Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman, Kate Knibbs| Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 02:00:19 +0000
The hack exposed the data of 31 million users as the embattled Wayback Machine maker scrambles to stay online and contain the fallout of digital—and legal—attacks.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2024 16:02:20 +0000
The $4.4 billion in crypto is set to be the largest pile of criminal proceeds ever sold off by the US. The former IRS agent who seized the recording-breaking sum, meanwhile, languishes in a Nigerian jail cell.
Read moreThe Internet Archive has been hit hard by a data breach and several DDoS attacks all around the same time.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2024 17:36:27 +0000
The parents of a 19-year-old Connecticut honors student accused of taking part in a $243 million cryptocurrency heist in August were carjacked a week later, while out house-hunting in a brand new Lamborghini. Prosecutors say the couple was beaten and briefly kidnapped by six young men who traveled from Florida as part of a botched plan to hold the parents for ransom.
Read moreWhile Google is experimenting on how its search results page looks like, we are reminded of what users need the most: indicators of confidence.
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Credit to Author: Kate O’Flaherty| Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2024 15:39:49 +0000
Earlier this year, Google ditched its plans to abolish support for third-party cookies in its Chrome browser. While privacy advocates called foul, the implications for users is not so clear cut.
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Credit to Author: Angela Gunn| Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2024 05:40:24 +0000
Bumper crop of Windows vulns leads the way; 15 product groups represented
Read moreCredit to Author: Microsoft Threat Intelligence| Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2024 16:00:00 +0000
Since mid-April 2024, Microsoft has observed an increase in defense evasion tactics used in campaigns abusing file hosting services like SharePoint, OneDrive, and Dropbox. These campaigns use sophisticated techniques to perform social engineering, evade detection, and compromise identities, and include business email compromise (BEC) attacks.
The post File hosting services misused for identity phishing appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2024 22:21:19 +0000
Microsoft today released security updates to fix at least 117 security holes in Windows computers and other software, including two vulnerabilities that are already seeing active attacks. Also, Adobe plugged 52 security holes across a range of products, and Apple has addressed a bug in its new macOS 15 “Sequoia” update that broke many cybersecurity tools.
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