Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2024 23:20:00 +0000
From tricking companies into handing over victims’ personal data to offering violence as a service, the online doxing ecosystem is not just still a problem—it’s getting more extreme.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2024 17:20:00 +0000
A researcher found a vulnerability that would let hackers strategically downgrade a target’s Windows version to reexpose patched vulnerabilities. Microsoft is working on fixes for the issue.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2024 17:20:00 +0000
As digital threats against US water, food, health care, and other vital sectors loom large, a new project called UnDisruptable27 aims to help fix cybersecurity weaknesses where other efforts have failed.
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Credit to Author: Eric Geller| Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2024 10:30:00 +0000
Experts say the “nonsensical” policy proposal, which largely aligns with Donald Trump’s agenda, would weaken the US agency tasked with protecting election integrity, critical infrastructure, and more.
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Credit to Author: Dhruv Mehrotra, Andrew Couts| Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2024 10:30:00 +0000
Plus: Meta pays $1.4 million in a historic privacy settlement, Microsoft blames a cyberattack for a major Azure outage, and an artist creates a face recognition system to reveal your NYPD “coppelganger.”
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2024 16:34:03 +0000
Social Security numbers, death certificates, voter applications, and other personal data were accessible on the open internet, highlighting the ongoing challenges in election security.
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Credit to Author: Ali Winston, Jake Hanrahan| Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2024 14:50:06 +0000
Joshua Caleb Sutter infiltrated far-right extremist organizations as a confidential FBI informant, all while promoting hateful ideologies that influenced some of the internet’s most violent groups.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2024 11:00:00 +0000
The RayV Lite will make it hundreds of times cheaper for anyone to carry out physics-bending feats of hardware hacking.
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