On April 1st, 2021 with 53 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Federal prosecutors have indicted a Kansas man for allegedly logging into a computer system at a public...
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On March 31st, 2021 with 74 comments
chicksdaddy shares a report from The Security Ledger: Independent security researchers analyzing the widely used open source component netmask have discovered...
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On March 30th, 2021 with 100 comments
In January, Ubiquiti Networks sent out a notification to its customers informing them of a security breach and asking all users to change their account...
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On March 29th, 2021 with 54 comments
An anonymous reader writes: The New Zealand Ministry of Health has launched a "sweeping review" of the nation's COVID vaccine-booking system, after a data...
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On March 29th, 2021 with 104 comments
In his "Technically Incorrect" column, Chris Matyszczyk shares one employee's gripe about their new lockdown-incuded online workplace:
Writing to New York...
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On March 28th, 2021 with 47 comments
Security researcher Brian Krebs wants you to know... "New data suggests someone has compromised more than 21,000 Microsoft Exchange Server email systems...
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On March 28th, 2021 with 24 comments
"OpenSSL, the most widely used software library for implementing website and email encryption, has patched a high-severity vulnerability that makes it easy for...
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On March 26th, 2021 with 19 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: All of the major carriers made a significant change to how SMS messages are routed to prevent hackers...
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On March 25th, 2021 with 78 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: Following the dismantling of several private trackers in 2020, a man has been sentenced for sharing thousands of TV shows...
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On March 22nd, 2021 with 110 comments
"A new study from Microsoft, released Monday, found that among the more than 31,000 workers it surveyed, 73% hoped remote work options would continue when the...
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On March 22nd, 2021 with 17 comments
A company that makes an email app that helps users encrypt their emails paid for fake reviews in an attempt to get more people to download its products,...
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On March 20th, 2021 with 19 comments
"Microsoft has implemented an automatic mitigation tool within Defender Antivirus to tackle critical vulnerabilities in Exchange Server," reports ZDNet:
On...
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On March 20th, 2021 with 39 comments
Computer maker Acer has been hit by a ransomware attack "where the threat actors are demanding the largest known ransom to date, $50,000,000," writes Bleeping...
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On March 18th, 2021 with 66 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from IEEE Spectrum, written by Stacey Higginbotham: The IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2020 has given the nation an...
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On March 18th, 2021 with 24 comments
A security researcher has discovered a novel steganography technique for hiding data inside a Portable Network Graphics (.PNG) image file posted on Twitter, a...
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On March 18th, 2021 with 13 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: DDoS mitigation provider Netscout said on Wednesday that it has observed DDoS-for-hire services adopting...
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On March 16th, 2021 with 39 comments
Just as LastPass nerfs the free tier of its popular password manager, Dropbox has swooped in with a free version of its own password app -- but there's a bit...
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On March 15th, 2021 with 14 comments
A lapsed domain registration tied to WeLeakInfo, a wildly popular service that sold access to more than 12 billion usernames and passwords from thousands of...
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On March 15th, 2021 with 36 comments
Thelasko writes: Microsoft is reporting an outage of Office 365, including Microsoft Teams. On its status page, Microsoft adds: Users may be unable to access...
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On March 13th, 2021 with 79 comments
Salesforce canceled its 325,000-square-foot lease at the unbuilt Parcel F tower in San Francisco's Transbay neighborhood, reports SFGate:
The company...
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On March 13th, 2021 with 43 comments
Attacks that leverage Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities "have escalated," warns CNN. They cite a senior White House official saying the window for updating...
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On March 12th, 2021 with 16 comments
Microsoft is investigating whether a world-wide cyberattack on tens of thousands of its corporate customers may be linked to a leak of information by the...
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On March 12th, 2021 with 24 comments
Swiss authorities raided the apartment Friday of a hacker who claimed credit for breaching the Silicon Valley security camera company Verkada and gaining...
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On March 10th, 2021 with 14 comments
As many as 60,000 computer systems in Germany were exposed to a flaw that allows unauthorized users to access systems in Microsoft's email software, the head...
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On March 8th, 2021 with 54 comments
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, has signed an agreement with Intel to add it to its Data Protection in Virtual Environments project,...
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On March 8th, 2021 with 193 comments
Thunderbolt, Intel's super-speedy connection technology, isn't widely used. But that may change in the coming year, as more computer makers incorporate the USB...
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On March 7th, 2021 with 26 comments
ArghBlarg (Slashdot reader #79,067) shares some research from a senior application security engineer at GitLab:
Michael Henrikson describes his investigations...
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On March 5th, 2021 with 51 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Krebs On Security: At least 30,000 organizations across the United States -- including a significant number of small...
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On March 4th, 2021 with 26 comments
tsu doh nimh shares a report: Over the past few weeks, three of the longest running and most venerated Russian-language online forums serving thousands of...
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On March 3rd, 2021 with 122 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NBC News: The U.S. has issued an emergency warning after Microsoft said it caught China hacking into its mail and...
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