Blockchain startup MonoX Finance said on Wednesday that a hacker stole $31 million by exploiting a bug in software the service uses to draft smart contracts. The company uses a decentralized finance protocol known as …
Really stupid “smart contract” bug let hackers steal $31 million in digital coin Read More »
Nickolas Sharp, a former employee of networking device maker Ubiquiti, was arrested and charged today with data theft and attempting to extort his employer while posing as a whistleblower and an anonymous hacker. As alleged, …
Former Ubiquity dev charged for trying to extort his employer Read More »
34-year-old Russian Aleksandr Grichishkin, the founder of a bulletproof hosting service, was sentenced to 60 months in prison for allowing cybercrime gangs to use the platform in attacks targeting US financial institutions between 2008 to …
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Signal has no data to sell, no advertisers to sell it to, and no shareholders to benefit from such a sale. We’re building a different kind of tech – where your data stays in your …
Guest post by Rasmus Dahlberg, Tobias Pulls, Tom Ritter, and Paul Syverson. Full article
Along with the trove of “Facebook Papers” recently leaked to press outlets was a document that Facebook has, until now, kept intentionally secret: its list of “Dangerous Organizations and Individuals.” This list comprises supposed terrorist …
In the past few weeks, the Biden Administration has finally moved forward with nominations to the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Communications Commission. One of those nominees, Gigi Sohn (who, fair disclosure, has been …
The Internet Needs Fair Rules of the Road – and Competitive Drivers Read More »
UK’s top intelligence agency MI6 has made an astonishing revelation yesterday, saying that the Chinese intelligence has set up data and dept traps to conquer the entire world by conducting espionage and indulging in extortion …
Mozilla has addressed a critical memory corruption vulnerability affecting its cross-platform Network Security Services (NSS) set of cryptography libraries. NSS can be used to develop security-enabled client and server apps with support for SSL v3, TLS, PKCS …
Mozilla fixes critical bug in cross-platform cryptography library Read More »
Europol has announced the arrest of 1,803 money mules out of 18,351 identified following an international money-laundering crackdown operation codenamed “EMMA 7.” As its name suggests, this was the seventh EMMA (European Money Mule Action) …
Europol: 18k money mules caught laundering money from online fraud Read More »
Three APT hacking groups from India, Russia, and China, were observed using a novel RTF (rich text format) template injection technique in their recent phishing campaigns. This technique is a simple yet effective method to …
State-backed hackers increasingly use RTF injection for phishing Read More »
Location tracking can be very handy — it’s convenient when an app can tell you, say, where the nearby restaurants or gas stations are — but it’s also a privacy issue. Do you want all …