The Register A Russian scumbag found guilty of hacking into LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring – and stealing data on over 200 million users – has been sent down for more than seven years. Yevgeniy Nikulin …
WIRED In the closing section of last night’s unhinged presidential debate, moderator and Fox News anchor Chris Wallace raised a discussion about election integrity. What are you prepared to do to reassure the American people …
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ZDNet Social networking giant Twitter said today that it removed around 130 Iranian Twitter accounts for attempting to disrupt the public conversation during last night’s first Presidential Debate for the US 2020 Presidential Election. Twitter …
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ZDNet A hacker group previously associated with the North Korean regime has been spotted launching spear-phishing attacks to compromise officials part of the United Nations Security Council. The attacks, disclosed in a UN report last month, have …
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We have found that you could be leaking your Internet traffic when running Linux under WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux 2). Our investigation has shown that these leaks also occur on other VPN software, and …
ZDNet Pastebin, the most popular website where users can share small snippets of text, has added two new features today that cyber-security researchers believe are going to be widely and wildly abused by malware operators. …
ZDNet Twitter said today it’s been working over the past months to bolster its internal security by requiring staff to go through additional security training, engaging in penetration tests, and by deploying hardware security keys …
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WIRED July 15 was, at first, just another day for Parag Agrawal, the chief technology officer of Twitter. Everything seemed normal on the service: T-Pain’s fans were defending him in a spat with Travis Scott; …
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Naked Security Aren’t SMSes dead? Aren’t they just plain old text anyway? Surely they’re of no interest to cybercriminals any more? Well, SMSes aren’t dead at all – they’re still widely used because of their …
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Bleeping Computer Scammers are targeting your social network accounts with phishing emails that pretend to be copyright violations or promises of a shiny ‘blue checkmark’ next to your name. With social networks such as Twitter, …
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Bleeping Computer Scammers mixed together a malicious cocktail of social engineering, SIM-swapping, and remote desktop software to empty the bank accounts of at least three victims. In total, victims lost more than $350,000. They were …
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Bleeping Computer Technical details about a high-severity vulnerability in Facebook’s Instagram app for Android and iOS show how an attacker could exploit it to deny user access to the app, take full control of their …
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