Security
Anonymous: a cult of personality that could soon fail
The term “cult” often leaves a bad taste in the mouth. If someone says you’re in one, it usually triggers some kind of fight-or-flight response, as you either want to disprove the notion, attack the accuser, or just try to ignore the insinuation.
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Tax return scammers flood Google with fake ads
With 146 million US workers lining up for tax refunds this year, scammers are using malicious ads that appear across the top of search engine results to try and con people into parting with their money or data.
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Teen arrested in massive string of swatting attacks
But will the arrest of notorious serial swatter Torswat finally call time on this unpleasant phenomenon?
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3.5M exposed in COVID-19 e-passport leak
Passports, mobile numbers, and email addresses of Indian travelers have been leaked.
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How FBI deleted China malware from US routers
Hundreds of US-based routers were hijacked by malware so they could be used in cyberattacks. But with the court's permission, an FBI cyber squad turned the botnet’s functionality against itself and terminated it.
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Football Australia leak exposes players’ details
Australia’s football governing body has leaked secret keys potentially opening access to 127 buckets of data, including players’ documents.
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Schneider Electric hit by ransom gang
A ransomware attack has struck energy giant Schneider Electric’s Sustainability Business division, hampering access to business platforms and its operations, the company announced.
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Visa sued over ‘Vanilla’ gift card draining scam
Visa was sued on Tuesday by consumers who said the card payments network failed to make prepaid "Vanilla" gift cards less likely to being drained by thieves.
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Data leak at fintech giant reveals staff calling clients ‘idiots’
Direct Trading Technologies, an international fintech company, jeopardized over 300K traders by leaking their sensitive data and trading activity, thereby putting them at risk of an account takeover.
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FBI warns of scammers sending live couriers to collect money
Scammers are now saving their victims the trouble of sending extorted money or shipping precious metals. The FBI warns that criminals arrange for couriers to meet their victims in person, and senior citizens are their prime targets.
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Higher cyber defenses lead to higher ransoms, study finds
Businesses with cybersecurity insurance face significantly higher ransom payments compared to uninsured cases, researchers looking at Dutch victim data have discovered.
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Long passwords won’t protect your accounts, report finds
Longer passwords won’t stop adversaries from accessing your information, a report from Specops Software has found.
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Miracle leak exposes 11 million corporate messages
Miracle Software Systems left an unprotected instance, exposing millions of messages between thousands of corporate users, some of which discussed corporate secrets.
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NCSC warns ransomware attacks to intensify due to AI
The number of cyberattacks will “almost certainly” increase in the next two years as artificial intelligence lowers the entry barrier for less skilled hackers, Britain’s cyber chiefs say..
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3.5M users' dinner habits exposed in data leak
FreshMenu, which delivers food to Bangalore, Mumbai, Gurgaon, and Delhi, has exposed its customer data to the public.
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CISA warns Apple users to update multiple products
Multiple iOS versions running on certain Apple products are at risk from hackers and should be updated now, warns the US Cybersecurity Infrastructure and Security Agency (CISA).
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iPhone users: turn on new security feature
Apple has released a new security feature called Stolen Device Protection – and you should definitely turn it on, experts say.
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Cybercriminals crave cookies, not passwords
All cookies are vulnerable, but they are all it takes to compromise Google or other accounts, Trevor Hilligoss, former FBI digital crime expert and current Vice President of SpyCloud Labs, warns. This was proven by the recently discovered OAuth vulnerability.
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Mother of all breaches reveals 26 billion records: what we know so far
The supermassive leak contains data from numerous previous breaches, comprising an astounding 12 terabytes of information, spanning over a mind-boggling 26 billion records.
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Microsoft suffers Russian fueled nation-state attack
The Russian-backed hacker group Midnight Blizzard was detected trying to infiltrate the tech giant’s corporate systems, Microsoft said in a disclosure report filed with the SEC Friday.
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