Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2024 22:19:42 +0000
Swindlers are spinning up bogus websites in an attempt to dupe people with “CrowdStrike support” scams following the security firm’s catastrophic software update.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman, Matt Burgess, Andy Greenberg| Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2024 14:46:19 +0000
A defective CrowdStrike kernel driver sent computers around the globe into a reboot death spiral, taking down air travel, hospitals, banks, and more with it. Here’s how that’s possible.
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Credit to Author: Dhruv Mehrotra, Tim Marchman, Andrew Couts| Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2024 17:02:36 +0000
The Republican VP nominee’s Venmo network reveals connections ranging from the architects of Project 2025 to enemies of Donald Trump—and the populist’s close ties to the very elites he rails against.
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Credit to Author: Ali Winston| Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2024 22:02:50 +0000
US prosecutors have charged Michail Chkhikvishvili, also known as “Commander Butcher,” with a litany of crimes, including alleged attempts to poison Jewish children in NYC.
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Credit to Author: Eric Geller| Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2024 10:00:00 +0000
After the Supreme Court limited the power of federal agencies to craft regulations, it’s likely up to Congress to keep US cybersecurity policy intact.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2024 21:10:24 +0000
A hacker group called “NullBulge” says it stole more than a terabyte of Disney’s internal Slack messages and files from nearly 10,000 channels in an apparent protest over AI-generated art.
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Credit to Author: Dell Cameron| Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2024 17:48:33 +0000
Senator Mark Warner is trying to pass new limits on when the government can wiretap Americans. At least two senators are quietly trying to stop him.
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Credit to Author: Kim Zetter| Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2024 17:57:27 +0000
A security researcher who assisted with the deal says he believes the only copy of the complete dataset of call and text records of “nearly all” AT&T customers has been wiped—but some risks may remain.
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Credit to Author: Andrew Couts| Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2024 10:30:00 +0000
Plus: The Heritage Foundation gets hacked over Project 2025, a car dealership software provider seems to have paid $25 million to a ransomware gang, and authorities disrupt a Russian bot farm.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2024 17:44:16 +0000
Telecom giant AT&T says a major data breach has exposed the call and text records of “nearly all” of its customers, epitomizing the dire state of data security.
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