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Amazon's Alexa tasked a 10-year-old with a lethal challenge

The child's mother was furious with the digital assistant nudging her child to stick a metal item into the power...
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Amazon restores services after power outage hits data center

Several popular services like Hulu, Slack and epic games have returned to normal after Amazon restored the issues at its...
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Apache found critical bugs in httpd web server

Apache, which name has been in the news for the past two weeks due to the severe vulnerability in the...
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Novel Abcbot starts targeting CSPs, a signal of a future DDoS attack

Malicious shell script targets insecure cloud instances on Tencent, Baidu, and Alibaba cloud, removing competing threat actors and connecting to...
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Most corporate networks can be breached in two days - research

It takes a mere couple of days to breach the network perimeter, and in 100% of the cases, researchers could...
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Facebook exposes mercenary spy firms that targeted 50,000 people

Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc is calling out half a dozen private surveillance companies for hacking or other abuses, accusing...
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Data of 80,000 Australian public sector employees compromised in a cyberattack

Personal information, such as banking details, home addresses, and tax file numbers of more than 80,000 South Australian state workers,...
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Kronos, major HR and payroll service provider, hit with ransomware, warns of a long outage

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Kronos, a cloud-based HR management company, announced it was hit by a ransomware attack. Restoring operations could take 'weeks,' the...
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Log4j vulnerability, a bombshell zero-day exploit with global impact

Multiple enterprises like Apple, Amazon, Twitter, Steam, and thousands more are likely vulnerable to exploits targeting Log4j vulnerability. Others can...
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Amazon’s Web Services outage affects major sites and smart home devices

Amazon Web Services suffered from a massive outage on Tuesday, blocking users from accessing a huge variety of sites and...
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Russia ratchets up internet crackdown with block of privacy service Tor

Russia stepped up state oversight of internet activity on Wednesday by blocking the website of privacy service Tor, with the...
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Google takes action to disrupt sophisticated Glupteba botnet

Glupteba targets Windows machines and protects itself using blockchain technology. According to Google, the Glupteba botnet currently involves approximately one...
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Russia fines Google over content, bigger penalty looms

Russia fined Alphabet's Google 9 million roubles ($121,000), a Moscow court said on Tuesday, in the latest in a string...
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NSO Group's spyware used to hack US State Department iPhones

Troubles mount for the recently sanctioned Israeli-based NSO Group as new software use cases against US personnel come to light....
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Over 50,000 European business users exposed in a data leak

Buyer names, delivery addresses, ordered items, and other sensitive information exposed in over 300,00 leaked records.Security researchers at Safety Detectives...
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A glitch in the Revolut banking app sparked fears of a hack

Users complained their in-app profile picture changed to one showing a random person, causing speculations over a hacking attempt.Numerous social...
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Data of 400,000 patients stolen in Planned Parenthood LA chapter hack

The Los Angeles chapter of Planned Parenthood (PPLA) issued a data breach notification Wednesday saying that attackers exfiltrated a treasure...
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Fake Apple and Amazon invoices are flooding inboxes

As holiday shopping hits underway, fake invoices are flooding inboxes worldwide. After getting a high-dollar invoice, users panic and are...
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Twitter bans sharing people’s private photos, videos without consent

The social media platform says it will remove private images and videos tweeted by users if reported by the person...
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Got a job without an interview? It’s probably a scam

No matter how good you are at what you do, be suspicious if someone offers you a job without conducting...
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