On April 9th, 2021 with 16 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), part of the Department of Homeland Security, recently paid...
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On August 20th, 2020 with 13 comments
Federal prosecutors have charged Uber's former chief security officer with covering up a massive 2016 data breach by arranging a $100,000 payoff to the hackers...
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On July 30th, 2020 with 38 comments
A recent series of malware attacks on U.S.-based merchants suggest thieves are exploiting weaknesses in how certain financial institutions have implemented the...
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On July 21st, 2020 with 46 comments
An anonymous reader writes: A rare 1944 four-rotor M4 Enigma cipher machine, considered one of the hardest challenges for the Allies to decrypt, has sold at a...
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On July 9th, 2020 with 34 comments
Pre-installed malware has been discovered on another budget handset connected to Assurance Wireless by Virgin Mobile. ZDNet reports: Back in January,...
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On June 7th, 2020 with 26 comments
The following report appeared on Yahoo! Finance:
Privacy-focused browser Brave was found to autocomplete several websites and keywords in its address bar with...
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On May 29th, 2020 with 8 comments
Netwalker ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operators have reportedly breached Michigan State University's network, threatening to leak private files to the...
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On May 18th, 2020 with 23 comments
An anonymous reader writes: Whether you think cryptocurrency is a scam or a salvation, those digital coins can store real-world value. The safest place to keep...
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On May 12th, 2020 with 36 comments
Brian Krebs reports that Diebold Nixdorf, a major provider of ATMs and payment technology to banks and retailers, recently suffered a ransomware attack that...
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On May 8th, 2020 with 20 comments
IT services provider Cognizant said in an earnings call this week that a ransomware incident that took place last month in April 2020 will negatively impact...
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On May 8th, 2020 with 87 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Syed Shah usually buys and sells stocks and currencies through his Interactive Brokers account, but he...
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On May 7th, 2020 with 140 comments
Stephenmg writes: The smart home hub Wink, which was purchased by Will.i.am in 2017, is giving users until May 13th to opt into a subscription for $4.99 per...
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On February 17th, 2020 with 16 comments
Brian Krebs sheds light upon a new email-based extortion scheme targeting website owners serving banner ads through Google's AdSense program. "In this scam,...
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On January 28th, 2020 with 20 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Krebs on Security: In late December 2019, fuel and convenience store chain Wawa said a nine-month-long breach of its...
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On January 15th, 2020 with 4 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from VentureBeat: The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) today announced it is funding a bug bounty program for...
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On January 9th, 2020 with 29 comments
In an apparent swipe at PayPal's recent $4 billion acquisition of Honey, a popular browser extension that tracks prices and discount codes, Amazon labeled the...
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On December 5th, 2019 with 26 comments
Security researchers at Check Point say the company has uncovered evidence that Chinese hackers
managed to hijack $1 million in seed money during a wire...
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On October 31st, 2019 with 20 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CBS News: New details about how Uber responded to a massive hack attack in 2016 raise questions about the way it...
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On October 17th, 2019 with 47 comments
A joint investigation between Motherboard and the German broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) has uncovered new details about a spate of so-called...
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On October 7th, 2019 with 100 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Three Alabama hospitals have paid a ransomware demand to the criminals who waged a crippling malware...
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On September 24th, 2019 with 25 comments
Hackers widely believed to work for North Korea's hermit government have developed a new strain of malware that steals data used at automatic teller machines...
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On September 4th, 2019 with 39 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Next Web: In March, criminals sought the help of commercially available voice-generating AI software to...
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On July 12th, 2019 with 97 comments
A ransomware attack in New York City's Monroe College has shut down the college's computer systems at campuses located in Manhattan, New Rochelle and St....
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On July 1st, 2019 with 326 comments
Officials from Lake City, Florida, have fired an IT employee last week after the city was forced to approve a gigantic ransomware payment of nearly $500,000...
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On June 11th, 2019 with 54 comments
Troy Hunt, the owner and founder of the well-known and respected data breach notification website "Have I Been Pwned," announced today that he's actively...
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On May 17th, 2019 with 16 comments
The Ethereum ecosystem is no different than the Windows or IoT landscape, where security flaws remain unpatched for long periods of time, despite the...
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On March 29th, 2019 with 14 comments
itwbennett writes: The popular e-commerce platform Magento has released 37 security issues affecting both the commercial and open-source versions, four of...
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On March 15th, 2019 with 136 comments
Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris has introduced legislation that would allocate millions of dollars for local government to create...
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