It appears that at least the United States has started taking the threat of Sim Swapping attacks very seriously. Starting with the country’s first-ever conviction for ‘SIM Swapping’ this February, U.S. Department of Justice has since then…
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Hundreds of millions of devices, especially Android smartphones and tablets, using Qualcomm chipsets, are vulnerable to a new set of potentially serious vulnerabilities. According to a report cybersecurity firm CheckPoint shared with The…
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A combined team of researchers from the University of Iowa and Purdue University has found nearly a dozen security breaches in the 5G protocol. They have written a paper describing both their findings and a security breaching tool they…
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SmarterASP.NET – a provider that hosts Microsoft’s ASP.NET open-source web framework and reportedly has more than 440,000 customers – suffered a ransomware attack on Saturday. SmarterASP.NET was blunt in a status update on Monday titled:…
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The percentage of websites protected with HTTPS secure encryption indicated by the lock icon in the address bar of most browsers has jumped from just over 40% in 2016 to 80% today. That’s largely due to the efforts of Let’s Encrypt, a…
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In a discovery made by the PerimeterX research team, two new “carding” bots that represent a threat to e-commerce platforms have been detected towards the beginning of the busiest shopping time of the year. Carding is a ‘brute force…
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Intel has announced a large number of patches and fixes for dozens of security problems in its products and processors. The company has provided a total of 77 patches to OEMs and partners as part of its Intel Platform Update program. We…
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Apple may care about your privacy but that doesn’t mean it gets it right all the time, especially when it comes to training its Siri AI assistant. Last week, a researcher went public with a glaring security hole in the way that Siri gets…
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Security researchers identified seven new malicious apps present on Google Play Store that infect devices with adware and malware while laying open the system’s backdoor access which ensures a smooth installation of any new functionality…
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A ransomware attack has ransacked at least two Spanish companies, leaving their employees without computer access. The ransomware hit radio broadcaster Sociedad Española de Radiodifusión (Cadena SER), which released a statement about the…
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As keen tech adopters know, Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa, Apple Siri, and Facebook Portal are AI-powered internet platforms that users control by issuing voice commands through smartphones or home ‘smart’ speakers. Or at least that’s…
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The data of Alfa-Bank credit card holders, as well as Alfa Insurance customers came up for sale in the Darknet. The bank confirmed the leak saying that it affects a few customers and does not pose a threat to the money in the accounts.…
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The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on Friday announced that it’s fining the founders of a “worthless cryptocurrency” that ran a $4.25m, so-called “binary options” scam involving a virtual currency known as ATM Coin. Their…
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Mozilla, in partnership with Facebook, Cloudflare, and other IETF community members, has announced technical specifications for a new cryptographic protocol called “Delegated Credentials for TLS.” Delegated Credentials for TLS is a new…
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HK Leaks, a notorious website is targeting Hong Kong pro-democracy supporters, leaking their personal details online and there seems to be no way of catching the site and stopping it. The website is using a Russian based server and is also…
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Countless millions of people use AI assistants such as Siri or Alexa to do everything from make purchases online to control the locks in their smart homes. Just say the command that triggers the assistant, and the sound waves from your…
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We’re changing our banking information, said the sham email purporting to be from a construction company working on an international airport in the Florida city of Ocala. The message pretended to come from Ausley Construction, a bona fide…
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Google has patched a bug in the Android operating system that could have allowed attackers to install a rogue application on a victim’s phone – but only if they were able to invade their personal space. Nightwatch Security found the flaw,…
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Many studies and investigations have been conducted into the number of stolen credentials on the dark web. Nonetheless, a new report recently issued is a little different: it relies on credentials from international Fortune 500 companies…
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The Russian government calls it the “sovereign internet” law and from 1 November it compels the country’s ISPs to forward all data arriving and departing from their networks through special gateway servers. Promoted since 2018, from the…
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As Henry Lau slept on Oct. 15, hackers quietly took control of the ads manager page for his Facebook account. By 6:15 a.m. PT, Facebook had approved a widespread advertising campaign with a budget of $10,000 per day to promote a 13-second…
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The Ministry of Internal Affairs will have units to combat crimes committed using IT-technologies. Units will be formed without increasing the staff. This decision was made by Vladimir Kolokoltsev, the Minister of Internal Affairs of the…
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Remember when Uber was hacked but paid the hackers $100,000 in hush money to delete the data and zip their lips about it? The two guys who did the hack, they’re going down. Brandon Charles Glover, 26, of Florida, and Vasile Mereacre, 23,…
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Cybersecurity researchers have spotted a new cyberattack, which is believed to be the very first but amateur attempt to weaponize the infamous BlueKeep RDP vulnerability in the wild to mass compromise vulnerable systems for cryptocurrency…
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On November 1, the law on the isolation of the Runet came into force. Some companies spend millions to switch to Russian servers and local social networks, while others completely shut down business in the country. The Runet isolation will…
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