01 Apr

AT&T admits massive 70M+ mid-March customer data dump is real though old

AT&T confirmed over the weekend that more than 73 million records of its current and former customers dumped on the dark web in mid-March do

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01 Apr

Watch Out For IRS Scams and Avoid Identity Theft

It’s time to get those W-2 and 1099 tax forms ready. On January 29th, the IRS began accepting paper and electronic tax returns ahead of

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01 Apr

Nearly 3M people hit in Harvard Pilgrim healthcare data theft

Infosec in brief Nearly a year on from the discovery of a massive data theft at healthcare biz Harvard Pilgrim, and the number of victims

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01 Apr

Ex-White House CIO tells The Reg: TikTok ban may be diplomatic disaster

Interview Congress is mulling legislation that will require TikTok’s Chinese parent ByteDance to cut ties with the video-sharing mega-app, or the social network will be

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01 Apr

AT&T admits massive 70m+ mid-March data dump is real, but claims it’s years old

That rumored AT&T dark web customer data dump from mid-March has been confirmed, and it’s a whopper: A total of more than 73 million current

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31 Mar

Rust developers at Google are twice as productive as C++ teams

Echoing the past two years of Rust evangelism and C/C++ ennui, Google reports that Rust shines in production, to the point that its developers are

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30 Mar

AT&T Data Leak: What You Need to Know and How to Protect Yourself

AT&T, one of the largest telecom giants, recently acknowledged a significant data leak that has affected millions of its customers. The leaked dataset, which includes

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29 Mar

Malicious SSH backdoor sneaks into xz, Linux world’s data compression library

Red Hat on Friday warned that a malicious backdoor found in the widely used data compression library called xz may be present in Fedora Linux

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29 Mar

Easy-to-use make-me-root exploit lands for recent Linux kernels. Get patching

A Linux privilege-escalation proof-of-concept exploit has been published that, according to the bug hunter who developed it, typically works effortlessly on kernel versions between at

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29 Mar

RDP remains a security concern – Week in security with Tony Anscombe

Video Much has been written about the risks that poorly-secured RDP connections entail, but many organizations continue to leave themselves at risk and get hit

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28 Mar

Ransomware can mean life or death at hospitals. DEF CON hackers to the rescue?

Interview As ransomware gangs target critical infrastructure – especially hospitals and other healthcare organizations – DARPA has added another government agency partner to its Artificial

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28 Mar

FTX crypto-crook Sam Bankman-Fried gets 25 years in prison

Fallen crypto-king Sam Bankman-Fried has been jailed for 25 years after New York federal judge Lewis Kaplan expressed disbelief at almost every argument from his

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28 Mar

JetBrains keeps mum on 26 ‘security problems’ fixed after Rapid7 spat

JetBrains TeamCity users are urged to apply the latest version upgrade this week after the vendor disclosed 26 new security issues in the CI/CD web

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28 Mar

Nvidia’s newborn ChatRTX bot patched for security bugs

Nvidia’s AI-powered ChatRTX app launched just six week ago but already has received patches for two security vulnerabilities that enabled attack vectors, including privilege escalation

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28 Mar

Teen Slang – What You Need To Know To Understand Your Teen

Got any ‘rizz’? Did you ‘slay’ that dinner? Is the ‘cozzie livs’ stressing you out?  If you do not comprehendo, then you wouldn’t be alone.

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28 Mar

US critical infrastructure cyberattack reporting rules inch closer to reality

America’s long-awaited cyber attack reporting rules for critical infrastructure operators are inching closer to implementation, after the Feds posted a notice of proposed rulemaking for

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28 Mar

Canonical cracks down on crypto cons following Snap Store scam spree

After multiple waves of cryptocurrency credential-stealing apps were uploaded to the Snap store, Canonical is changing its policies. In what’s expected to be a temporary

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28 Mar

Cybercriminals play dirty: A look back at 10 cyber hits on the sporting world

The Olympic Games, the FIFA World Cup, and the Super Bowl are just a few examples of iconic sporting events that showcase the global significance

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