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Sandvine sold its internet surveillance products to authoritarian regimes, including Belarus, Egypt, Eritrea, the United Arab Emirates, and Uzbekistan.
This is the chipmaker’s second round of layoffs over the past year, while the company recorded billions in revenue.
On Monday, Apple released its latest computer operating system update called macOS 15, or Sequoia. And, somehow, the software update has broken the functionality of several security tools made by…
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US government ‘took control’ of a botnet run by Chinese government hackers, says FBI director
The FBI, NSA and other U.S. government agencies detailed a Chinese-government operation that used 260,000 of internet-connected devices to launch cyberattacks.
Discord will now offer audio and video calls that even the company won’t be able to listen in on.
On Thursday, cybersecurity giant Fortinet disclosed a breach involving customer data. In a statement posted online, Fortinet said an individual intruder accessed “a limited number of files” stored on a…
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Hacker tricks ChatGPT into giving out detailed instructions for making homemade bombs
An explosives expert told TechCrunch that the ChatGPT output could be used to make a detonatable product and was too sensitive to be released.
A flaw in the design of WhatsApp’s “View Once” privacy feature let’s anyone save pictures and videos that should be ephemeral.
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US charges five Russian military hackers with targeting Ukraine’s government with destructive malware
The U.S. government indictment demonstrated deep knowledge of the Russian spies’ activities, including their real-world meetings at a cafe in Moscow.
The hiring effort comes after X, formerly known as Twitter, laid off 80% of its trust and safety staff since Musk’s takeover.
The North Korean hackers’ attack started by tricking a victim into visiting a web domain under the hackers’ control.
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Chinese government hackers targeted US internet providers with zero-day exploit, researchers say
A group of hackers linked to the Chinese government used a previously unknown vulnerability in software to target U.S. internet service providers, security researchers have found. The group known as…
This is a guide on how to check whether someone compromised your online accounts.
After saying users “do not need to worry excessively” about a series of security flaws, Ecovacs said it will — in fact — roll out fixes.
A bug in the iPhone makes it crash just by typing four characters.
After tech giant Cisco announced plans for its second round of layoffs this year, employees tell TechCrunch that they will not know if they are affected for close to a…
On Monday, the U.S. government formally accused Iran of hacking the Donald Trump campaign. In a joint statement issued by the FBI, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence…
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Trump campaign hack-and-leak appears like a rerun of 2016. This time, media outlets are responding differently
Faced with a new hack-and-leak operation targeting the Trump presidential campaign, journalists and media outlets are taking a different approach to their reporting.
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After global IT meltdown, CrowdStrike courts hackers with action figures and gratitude
CrowdStrike tried to go back to business as usual at one of the world’s largest annual cybersecurity conferences, weeks after its massive global IT crash.
Researchers found flaws that could allow anyone to spy on the owners of Ecovacs home robots by hijacking their cameras and microphones.
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How a cybersecurity researcher befriended, then doxed, the leader of LockBit ransomware gang
Jon DiMaggio used sockpuppet accounts, then his own identity, to infiltrate LockBit and gain the trust of its alleged admin, Dmitry Khoroshev.
Security researchers found a dozen vulnerabilities in 5G baseband chips found in phones made by Google, OPPO, OnePlus, Motorola, and Samsung.
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Bumble and Hinge allowed stalkers to pinpoint users’ locations down to 2 meters, researchers say
Badoo, Bumble, Grindr, happn, Hinge and Hily all had the same flaw that could have helped a malicious user identify the near-exact location of another user.
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Hacked, leaked, exposed: Why you should never use stalkerware apps
Using stalkerware is creepy, unethical, potentially illegal, and puts your data and that of your loved ones in danger.
Several people who received the CrowdStrike offer found that the gift card didn’t work, while others got an error saying the voucher had been canceled.
Cybersecurity firm Dragos and Ukrainian authorities found a cyberattack targeting critical infrastructure in Lviv.
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What we know about CrowdStrike’s update fail that’s causing global outages and travel chaos
Here’s everything you need to know so far about the global outages caused by CrowdStrike’s buggy software update.
Venture capital giant a16z fixed a security vulnerability in one of the firm’s websites after being warned by a security researcher.
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Hackers could create traffic jams thanks to flaw in traffic light controller, researcher says
A security researcher found that some traffic lights controllers are exposed on the internet and could be manipulated.
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What the AT&T phone records data breach means for you
The giant U.S. telco lost the information of around 110 million customers. Here’s what you need to know.
