becomes latest US school district to ban smartphones
The Los Angeles United School District (LAUSD) board voted on Tuesday to become the first US school district to ban students from using smartphones while on campus.
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