22 Mar

Journalist hurt by exploding USB bomb drive

Police in Ecuador are investigating attacks on media organizations across the country after a journalist was injured by an exploding USB flash drive. In a

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22 Mar

German political parties accused of microtargeting voters on Facebook

Remember the Who Targets Me browser extension from privacy activists at Noyb? The group yesterday filed explosive complaints based on log records from the extension

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22 Mar

4 Mobile Malware Threats You Can’t Even See

By 2030, experts predict that there will be 5 billion devices connected to 5G.1 For the general population, this connectedness means better access to information,

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22 Mar

Unknown actors deploy malware to steal data in occupied regions of Ukraine

A cyber espionage campaign targeting organizations in Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine is using novel malware to steal data, according to Russia-based infosec software vendor Kaspersky.

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22 Mar

India’s absurd infosec reporting rules get just 15 followers

India’s rules requiring local organizations to report infosec incidents within six hours of detection have been observed by a mere 15 entities/ India’s Computer Emergency

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22 Mar

BreachForums shuts down … but the RaidForums cybercrime universe will likely spawn a trilogy

BreachForums has reportedly shut down for good, just days after US authorities arrested the online criminal marketplace’s alleged chief administrator. A second admin declared the

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22 Mar

Xi, Putin, declare intent to rule the world of AI, infosec

Russian president Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping have set themselves the goal of dominating the world of information technology. The two despots

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22 Mar

BreachForums shuts down … but the RaidForums cybercrime universe will likely become a trilogy

BreachForums has reportedly shut down for good, just days after US authorities arrested the online criminal marketplace’s alleged chief administrator. A second admin declared the

Author rabih
21 Mar

You just gonna take that AWS? Let Microsoft school your users on cloud security?

Microsoft has torn the wraps off its multi-cloud security benchmark (MCSB), which replaces the four-year-old Azure Security Benchmark. Crucially, as the name suggests, it now

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21 Mar

Ex-Meta security staffer accuses Greece of spying on her phone

Meta’s former security policy manager, who split her time between the US and Greece, is reportedly suing the Hellenic national intelligence service for hacking her

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21 Mar

Putin to staffers: Throw out your iPhones, or ‘give it to the kids’

Advisors and staff to Russia’s maximum leader have been told to ditch their iPhones by the end of the month. Or, for those who don’t

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21 Mar

Google suspends top Chinese shopping app Pinduoduo

Google has suspended Chinese shopping app Pinduoduo from its Play store because versions of the software found elsewhere have included malware. Pinduoduo rose to prominence

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21 Mar

Australian FinTech takes itself offline to deal with cyber incident that caused data leak

Latitude Financial has blamed a supplier for leaking creds that caused vast PII leak Australian outfit Latitude Financial has taken itself offline, and even stopped

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21 Mar

Ferrari in a spin as crims steal a car-load of customer data

Italian automaker Ferrari has warned its well-heeled customers that their personal data may be at risk. “We regret to inform you of a cyber incident

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20 Mar

Privacy fail: Pictures cropped, redacted by Google Pixel phones can be recovered

If you’ve owned a Google Pixel smartphone since the 3 series came out in 2018, bad news: any screenshot that you’ve cropped or redacted on

Author rabih
20 Mar

BBC to staff: Uninstall TikTok from our corporate kit unless you can ‘justify’ having it

The world’s oldest national broadcaster, the venerable British Broadcasting Corporation, has told staff they shouldn’t keep the TikTok app on a BBC corporate device unless

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20 Mar

Vessels claiming to be Chinese warships are messing with passenger planes

Australian airline Qantas issued standing orders to its pilots last week advising them that some of its fleet experienced interference on VHF stations from sources

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20 Mar

Police pounce on ‘pompompurin’ – alleged mastermind of BreachForums

In Brief A man accused of being the head of one of the biggest criminal online souks, BreachForums, has been arrested in Peekskill, New York.

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