20 Jan

Crims steal data on 40 million T-Mobile US customers

T-Mobile US today said someone abused an API to download the personal information of 37 million subscribers. A regulatory filing [PDF] disclosed one or more

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19 Jan

PayPal says crooks poked around 35,000 accounts in credential stuffing attack

The personal information of 35,000 PayPal users was exposed in December, according to a notification letter sent to the online payment company’s customers this week.

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19 Jan

PayPal says crooks accessed 35,000 customers’ info in credential stuffing attack

The personal information of 35,000 PayPal users was exposed in December, according to a notification letter sent to the online payment company’s customers this week.

Author rabih
19 Jan

Finally, ransomware victims are refusing to pay up

The amount of money paid to ransomware attackers dropped significantly in 2022, and not because the number of attacks fell. It’s that more victims are

Author rabih
19 Jan

University of Texas latest US school to ban TikTok

Faculty and students at the University of Texas at Austin (UT) this week became the latest members of a public US university to lose access

Author rabih
19 Jan

University of Texas becomes latest US school to ban TikTok

Faculty and students at the University of Texas at Austin (UT) this week became the latest members of a public US university to lose access

Author rabih
19 Jan

Mailchimp ‘fesses up to second digital burglary in five months

Email marketing service Mailchimp has confirmed intruders have gained access to more than 100 customer accounts after successfully deploying a social engineering attack. This is

Author rabih
19 Jan

Ransomware severs 1,000 ships from on-shore servers

A Norwegian maritime risk management business is getting a lesson in that very area, after a ransomware attack forced its ShipManager software offline and left

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19 Jan

Ransomware attack severs 1,000 ships from their on-shore servers

A Norwegian maritime risk management business is getting a lesson in that very area, after a ransomware attack forced its ShipManager software offline and left

Author rabih
18 Jan

Thousands of Sophos firewalls still vulnerable out there to hijacking

More than 4,000 public-facing Sophos firewalls remain vulnerable to a critical remote code execution bug disclosed last year and patched months later, according to security

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18 Jan

Period-tracking apps, search engines on notice by draft law

A bill proposed by Washingston state lawmakers would make it illegal for period-tracking apps, Google or any other website to sell consumers’ health data while

Author rabih
18 Jan

Period-tracking apps and search engines put on notice by draft law

A bill proposed by Washingston state lawmakers would make it illegal for period-tracking apps, Google or any other website to sell consumers’ health data while

Author rabih
18 Jan

Proposed Washington law puts period-tracking apps and search engines on notice

A bill proposed by Washingston state lawmakers would make it illegal for period-tracking apps, Google or any other website to sell consumers’ health data while

Author rabih
18 Jan

Been hit by BianLian ransomware? Here’s your get-out-of-jail-free card

Cybersecurity firm Avast has released a free decryptor for victims of BianLian – an emerging ransomware threat that came into the public eye in last

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18 Jan

A Scam in the Family—How a Close Relative Lost $100,000 to an Elder Scam

Written by James Schmidt  Editor’s Note: We often speak of online scams in our blogs, ones that cost victims hundreds if not thousands of dollars.

Author rabih
18 Jan

Russian criminals can’t wait to hop over OpenAI’s fence, use ChatGPT for evil

Cybercriminals are famously fast adopters of new tools for nefarious purposes, and ChatGPT is no different in that regard.  However, its adoption by miscreants has

Author rabih
18 Jan

Russian criminals can’t wait to hop over OpenAI fence, use ChatGPT for evil

Cybercriminals are famously fast adopters of new tools for nefarious purposes, and ChatGPT is no different in that regard.  However, its adoption by miscreants has

Author rabih
17 Jan

Nearly 300 MSI motherboards will run any old code in Secure Boot, no questions asked

The Secure Boot process on almost 300 different PC motherboard models manufactured by Micro-Star International (MSI) isn’t secure, which is particularly problematic when “Secure” is

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