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From Trump campaign signs to Planned Parenthood bumper stickers, license plate readers around the US are creating searchable databases that reveal Americans’ political leanings and more.
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Meta has been fined $101 million by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission for storing hundreds of millions of user passwords in plaintext. We don’t really need to point the obvious, that storing passwords in plaintext is major violation of security best practices. Disclosed by Meta in 2019, it was then revealed that passwords for various Meta-owned platforms were logged in plaintext and stored…
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A new wave of international law enforcement actions has led to four arrests and the takedown of nine servers linked to the LockBit (aka Bitwise Spider) ransomware operation, marking the latest salvo against what was once a prolific financially motivated group.
This includes the arrest of a suspected LockBit developer in France while on holiday outside of Russia, two individuals in the U.K. who
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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a security flaw impacting Endpoint Manager (EPM) that the company patched in May to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-29824, carries a CVSS score of 9.6 out of a maximum of 10.0, indicating critical severity.
“An
CeranaKeeper is bombarding Southeast Asia with data exfiltration attacks via file-sharing services such as Pastebin, OneDrive, and GitHub, researchers say.
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Court Data Exposed by Vulnerabilities in Software Used by US Government: Researcher
/in General NewsSeveral e-filing and record management systems used in various US states were affected by serious vulnerabilities exposing sensitive data.
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Adobe Commerce Flaw Exploited to Compromise Thousands of Sites
/in General NewsOver 4,000 Adobe Commerce and Magento stores unpatched against an exploited vulnerability have been compromised.
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License Plate Readers Are Creating a US-Wide Database of Political Lawn Signs and Bumper Stickers
/in General NewsFrom Trump campaign signs to Planned Parenthood bumper stickers, license plate readers around the US are creating searchable databases that reveal Americans’ political leanings and more.
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Cybersecurity Head Says There’s No Chance a Foreign Adversary Can Change US Election Results
/in General NewsCISA director Jen Easterly says there is no chance a foreign adversary can change the results of the upcoming US election.
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Chrome, Firefox Updates Patch High-Severity Vulnerabilities
/in General NewsThe latest Chrome and Firefox security updates address multiple high-severity vulnerabilities affecting the popular web browsers.
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New Vulnerabilities Expose Hundreds of Thousands of DrayTek Routers to Hacking
/in General NewsForescout has identified more than a dozen new vulnerabilities in DrayTek routers, exposing hundreds of thousands of devices to attacks.
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Meta faces consequences for storing millions of passwords in plaintext
/in General NewsMeta has been fined $101 million by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission for storing hundreds of millions of user passwords in plaintext. We don’t really need to point the obvious, that storing passwords in plaintext is major violation of security best practices. Disclosed by Meta in 2019, it was then revealed that passwords for various Meta-owned platforms were logged in plaintext and stored…
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LockBit Ransomware and Evil Corp Leaders Arrested and Sanctioned in Joint Global Effort
/in General NewsA new wave of international law enforcement actions has led to four arrests and the takedown of nine servers linked to the LockBit (aka Bitwise Spider) ransomware operation, marking the latest salvo against what was once a prolific financially motivated group.
This includes the arrest of a suspected LockBit developer in France while on holiday outside of Russia, two individuals in the U.K. who
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Ivanti Endpoint Manager Flaw Actively Targeted, CISA Warns Agencies to Patch
/in General NewsThe U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a security flaw impacting Endpoint Manager (EPM) that the company patched in May to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-29824, carries a CVSS score of 9.6 out of a maximum of 10.0, indicating critical severity.
“An
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China-Backed APT Group Culling Thai Government Data
/in General NewsCeranaKeeper is bombarding Southeast Asia with data exfiltration attacks via file-sharing services such as Pastebin, OneDrive, and GitHub, researchers say.
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