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Amazon will pay you $10 for your palm prints. Should you be worried?
Malwarebytes Labs - Sat Aug 14, 2021
Retail giant Amazon recently offered to pay $10 USD for your palm prints. More»

New Amazon Kindle Bug Could've Let Attackers Hijack Your eBook Reader
The Hacker News - Fri Aug 6, 2021
Amazon earlier this April addressed a critical vulnerability in its Kindle e-book reader platform that could have been potentially exploited to take full control over a user's device, resulting in the theft of sensitive information by just deploying a malicious e-book. More»

Eternal Change for No Energy: A Time Crystal Finally Made Real
Quanta Magazine - Fri Jul 30, 2021
In a preprint posted online Thursday night, researchers at Google in collaboration with physicists at Stanford, Princeton and other universities say that they have used Google’s quantum computer to demonstrate a genuine “time crystal. More»

Apple Releases Urgent 0-Day Bug Patch for Mac, iPhone and iPad Devices
The Hacker News - Tue Jul 27, 2021
Apple on Monday rolled out an urgent security update for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS to address a zero-day flaw that it said may have been actively exploited, making it the thirteenth such vulnerability Apple has patched since the start of this year. More»

Major Websites Go Down in "Widespread Internet Outage"
CNBC - Thu Jul 22, 2021
Delta Air Lines, British Airways, Capital One, Go Daddy, Vanguard, UPS, LastPass, AT&T and Costco were among the websites loading slowly or showing “DNS failure”. More»

Saudi Aramco facing $50M cyber extortion
Associated Press - Wed Jul 21, 2021
Saudi Arabia’s state oil giant acknowledged Wednesday that leaked data from the company — files now apparently being used in a cyber-extortion attempt involving a $50 million ransom demand — likely came from one of its contractors. More»

Military-grade spyware found on journalists' and activists' phones
The Hill - Sun Jul 18, 2021
Military-grade spyware licensed by an Israeli firm was used in attempts to hack into smartphones belonging to journalists and activists, according to a new investigation by The Washington Post and 16 media partners. More»

Russia Breached GOP in Ransomware Attack
Bloomberg - Tue Jul 6, 2021
Russian government hackers breached the computer systems of the Republican National Committee last week, around the time a Russia-linked criminal group unleashed a massive ransomware attack, according to two people familiar with the matter. More»

A 'Colossal' Ransomware Attack Hits Hundreds Of U.S. Companies
NPR - Sun Jul 4, 2021
WASHINGTON — A ransomware attack paralyzed the networks of at least 200 US companies on Friday, according to a cybersecurity researcher whose company was responding to the incident. More»

Unpatched Virtual Machine Takeover Bug Affects Google Compute Engine
The Hacker News - Wed Jun 30, 2021
An unpatched security vulnerability affecting Google's Compute Engine platform could be abused by an attacker to take over virtual machines over the network. More»

US government seizes dozens of US website domains connected to Iran
CNN - Tue Jun 22, 2021
The United States government has seized dozens of US website domains connected to Iran, linked to what the US says are disinformation efforts, a US national security official told CNN. More»

Hackers steal 26 MILLION logins for Amazon, Apple, Facebook and other tech giants
Daily Mail - Thu Jun 10, 2021
Hackers have stolen 26 million user logins for tech giants including Amazon, Apple, Facebook as well as vital payment information in the latest online security breach. More»

Cyber Criminals Compromised Congress Weeks Ago
Daily Mail - Tue Jun 8, 2021
At least 60 members of Congress from both parties have been unable to access data for weeks in the latest ransomware attack to strike the United States. More»

Your Amazon Devices to Automatically Share Your Wi-Fi With Neighbors
The Hacker News - Tue Jun 1, 2021
Starting June 8, Amazon will automatically enable a feature on its family of hardware devices, including Echo speakers, Ring Video Doorbells, Ring Floodlight Cams, and Ring Spotlight Cams, that will share a small part of your Internet bandwidth with nearby neighbors — unless you choose to opt-out. More»

Microsoft Says Group Behind SolarWinds Hack Targeted 150 Organizations This Week
NBC New York - Fri May 28, 2021
The state-backed Russian cyber spies behind the SolarWinds hacking campaign launched a targeted spear-phishing assault on US and foreign government agencies and think tanks this week using an email marketing account of the US Agency for International Development, Microsoft said. More»

Researchers Link CryptoCore Attacks On Cryptocurrency Exchanges to North Korea
The Hacker News - Mon May 24, 2021
State-sponsored hackers affiliated with North Korea have been behind a slew of attacks on cryptocurrency exchanges over the past three years, new evidence has revealed. More»

Just 12 People Are Behind Most Vaccine Hoaxes On Social Media, Research Shows
NPR - Sat May 15, 2021
Researchers have found just 12 people are responsible for the bulk of the misleading claims and outright lies about COVID-19 vaccines that proliferate on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. More»

The Global Chip Shortage Could Last Until 2023
NBC New York - Thu May 13, 2021
Chips are in everything from PlayStation 5s and toothbrushes to washing machines and alarm clocks. More»

Biden issues executive order following mounting cyberattacks
Axios - Wed May 12, 2021
President Biden signed an executive order Wednesday to improve the country’s cybersecurity following a series of high-profile cyberattacks in both the public and private sectors. More»

Minutes before Trump left office, millions of the Pentagon’s dormant IP addresses sprang to life
Washington Post - Mon Apr 26, 2021
While the world was distracted with President Donald Trump leaving office on January 20, an obscure Florida company discreetly announced to the world’s computer networks a startling development: It now was managing a huge unused swath of the Internet that, for several decades, had been owned by the U. More»

Personal data of 533 million Facebook users leaked online
Business Insider - Sun Apr 4, 2021
A user in a low level hacking forum on Saturday published the phone numbers and personal data of hundreds of millions of Facebook users for free online. More»

Microsoft Issues Security Patches for 89 Flaws - IE 0-Day Under Active Attacks
The Hacker News - Wed Mar 10, 2021
Microsoft plugged as many as 89 security flaws as part of its monthly Patch Tuesday updates released today, including fixes for an actively exploited zero-day in Internet Explorer that could permit an attacker to run arbitrary code on target machines. More»

U.S. issues warning after Microsoft says China hacked its mail server program
Reuters - Thu Mar 4, 2021
The US has issued an emergency warning after Microsoft said it caught China hacking into its mail and calendar server program, called Exchange. More»

Someone tried to poison a Florida city by hacking into the water treatment system
CNN - Mon Feb 8, 2021
OLDSMAR, Florida - A hacker gained access into the water treatment system of Oldsmar, Florida, on Friday and tried to increase the levels of sodium hydroxide -- commonly referred to as lye -- in the city's water, officials said, putting thousands at risk of being poisoned. More»

Security firm Malwarebytes was infected by same hackers who hit SolarWinds
ArsTechnica - Thu Jan 21, 2021
Security firm Malwarebytes said it was breached by the same nation-state-sponsored hackers who compromised a dozen or more US government agencies and private companies. More»

Amazon Is Booting Parler Off Of Its Web Hosting Service
Buzz Feed - Sat Jan 9, 2021
Amazon on Saturday kicked Parler off its Web hosting services. More»

Facebook Bans President Trump From Posting For The Rest Of His Presidency
NPR - Thu Jan 7, 2021
Facebook said Thursday it is banning President Trump until the end of his presidency and possibly longer. More»

A Second Hacker Group May Have Also Breached SolarWinds, Microsoft Says
Hacker News - Wed Dec 23, 2020
As the probe into the SolarWinds supply chain attack continues, new digital forensic evidence has brought to light that a separate threat actor may have been abusing the IT infrastructure provider's Orion software to drop a similar persistent backdoor on target systems. More»

Microsoft says it found malicious software in its systems
Reuters - Thu Dec 17, 2020
SAN FRANCISCO, California - Microsoft Corp said on Thursday it found malicious software in its systems related to a massive hacking campaign disclosed by US officials this week, adding a top technology target to a growing list of attacked government agencies. More»

Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught
Politico - Thu Dec 17, 2020
The Energy Department and National Nuclear Security Administration, which maintains the US nuclear weapons stockpile, have evidence that hackers accessed their networks as part of an extensive espionage operation that has affected at least half a dozen federal agencies, officials directly familiar with the matter said. More»

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