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Google Maps’ Timeline feature is a great way to look back on your past travels—if you have the data to look back on. Timeline users over the past couple of weeks have noticed that their data is missing, with no warning or explanation. Redditor srj737 posted on the r/GooglePixel subreddit earlier this month, reporting they…
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Google has confirmed that a technical issue has permanently deleted location history data for numerous users of its Maps application, with no recovery possible for most affected customers. The problem emerged after Google transitioned its Timeline feature from cloud to on-device storage in 2024 to enhance privacy protections. Users began reporting missing historical location data…
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The Siri that was promised back in 2011 never quite materialized. Now the big upgrade promised as part of Apple Intelligence is delayed “indefinitely.” Why can’t Apple get Siri right?
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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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Gone are the days of blaming an entire generation’s money problems on avocado toast. In fact, the stereotype of “millennial money problems” may not be quite what it seems in the first palce. Millennial wealth in the U.S. has nearly quadrupled since 2019, according to Federal Reserve data. And yet, time and time again, millennials report…
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If you’re a CISO, chances are your inbox is filled with pitches from vendors claiming to have developed the latest game-changer in cybersecurity. And if you’re a vendor, you know the challenges of getting through to CISOs, the gatekeepers of security and risk management. It’s not that the intentions on either side are bad; CISOs…
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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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Corporate CEOs have “plenty of clarity” on U.S. tariff policy, despite all the on-off-on changes of recent weeks, President Trump said Sunday.Why it matters: Markets are falling, consumer confidence is declining, and executives say the uncertainty about tariffs is freezing up their businesses.What they’re saying: Trump, in an interview with Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures,”…
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Former top U.S. cybersecurity official Rob Joyce told lawmakers on Wednesday that cuts to federal probationary employees will have a “devastating impact” on U.S. national security. Joyce, who was the director of cybersecurity for the National Security Agency until retiring in 2024, was providing testimony to the U.S. House Committee on the Chinese Communist Party,…
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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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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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Dragos says OT has become a mainstream target – so expect more sophisticated attacks on critical infrastructure.
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Dragos says OT has become a mainstream target – so expect more sophisticated attacks on critical infrastructure.
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Elon Musk tweeted Saturday that federal workers would soon get an email “requesting to understand what they got done last week.” According to the New York Times, the email from the Office of Personnel Management went to agencies across the federal government that afternoon, including the FBI, State Department, and others, with a deadline for…
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One way to deal with an egg shortage: Hatch your own.Why it matters: When egg prices skyrocket, more people in the U.S. consider getting — and even renting — backyard chickens.By the numbers: 11 million U.S. households have backyard chickens, making chickens the third most popular pet in the country, according to the latest data…
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With incidences of ransomware on the rise, nobody should even be thinking that an attack is something that couldn’t happen to them, let alone speak those words into existence. And… The post Have the Last Word Against Ransomware with Immutable Backup appeared first on Cyber Defense Magazine.
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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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Analysts tell El Reg why Russia’s operators aren’t that careful, and why North Korea wants money AND data Feature Ransomware gangsters and state-sponsored online spies fall on opposite ends of the cyber-crime spectrum.…