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About a decade ago, Apple and Google started updating iOS and Android, respectively, to make them less susceptible to “juice jacking,” a form of attack that could surreptitiously steal data or execute malicious code when users plug their phones into special-purpose charging hardware. Now, researchers are revealing that, for years, the mitigations have suffered from…
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The U.S. military has been bombing Yemen for weeks on end, executing hundreds of strikes this month alone.Why it matters: The standoff between American forces and Houthi rebels backed by Iran risks something President Trump promised to stamp out: endless war. In this case, though, it’s being waged almost entirely from the air and often…
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An incident response plan is central to ensuring your organization is prepared for a cyberattack. But such documents, which detail steps that should be taken in the wake of various cyber scenarios, generally treat security response as a technical process. As Christopher Robinson, chief security architect of The Linux Foundation, puts it: “These plans are…
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A breach has rocked the government sector. Confidential data has been stolen, critical systems have been compromised, and the impact is rippling through agencies. The attack was a sophisticated advanced persistent threat (APT) that lurked undetected for months. But how did it happen? To find out, we must trace the…
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Sunday said the correction in the S&P 500 and Nasdaq was “healthy,” and suggested that prior strong performance in stocks had been signs of a “euphoric” market.Why it matters: Treasury secretaries don’t typically welcome major stock indices falling 10% in less than a month.But Bessent again said the economy needed…
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The Ballista botnet is actively exploiting a high-severity remote code execution flaw (CVE-2023-1389) in TP-Link Archer AX-21 routers, infecting over 6,000 devices primarily in Brazil, Poland, the UK, Bulgaria, and Turkey. Tom’s Hardware reports: According to a new report from the Cato CTRL team, the Ballista botnet exploits a remote code execution vulnerability that directly…
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The Ballista botnet is actively exploiting a high-severity remote code execution flaw (CVE-2023-1389) in TP-Link Archer AX-21 routers, infecting over 6,000 devices primarily in Brazil, Poland, the UK, Bulgaria, and Turkey. Tom’s Hardware reports: According to a new report from the Cato CTRL team, the Ballista botnet exploits a remote code execution vulnerability that directly…
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… ; Nicholas Court, assistant director of Interpol’s Financial Crime and … ; Nicholas Court, assistant director of Interpol’s Financial Crime and … are replaced. For that reason, Interpol’s Nicholas Court says …
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I think I’ve finally caught my breath after dealing with those 23 billion rows of stealer logs last week. That was a bit intense, as is usually the way after any large incident goes into HIBP. But the confusing nature of stealer logs coupled with an overtly long blog post explaining them and the conflation…
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Sudbury.com reports: Data acquired by unauthorized individuals during Rainbow District School Board’s recent cyber incident “was deleted and has not been shared,” according to an update on the situation from the school board. The school board also said in the Feb. 28 statement that three weeks after the cyber incident, which meant internet was unavailable……
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Cybersecurity service Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) has disclosed one of the largest data exposure events in its 11-year history, integrating 23 billion rows of stolen credentials from a malware operation dubbed “ALIEN TXTBASE.” The breach corpus contains 493 million unique website-email pairs tied to 284 million unique email addresses, alongside 244 million new passwords added to HIBP’s…
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arXiv:2502.09974v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Prompt engineering has emerged as a powerful technique for optimizing large language models (LLMs) for specific applications, enabling faster prototyping and improved performance, and giving rise to the interest of the community in protecting proprietary system prompts. In this work, we explore a novel perspective on prompt privacy through the…
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Have I Been Pwned (HIBP), a popular data breach notification service, has expressed a strong inclination to ban resellers from obtaining platform memberships. Troy Hunt made this decision after thoroughly examining the excessive support burden these resellers impose on the service. HIBP is a collectivel that allows users to check whether their personal information, such…
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As the crypto markets stall and the fear and greed index hits a low of 35, many investors are wondering if the crypto bull market is over as desperate traders hang on for a long-awaited “Alt Season.” But with a pro-crypto president in the White House issuing executive orders to investigate a strategic bitcoin reserve,…
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On January 28, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists updated the Doomsday Clock from 90 to 89 seconds until “midnight,” as world-ending threats continue escalating at a terrifying pace. Bulletin scientists listed several conditions that influenced the clock update.Read Entire Article
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Attackers may have leveraged vulnerabilities in the SimpleHelp remote monitoring and management solution to gain initial access to healthcare organizations. About the vulnerabilities On January 13, 2025, Horizon3.ai researchers revealed their discovery of three vulnerabilities affecting SimpleHelp’s server component, which would allow attackers to: Download files from the SimpleHelp server (e.g., log and configuration files)…
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Identity Theft Resource Center’s Lee on Lessons Learned From 2024 Mega-BreachesSix mega cybersecurity incidents led to a record 1.7 billion data breach notices going out to victims in 2024 – a dramatic 312% increase over the previous year. Identity Theft Resource Center President James E. Lee says the increase exposes industry-wide failures in basic cybersecurity…
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Why have MicroStrategy insiders been dumping MSTR? As MicroStrategy (MSTR) continues to dilute and supersede common shareholders to add bitcoin (BTC) to its balance sheet, company insiders continue to sell into their bids. While its leaders boast about the company’s long-term prospects, multi-million dollar BTC price forecasts, and accretive BTC purchases, many well-informed executives are…