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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."

'Solid as a paper Whopper wrapper in the rain': Hackers reported 'catastrophic' cybersecurity flaws at Burger King before the fast food giant nuked their criticism off the 'net via DMCA
By Stevie Bonifield published
news The hackers' blog post on the incident can still be accessed via the Wayback Machine.

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.

'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.

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.'

Still using WinRAR? It might be time for an update, as a zero-day vulnerability is being 'exploited in the wild in the guise of job application documents'
By Andy Edser published
News WinArrrrgh.

German phone repair and insurance firm goes bankrupt after paying €200,000 to ransomware hackers despite reported revenue of 70 million
By James Bentley published
News 11% of the company's data was reportedly leaked.

Bad vibes only: A zero-day flaw in popular sex toy app Lovense can leak usernames, email addresses, and other, err, intimate details
By Jess Kinghorn published
News The call is coming from inside the sock drawer.
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