The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has revoked China Unicom Americas’ license, one of the world’s largest mobile service providers, over “serious national security concerns.” This effectively bans the telecom company from providing domestic and international …
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The White House released a new cybersecurity strategy Wednesday aimed at reducing the risk of cyberattacks against government infrastructure. The strategy outlines the administration’s vision for moving government agencies towards a “zero trust” architecture — …
You probably know that our user-facing product for providing privacy, safety, and security online is Tor Browser. Tor Browser allows millions of people to easily exercise their human right to privacy, within the framework of …
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Linux vendors on Tuesday issued patches for a memory corruption vulnerability in a component called polkit that allows an unprivileged logged-in user to gain full root access on a system in its default configuration. Security …
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The Canadian government department for foreign and consular relations, Global Affairs Canada was hit by a cyberattack last week. While critical services remain accessible, access to some online services is currently not available, as government systems continue …
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Twitter’s head of security and CISO both ejected from the social media biz this month. Infosec guru Mudge, aka Peiter Zatko, joined Twitter in 2020 in the aftermath of 130 high-profile accounts, including those of …
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This week, the U.K. government launched an unprecedented and deceptive effort to kill off end-to-end encryption. They’ve hired a fancy ad agency to convince people that encrypted messages are dangerous to children. The explicit goal …
US-based Tor Project and Russian digital-rights protection org RosKomSvoboda are appealing a Russian court’s decision to block access to public Tor nodes and the project’s website. The non-profit Tor Project operates the Tor decentralized network, …
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Security researchers have unveiled MoonBounce, a custom UEFI firmware implant used in targeted attacks. The implant is believed to be the work of APT41, a Chinese-speaking sophisticated hacking group also known as Winnti or Double …
Chinese APT deploys MoonBounce implant in UEFI firmware Read More »
The Austrian website of medical news company NetDoktor works like millions of others. Load it up and a cookie from Google Analytics is placed on your device and tracks what you do during your visit. …
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In August 2021, the subtitling website Open Subtitles suffered a data breach and subsequent ransom demand. The breach exposed almost 7M subscribers’ personal data including email and IP addresses, usernames, the country of the user …
The UK government has announced a crackdown on cryptocurrency-related adverts that could be considered misleading. On Tuesday, the Exchequer said that legislation is due to be proposed to force cryptocurrency and crypto services, in general, …
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