The Register Three individuals were charged on Friday for allegedly hijacking a string of high-profile Twitter accounts after hoodwinking the social network’s staff. It is claimed a social-engineering-driven phishing campaign against Twitter employees led to …
WIRED On July 15, a Discord user with the handle Kirk#5270 made an enticing proposition. “I work for Twitter,” they said, according to court documents released Friday. “I can claim any name, let me know …
The Hacker News The Council of the European Union has imposed its first-ever sanctions against persons or entities involved in various cyber-attacks targeting European citizens, and its member states. The directive has been issued against …
EU sanctions hackers from China, Russia, North Korea who’re wanted by the FBI Read More »
Bleeping Computer TrickBot’s Anchor malware platform has been ported to infect Linux devices and compromise further high-impact and high-value targets using covert channels. TrickBot is a multi-purpose Windows malware platform that uses different modules to perform …
Linux warning: TrickBot malware is now infecting your systems Read More »
9to5Linux Mozilla Thunderbird 78.1 is now rolling out today to all supported platforms as the first point release to the latest major Mozilla Thunderbird 78 release with a bunch of exciting new features. As you …
Mozilla Thunderbird 78.1 Released with Full OpenPGP Support, Search in Preferences Tab Read More »
Ars Technica Over the past few years, online disinformation has taken evolutionary leaps forward, with the Internet Research Agency pumping out artificial outrage on social media and hackers leaking documents—both real and fabricated—to suit their …
Hackers broke into real news sites to plant fake stories Read More »
Electronic Frontier Foundation For years, free speech and press freedoms have been under attack in Turkey. The country has the distinction of being the world’s largest jailer of journalists and has in recent years been cracking down …
Turkey’s New Internet Law Is the Worst Version of Germany’s NetzDG Yet Read More »
The Register The UK’s Secret Intelligence Service, aka MI6, has been accused of trying to tamper with a court that is supposed to oversee and regulate it after an extraordinary tale emerged yesterday. Two spies …
The Verge Face masks are one of the best defenses against the spread of COVID-19, but their growing adoption is having a second, unintended effect: breaking facial recognition algorithms. Wearing face masks that adequately cover …
Face masks are breaking facial recognition algorithms, says new government study Read More »
WIRED Li Xiaoyu had a problem. At some point in his decade-long hacking spree with former college classmate Dong Jiazhi, as alleged in a recent Justice Department indictment, the Chinese national found himself unable to …
Chinese Hackers Charged in Decade-Long Crime and Spying Spree Read More »
Bleeping Computer Microsoft has set the official retirement date for the insecure Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.0 and 1.1 protocols in Office 365 starting with October 15, 2020, after temporarily halting deprecation enforcement for commercial …
Microsoft will disable insecure TLS in Office 365 on Oct 15 Read More »
The Register Twitter has revealed more about the July 15 attack that saw several prominent accounts hijacked to promote a Bitcoin scam. The Saturday, July 18 update admits the attackers successfully manipulated a small number …
Twitter hackers busted 2FA to access accounts and then reset user passwords Read More »