On September 8th, 2021 with 9 comments
The infamous criminal ransomware group behind the JBS SA cyberattack has returned to the dark web after vanishing this summer. From a report: "REvil," short...
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On September 7th, 2021 with 33 comments
A bug in the McDonald's Monopoly VIP game in the United Kingdom caused the login names and passwords for the game's database to be sent to all winners....
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On September 7th, 2021 with 40 comments
Proof-of-concept exploit code was published online over the weekend for an unpatched Ghostscript vulnerability that puts all servers that rely on the component...
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On September 5th, 2021 with 40 comments
"A security researcher has discovered malicious code inside the firmware of four low-budget push-button mobile phones sold through Russian online stores,"...
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On September 5th, 2021 with 21 comments
Slashdot reader storagedude writes: In a novel attack technique, Israeli security researchers discovered that cybercriminals were subscribing to Salesforce in...
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On September 3rd, 2021 with 29 comments
Artist Banksy's team was warned his website had a security weakness seven days before a hacker scammed a fan out of $336,000. The BBC reports: On Tuesday a...
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On September 3rd, 2021 with 13 comments
In mid-July this year, Texas-based software provider SolarWinds released an emergency security update to patch a zero-day in its Serv-U file transferring...
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On September 2nd, 2021 with 10 comments
Cybercrime and computer security reporter Brian Krebs tells the story of a cybercrime group that compromises up to 100,000 email inboxes per day, and...
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On September 2nd, 2021 with 51 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: It looks like a Lightning cable, it works like a Lightning cable, and I can use it to connect my keyboard...
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On September 2nd, 2021 with 19 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: An anonymous reader Days before Christmas in 2015, Juniper Networks alerted users that it had been breached. In a brief...
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On August 28th, 2021 with 19 comments
Infosecurity magazine reports:
Some of the world's biggest tech companies have committed tens of billions of dollars to improving supply chain security,...
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On August 27th, 2021 with 10 comments
A team of scientists from a Swiss university has discovered a way to bypass PIN codes on contactless cards from Mastercard and Maestro. From a report: The...
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On August 27th, 2021 with 43 comments
Microsoft has warned thousands of its cloud computing customers, including some of the world's largest companies, that intruders could have the ability to...
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On August 26th, 2021 with 26 comments
According to the Wall Street Journal, the person behind T-Mobile's recent security breach that affected more than 50 million customers is a 21-year-old named...
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On August 26th, 2021 with 43 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: Steven Adair hunts hackers for a living. Back in January, in a corner-of-his-eye, peripheral kind of way, he thought he...
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On August 24th, 2021 with 56 comments
Opponents of the Belarus government said they have pulled off an audacious hack that has compromised dozens of police and interior ministry databases as part...
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On August 24th, 2021 with 8 comments
The US Federal Bureau of Investigations has published its first-ever public advisory detailing the modus operandi of a "ransomware affiliate." From a report: A...
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On August 23rd, 2021 with 13 comments
A dangerous vulnerability in Realtek chipsets used in hundreds of thousands of smart devices from at least 65 vendors is currently under attack from a...
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On August 23rd, 2021 with 19 comments
More than a thousand web apps mistakenly exposed 38 million records on the open internet, including data from a number of Covid-19 contact tracing platforms,...
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On August 23rd, 2021 with 85 comments
An anonymous reader writes: A Razer Synapse zero-day vulnerability has been disclosed that allows you to gain Windows admin privileges simply by plugging in a...
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On August 18th, 2021 with 51 comments
T-Mobile has confirmed that millions of current and former customers had their information stolen in a data breach, following reports of a hack over the...
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On August 18th, 2021 with 40 comments
A flaw in software made by BlackBerry has left two hundred million cars, along with critical hospital and factory equipment, vulnerable to hackers -- and the...
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On August 18th, 2021 with 45 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Record: Scripps Health, a California-based nonprofit healthcare provider that runs five hospitals and 19...
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On August 17th, 2021 with 42 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from BleepingComputer: Security researchers are sounding the alarm on a critical vulnerability affecting tens of millions...
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On August 17th, 2021 with 65 comments
An anonymous reader writes: In an award-winning paper last week, academics said they discovered a way to abuse the TCP protocol, firewalls, and other network...
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On August 17th, 2021 with 23 comments
A security researcher has discovered a web attack framework developed by a suspected Chinese government hacking group and used to exploit vulnerabilities in 58...
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On August 16th, 2021 with 74 comments
A fix that was made in early June to the GNU C Library (glibc) introduced a new and nastier problem. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes via ZDNet: The first...
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On August 16th, 2021 with 87 comments
A secret terrorist watchlist with 1.9 million records, including classified "no-fly" records was exposed on the internet. The list was left accessible on an...
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On August 16th, 2021 with 15 comments
Pearson, a London-based publishing and education giant that provides software to schools and universities has agreed to pay $1 million to settle charges that...
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On August 15th, 2021 with 37 comments
Slashdot reader lightbox32 shared this report from Motherboard:
T-Mobile says it is investigating a forum post claiming to be selling a mountain of personal...
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