Twitter security under scrutiny after former executive turns whistleblower

Categories: News

Tags: Twitter

Tags: Zatko

Tags: Mudge

Tags: L0pht

Tags: Cult of the dead cow

Tags: Infrastructure

Tags: bots

Tags: Elon Musk

Tags: FTC

Tags: SEC

Tags: whistleblower

Former Twitter head of security and ethical hacker Peiter Mudge Zatko has alleged some serious problems about the social media giant.

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ChromeOS vulnerability found by Microsoft

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Tags: Microsoft

Tags: ChromeOS

Tags: Chrome

Tags: Google

Tags: audio

Tags: bluetooth

Tags: exploit

Tags: vulnerability

Microsoft has released a report detailing a ChromeOS vulnerability reported to Chrome and fixed within a week.

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Reset your password now! Plex suffers data breach

Categories: News

Tags: Plex

Tags: breach

Tags: sign out

Tags: change password

Tags: Troy Hunt

Tags: HaveIBeenPwnd

In an email sent to its users, Plex revealed that a cybercriminal accessed a limited subset of customer data, including emails and encrypted passwords.

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Thousands of Hikvision video cameras remain unpatched and vulnerable to takeover

Categories: News

Tags: Hikvision

Tags: CVE-2021-36260

Tags: metasploit

Tags: Mirai

Tags: Moobot

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A patch has been available since September 2021, yet tens of thousands of systems used by 2,300 organizations across 100 countries have still not applied the security update.

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Google flags man as sex abuser after he sends photos of child to doctor

Categories: News

Tags: CSAM

Tags: de-Google

Tags: AI

Tags: NCMEC

Tags: EFF

Tags: false positive

Tech giants are scanning our private files to find predators guilty of sexually abusing children, but they are creating victims of their own.

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Reddit users crowdsourcing explicit images and identities

Categories: News

Tags: stolen images

Tags: explicit

Tags: theft

Tags: compromise

Tags: blackmail

Tags: threats

Tags: reddit

Tags: video

We look at a report highlighting how explicit images are being shared without permission, and how this often leads to additional harassment.

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Cryptojackers growing in numbers and sophistication

Categories: News

Categories: Cryptomining

Tags: Cryptojacking

Tags: fileless

Tags: malware

Tags: LOLBins

Tags: RiskWare.BitCoinMiner

Tags: Trojan.BitCoinMiner

Tags: c2

Tags: mining pools

Probably due to rising energy costs and the volatility in crypto-currencies, we can see a rise in malicious crypto mining, aka cryptojacking.

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