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Websites of airlines, banks, tech companies back online after brief global outage

Several airlines, banks, and technology websites were coming back online on Thursday afternoon after a brief outage, the third such...
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Russia disconnected from global internet in tests

Russia managed to disconnect from the global internet during tests in June and July, the RBC daily reported on Thursday,...
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Thousands of Humana customers have their medical data leaked online by threat actors

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An SQL database containing what appears to be highly sensitive health insurance data of more than 6,000 patients has been...
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French prosecutor opens probe after Pegasus spyware complaint

The Paris prosecutor's office opened a probe on Tuesday into allegations by investigative news website Mediapart and two of its...
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U.S., allies accuse China of global cyber hacking campaign

The United States and a coalition of allies on Monday accused China's Ministry of State Security of a global cyber...
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New leak reveals: global governments exploit the Pegasus cyber-surveillance tool

NSO Group says that its Pegasus spyware is merely a tool for investigating terrorism and crime and leaves no trace...
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U.S. offers $10 million for tips on foreign hackers

The U.S. is offering $10 million for information that can help identify or locate threat actors acting on behalf of...
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Ransomware gang REvil's websites become unreachable

Websites run by the ransomware gang REvil suddenly became unreachable on Tuesday, sparking widespread speculation that the group had been...
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Google fined $593 million by French regulator

France has fined Alphabet Inc's Google $592.75 million over news copyright row, AFP news agency reported on Tuesday.  Google was...
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Spreadshirt hack: attackers gained access to user data, including bank details and PayPal addresses

On Thursday, Spread Group warned their users of a “security incident where an unauthorized party attempted to access platform.”...
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Threat actors scrape 600 million LinkedIn profiles and are selling the data online - again

For the third time in the past four months, LinkedIn seems to have experienced another massive data scrape conducted by...
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Ransom demand for Friday's cyberattack a whopping $70 million - blog

Hackers behind a major cyberattack posted a demand on a blog usually used by the REvil gang, a group of cybercriminals with...
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Microwave can cause havoc on your WiFi signal

Slow WiFi at home? Don’t rush to turn off your VPN or restart your router. The truth is, it could...
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Service linked to ransomware cartels, DoubleVPN, has its servers seized by Europol

Europol, the European police coordinating agency, and law enforcement agencies in the US and Canada seized the web domains and...
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Freshly scraped LinkedIn data of 88,000 US business owners shared online

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About a week after scraped data from more than 700 million LinkedIn profiles were put for sale online, it seems...
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Salary growth lags for scarce cyber professionals, ‘robot overlord’ among new job titles - report

Businesses are in dire need of gatekeepers against a flood of cyber-crime. Yet, while the volume and scale of cyber-attacks...
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New ransomware group Hive leaks Altus group sample files

On June 14th, Altus Group, a commercial real estate software solutions company, has announced that its data was breached. A...
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UK to investigate Amazon and Google over fake reviews

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has opened a formal probe into Amazon and Google over concerns that they...
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Swedish COVID-19 lab with millions of test results breached

IT solutions provider from Sweden reported it had detected hackers peaking inside a database for COVID-19 test results. Over three...
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Europe saw increased roaming speeds, Estonia came as the biggest winner with a 55% gain

As countries reopen, travel is expected to pick up with people using their phones abroad more than they did during...
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