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Meat supplier JBS admits paying hackers a ransom of $11 million
The world’s largest meat processing company claims to have paid Russian-speaking hackers millions in bitcoin to put an end to...
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Cybercrime: it will get worse before it gets better
Online crime has been increasing by orders of magnitude for years now. Modern automation capabilities increasingly used by threat actors...
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Email vendor for the U.S. House hit by a ransomware attack
A company used by the U.S. House was hit with a ransomware attack. Chamber’s Chief Administrative Officer (CAO), Catherine Szpindor,...
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Digital downsides: 5 ways technology makes our lives harder
Owning a pocket-fitted supercomputer is an advantage that would make our ancestors envy the bone. There are two sides to...
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Clearview AI hit with massive legal complaint by privacy watchdogs
Regulators have three months to respond to the complaint by Privacy International and others. The data harvesting practices of American...
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Dark side of encrypted chat apps: market for counterfeit goods and hacking tools
Encrypted chat apps have been instrumental in subverting authoritarian regimes. However, because of their private nature, cybercriminals exploit them to...
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Colonial Pipeline hack: DarkSide’s claim to be apolitical doesn’t carry much weight
The DarkSide hackers behind the Colonial Pipeline attack are manifesting themselves as robin hoods, claiming to give some of the...
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EU regulator investigates Facebook for its 533M users’ data leak
An Irish regulator said on Tuesday it is investigating a recent Facebook data leak when 533M users’ data, such as...
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Remote employees might be an easier target for cybercriminals in 2021
A spike in cybercrime that we faced in 2020 might repeat itself in 2021, only with more intensity, experts of...
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We may be closer to cyberwar than ever before, study about nation-states concludes
“We may be at far greater risk from the internet than was ever suspected,” Michail McGuire, senior lecturer of criminology,...
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Scraped data of 500 million LinkedIn users being sold online, 2 million records leaked as proof
We updated our leak checker database with more than 780,000 email addresses associated with this leak...
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Facebook data leak - 533M Facebook users' personal data leaked online
A leaker says they are offering information on more than 500 million Facebook users - including phone numbers and other...
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What was so striking to Microsoft’s president about SolarWinds and Exchange Server attacks?
Basic cybersecurity concepts could have prevented or at least substantially reduced the risk of being penetrated during the recent SolarWinds...
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NFT artwork by humanoid robot sells at auction for nearly $700,000
A digital artwork by humanoid robot Sophia was sold at auction on Thursday for $688,888 in the form of a...
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Patched Microsoft Exchange Servers give a false sense of security, says CISA’s Brandon Wales
Weeks after software bugs were first uncovered by Microsoft, thousands of Exchange Servers are still unpatched. But even updated systems...
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62,000 Microsoft Exchange Servers potentially left unpatched, weeks after software bugs were first uncovered
A number of entities in the US and worldwide remain vulnerable to software bugs that were reported by Microsoft weeks...
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Microsoft in talks to acquire Discord for more than $10 billion
Microsoft Corp is in talks to buy messaging platform Discord Inc for more than $10 billion, Bloomberg News reported, citing...
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U.S. Supreme Court rebuffs Facebook appeal in user tracking lawsuit
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned away Facebook Inc's bid to pare back a $15 billion class action lawsuit...
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Swiss hacker indicted after claiming credit for breaching Nissan, Intel
A Swiss computer hacker who has claimed credit for helping steal or distribute proprietary data from Nissan Motor Co, Intel...
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Google’s privacy push draws U.S. antitrust scrutiny
Google's plan to block a popular web tracking tool called "cookies" is a source of concern for U.S. Justice Department...
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