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People are falling for AI phishing attempts 4.5x more often than human ones but the solutions are the same as ever

By Jacob Fox Published

News Just tread more carefully.

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Big networking software hack seemingly backed by China poses a 'significant cyber threat targeting federal networks'

By Jacob Fox Published

News The exfiltrated data relates to networking software used by big companies and government organisations.

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'They just really didn't think anyone would look up': Researchers snooped on unencrypted satellite data with basic equipment, finding private calls, text messages, and even military communications

By Andy Edser Last updated

News 'They assumed that no one was ever going to check and scan all these satellites and see what was out there. That was their method of security.'

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Fallout Shelter, Pentiment, and other Unity games have been delisted on Steam thanks to Unity's security vulnerability

By Jody Macgregor Published

Though hopefully not for long.

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One UK national arrested in joint-US operation is accused of being part of Scattered Spider, a group involved 'in a sweeping cyber extortion scheme' that resulted in over $115,000,000 in ransomware payments from victims

By Nick Evanson Published

News A life sentence in prison, on either side of the Atlantic Ocean, is one possible outcome.

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'Microsoft has become like an arsonist selling firefighting services to their victims' says US senator, referring it to the FTC for a cybersecurity flaw, though Microsoft says it has a plan

By Andy Edser Last updated

News "There is one company benefiting from this status quo: Microsoft itself."

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Eye scans and digital IDs to stop online bots in games: It's not quite as Orwellian as you might think but proof-of-human isn't problem-free

By Jacob Fox Last updated

Machine wars Iris scans and face scans? Or do we need a "new class of solutions"?

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A free Chrome VPN with over 100,000 installations has been accused of snapping unauthorised screenshots of websites and spying on its users location data

By Andy Edser Published

News Put the camera down, and back away slowly.

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'One of the most powerful DDoS botnets to ever exist' has been taken down by the DoJ with help from Amazon Web Services, Google, Cloudflare and others

By Andy Edser Published

News It's not quite "those meddling kids", but I'll take it.

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A free chicken nugget hack helped uncover multiple McDonald's cybersecurity fails: 'All I had to do was change login to register in the URL' to access 'highly confidential and proprietary information'

By Andy Edser Published

News 'They fixed the vulnerabilities after I literally had to cold-call their HQ pretending to know security employees. This is that story.'

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