On August 15th, 2024 with 0 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: Since last month's blue-screen deluge, CrowdStrike has published analyses of what went wrong and said it hired third-party...
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On August 14th, 2024 with 18 comments
"NIST has formally accepted three algorithms for post-quantum cryptography," writes ancient Slashdot reader jd. "Two more backup algorithms are being worked...
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On August 13th, 2024 with 5 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: Despite a law enforcement takedown six months ago, LockBit 3.0 remains the most prolific encryption and extortion gang, at...
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On August 13th, 2024 with 14 comments
Dutch-based copyright enforcement group BREIN has taken down a large language dataset that was being offered for use in training AI models, the organization...
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On August 12th, 2024 with 24 comments
A co-founder of transparency activism organization Distributed of Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets) was a dark web drug kingpin who ran the successor to the...
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On August 11th, 2024 with 94 comments
The New York Times visits the downtown of one of America's biggest tech cities to explore San Francisco's "Vacant to Vibrant" initiative, where "city and...
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On August 11th, 2024 with 92 comments
Fortune reports that Crowdstrike "is enjoying a moment of strange cultural cachet at the annual Black Hat security conference, as throngs of visitors flock to...
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On August 9th, 2024 with 57 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Security flaws in your computer's firmware, the deep-seated code that loads first when you turn the machine on...
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On August 9th, 2024 with 39 comments
According to Agrarheute, hackers launched a cyberattack on a Swiss farmer's computer system, disrupting the flow of vital data from a milking robot....
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On August 9th, 2024 with 27 comments
Bruce66423 writes: Sellafield [U.K.'s largest nuclear site] has apologised after pleading guilty to criminal charges relating to a string of cybersecurity...
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On August 9th, 2024 with 35 comments
Microsoft researchers said on Friday that Iran government-tied hackers tried breaking into the account of a "high ranking official" on the U.S. presidential...
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On August 9th, 2024 with 98 comments
Signal developer Moxie Marlinspike criticized early encryption software's user-unfriendly design at Black Hat 2024, admitting he and others initially failed to...
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On August 9th, 2024 with 60 comments
Security researcher Grant Smith uncovered a large-scale smishing scam where scammers posing as the USPS tricked victims into providing their credit card...
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On August 8th, 2024 with 21 comments
ADT confirmed this week that it was recently hacked, compromising some customer data. From a report: The home security company did not say when the cyberattack...
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On August 8th, 2024 with 61 comments
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has agreed to reserve the .internal top-level domain so it can become the equivalent to using...
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On August 7th, 2024 with 121 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: The government of Australia's most populous state ordered all public employees to work from...
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On August 7th, 2024 with 45 comments
Things aren't working out well for Humane, a heavily-funded startup that launched an eponymous AI device earlier this year. Despite significant funding from...
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On August 7th, 2024 with 80 comments
Disney Plus will soon no longer let you share your password with people outside your household. From a report: During an earnings call on Wednesday, Disney CEO...
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On August 6th, 2024 with 17 comments
Zack Whittaker reports via TechCrunch: A cyberattack on Mobile Guardian, a U.K.-based provider of educational device management software, has sparked outages...
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On August 6th, 2024 with 56 comments
Mainframe computers, stalwarts of high-speed data processing, are finding new relevance in the age of AI. Banks, insurers, and airlines continue to rely on...
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On August 6th, 2024 with 67 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Hackers delivered malware to Windows and Mac users by compromising their Internet service provider and...
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On August 5th, 2024 with 68 comments
snydeq writes: CSO Online's Evan Schuman reports on a design flaw in Microsoft Authenticator that causes it to often overwrite authentication accounts when a...
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On August 5th, 2024 with 100 comments
Reeling from security and optics issues, Microsoft appears to be trying to correct its story. An anonymous reader shares a report: Microsoft made it clear...
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On August 3rd, 2024 with 11 comments
An anonymous reader shared this report from BleepingComputer:
A Chinese hacking group tracked as StormBamboo has compromised an undisclosed internet service...
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On July 31st, 2024 with 29 comments
A cyberattack has hit a blood-donation nonprofit that serves hundreds of hospitals in the southeastern US. From a report: The hack, which was first reported by...
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On July 31st, 2024 with 31 comments
An investigation has determined that "Chinese state actors" were responsible for a 2021 cyberattack on Germany's national office for cartography, officials in...
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On July 31st, 2024 with 50 comments
AWS has quietly halted new customer onboarding for several of its services, including the once-touted CodeCommit source code repository and Cloud9 cloud IDE,...
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On July 30th, 2024 with 21 comments
According to new report, password manager Dashlane has seen a 400 percent increase in passkey authentications since the beginning of the year, "with 1 in 5...
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On July 30th, 2024 with 29 comments
apcyberax shares a report: Microsoft is investigating an ongoing and widespread outage blocking access to some Microsoft 365 and Azure services. "We're...
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On July 29th, 2024 with 61 comments
In an incident report today, DigiCert says it discovered that some CNAME-based validations did not include the required underscore prefix, affecting about 0.4%...
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