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X to test $1 annual subscription
Social media platform X will test a new subscription model under which it will charge $1 annual fee for basic features.
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Former Navy IT manager sentenced for stealing 9,000 identities
Marquis Hooper, a 32-year-old former Navy IT Manager from Selma, California, was sentenced to five years and five months in prison for hacking a computer database that contained personally identifiable information (PII) and selling it on the dark web for $160,000 in Bitcoin.
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ServiceNow leak: thousands of companies at risk
Digital business platform ServiceNow has a data vulnerability that could have compromised its users for years, a cybersecurity expert warns.
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Signal denies rumors of zero-day bug
After rumors about an alleged zero-day security vulnerability spread online over the weekend, Signal, the privacy-oriented messenger, has declared it’s found no evidence that the threat is real.
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Fairfax data breach exposes medical records
US healthcare company Fairfax has disclosed a data breach that may have exposed the medical records of up to nearly a quarter of a million patients.
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EU opens probe into X in test of new tech rules
EU industry chief Thierry Breton on Thursday opened an investigation into Elon Musk's X, the first under new EU tech rules.
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Tony Parker’s ASVEL allegedly breached, player data stolen
ASVEL Basket, a French basketball team owned by the former NBA star Tony Parker, has been claimed by a ransomware cartel. The attackers say that they’ve taken player data and confidential agreements.
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MOVEit saga drags on as credit union discloses 100K victims
University Federal Credit Union has admitted a data breach related to this year’s hack of the third-party MOVEit software.
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Israel’s government and media websites hit with cyberattacks
Hacktivists, including cyber gangs such as the infamous Killnet, a Russian hacker group, are targeting various Israeli organizations following deadly attacks by Hamas militants.
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Global scam on WhatsApp and Telegram costs job seekers over $100M
Scammers allegedly linked to China are impersonating thousands of companies to steal money from job seekers.
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Fiserv attack exposes 837K Flagstar Bank clients
Flagstar Bank’s vendor, the financial technology giant Fiserv, has fallen victim to the MOVEit Transfer attacks, exposing the personal details of hundreds of thousands of the bank’s customers.
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Persistent threat actor reappears after FBI takedown of QakBot
Just a few weeks ago, US law enforcement said that it dismantled a prominent decade-old malware platform with ties to Russia. But the cybercriminal group using the loader is still active, researchers have now said.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook most popular of Big Tech employees, X's CEO Linda Yaccarino, not so much
Apple employees give CEO Tim Cook the thumbs up in a new survey ranking the most popular CEOs among its workers, while X’s (formally Twitter) new kid on the block, CEO Linda Yaccarino, rates deep in the single digits.
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Why Bing Chat and other AI models answering political queries is a bad idea
A new study suggests that using large language models like Bing Chat or ChatGPT as a source of information for deciding how to vote is actually quite dangerous.
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Russia mistakenly doxxes its own secret bases and spies
A relatively obscure website of the Moscow City Hall has given away a list of “special consumers” on the Russian electricity grid. It includes facilities maintained by the country’s military and security agencies.
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PlayStation maker victimized in MOVEit Transfer breach
Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE), a Sony branch responsible for developing PlayStation consoles, said that thousands of its former employees had their data exposed in the largest breach of 2023.
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Tesla victory, 'Autopilot' class action lawsuit is a no-go
A California judge grants Tesla a significant victory after ruling that a class action suit sought against the electric car manufacturer for false claims about its “self-driving” Autopilot feature can only proceed through individual arbitration.
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Hackers attack US healthcare giant, more than 190K people affected
Prospect Medical Holdings admits that it was hacked, with hundreds of thousands of employees and patients left affected. Prospect Medical...
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100K exposed systems endanger power, traffic, water utilities
Nearly 100,000 exposed industrial control systems (ICSs) allow attackers to take over physical infrastructure such as power grids, traffic light systems, security, and water systems, researchers say.
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LastPass employees and customers targeted in “pervasive” phishing campaign
A convincing phishing campaign has targeted LastPass in two waves.
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