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Do VPNs Change or Hide Your IP Address?
/in General NewsWill a virtual private network change your IP address? Find out in this article and discover what a VPN doesn’t hide.
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The Unusual Espionage Act Case Against a Drone Photographer
/in General NewsIn seemingly the first case of its kind, the US Justice Department has charged a Chinese national with using a drone to photograph a Virginia shipyard where the US Navy was assembling nuclear submarines.
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Massive 911 S5 Botnet Dismantled, Chinese Mastermind Arrested
/in General NewsThe US announced that the 911 S5 (Cloud Router) botnet, likely the world’s largest, has been dismantled and its administrator arrested.
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Ransomware Attack Disrupts Seattle Public Library Services
/in General NewsThe Seattle Public Library is scrambling to bring systems online after shutting them down to contain a ransomware attack.
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U.S. Dismantles World’s Largest 911 S5 Botnet, with 19 Million Infected Devices
/in General NewsThe U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday said it dismantled what it described as “likely the world’s largest botnet ever,” which consisted of an army of 19 million infected devices that was leased to other threat actors to commit a wide array of offenses.
The botnet, which has a global footprint spanning more than 190 countries, functioned as a residential proxy service known as 911 S5.
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Check Point VPN Attacks Involve Zero-Day Exploited Since April
/in General NewsThe recently disclosed Check Point VPN attacks involve the zero-day vulnerability CVE-2024-24919, which allows hackers to obtain passwords.
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Okta Warns of Credential Stuffing Attacks Targeting Customer Identity Cloud
/in General NewsOkta is warning that a cross-origin authentication feature in Customer Identity Cloud (CIC) is susceptible to credential stuffing attacks orchestrated by threat actors.
“We observed that the endpoints used to support the cross-origin authentication feature being attacked via credential stuffing for a number of our customers,” the Identity and access management (IAM) services provider said.
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9 Tips to Avoid Burnout in Cybersecurity
/in General NewsWhen security professionals are at the end of their rope — feeling both mentally and physically exhausted — it’s often because of burnout. Here are ways to combat it.
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VicOne Partners With 42Crunch to Deliver Comprehensive Security Across SDV and Connected-Vehicle Ecosystem
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Leak Site BreachForums Springs Back to Life Weeks After FBI Takedown
/in General NewsIt’s unclear whether a dataset for sale on the site allegedly containing data from more than 500 million TicketMaster users is real or just law enforcement bait.
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