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· 2d
Have I Been Pwned logs 17.6M victims in Prosper breach
P2P lending platform says it could not verify the claims at present Data breach tracker HaveIBeenPwned claims the victim count of peer-to-peer lender Prosper's September cyberattack stands at 17.6 million.…
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· 2d
Vulnerability scores, huh, what are they good for? Almost nothing
CVE and CVSS systems suffer from misaligned incentives and inconsistency Aram Hovespyan, co-founder and CEO of security biz Codific, says that the rating systems for identifying security vulnerabilities and assessing threat risk need to be overhauled.…
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· 3d
Chinese cyberspies snoop on Russian IT biz in rare east-on-east attack
Who needs enemies when you have friends like Xi? China's cyberspies quietly broke into a Russian IT service provider in what researchers say is a rare example of Beijing turning its digital gaze on Moscow.…
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· 3d
Locked out of your Gmail account? Google says phone a friend
Recovery feature lets trusted contacts help you get back in when other methods fail The latest security feature for Gmail enables users to recover their accounts with a little help from their friends.…
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· 3d
Senator presses Cisco over firewall flaws that burned US agency
Bill Cassidy letter asks if Switchzilla sat on critical flaws before feds were forced into emergency patching US Senator Bill Cassidy has fired off a pointed letter to Cisco over the firewall flaws that allegedly let hackers breach "at least one federal agency."…
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· 3d
Auction house Sotheby's finds its data on the block after cyberattack
Alert says financial account information lifted from systems Auction house Sotheby's says it was breached on July 24, and those behind the intrusion stole an unspecified amount of data, including Social Security numbers and financial account information.…
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· 3d
Tech industry grad hiring crashes 46% as bots do junior work
GenAI meets Gen Z – only one gets the job ai-pocalypse The UK tech sector is cutting graduate jobs dramatically – down 46 percent in the past year, with another 53 percent drop projected, according to figures from the Institute of Student Employers (ISE).…
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· 4d
Devs are writing VS Code extensions that blab secrets by the bucketload
Vibe coding may have played a role in what took researchers months to fix Developers of VS Code extensions are leaking sensitive secrets left, right and center, according to researchers who worked with Microsoft to combat an issue that could have led to some nasty supply chain attacks.…
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· 4d
Capita fined £14M after 58-hour delay exposed 6.6M records
ICO makes example of outsourcing giant over sluggish cyber response The UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has issued a £14 million ($18.6 million) penalty to outsourcing giant Capita following a catastrophic 2023 cyberattack that exposed the personal data of 6.6 million people.…
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· 5d
Asahi breach leaves bitter taste as brewer fears personal data slurped
Japan's beer behemoth still mopping up after ransomware spill that disrupted deliveries and delayed results Asahi's cyber hangover just got worse, with the brewer now admitting that personal information may have been tapped in last month's attack.…
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· 5d
Oracle rushes out another emergency E-Business Suite patch as Clop fallout widens
Latest in a long line of EBS flaws leta miscreants remotely compromise enterprise systems to pinch sensitive data Oracle is rushing out another emergency patch for its embattled E-Business Suite as the fallout from the Clop-linked attacks continues to spread.…
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· 5d
British govt agents demand action after UK mega-cyberattacks surge 50%
Warn businesses to act now as high-severity incidents keep climbing Cyberattacks that meet upper severity thresholds set by the UK government's cyber agents have risen 50 percent in the last year, despite almost zero change in the volume of cases handled.…
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· 6d
Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters rage-quit the internet (again), promise to return next year
'We will never stop,' say crooks, despite retiring twice in the space of a month The Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters (SLSH) cybercrime collective - compriseed primarily of teenagers and twenty-somethings - announced it will go dark until 2026 following the FBI's seizure of its clearweb site.…
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· 6d
Microsoft 'illegally' tracked students via 365 Education, says data watchdog
Redmond argued schools, education authorities are responsible for GDPR An Austrian digital privacy group has claimed victory over Microsoft after the country's data protection regulator ruled the software giant "illegally" tracked students via its 365 Education platform and used their data.…
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· 6d
China probes Qualcomm's Autotalks deal amid rising US trade tensions
Beijing insists it's business as usual – Washington might see it differently China's competition regulator has launched an investigation into Qualcomm's purchase of Israeli firm Autotalks, the latest salvo in the escalating tech trade war between Washington and Beijing.…
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· 6d
Ofcom fines 4chan £20K and counting for pretending UK's Online Safety Act doesn't exist
Regulator warns penalties will pile up until internet toilet does its paperwork Ofcom, the UK's Online Safety Act regulator, has fined online message board 4chan £20,000 ($26,680) for failing to protect children from harmful content.…
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· 9d
Microsoft warns of 'payroll pirate' crew looting US university salaries
Crooks phish campus staff, slip into HR systems, and quietly reroute paychecks Microsoft's Threat Intelligence team has sounded the alarm over a new financially-motivated cybercrime spree that is raiding US university payroll systems.…
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· 9d
It's trivially easy to poison LLMs into spitting out gibberish, says Anthropic
Just 250 malicious training documents can poison a 13B parameter model - that's 0.00016% of a whole dataset Poisoning AI models might be way easier than previously thought if an Anthropic study is anything to go on. …
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· 11d
Take this rob and shove it! Salesforce issues stern retort to ransomware extort
CRM giant 'will not engage, negotiate with, or pay' the scumbags Salesforce won't pay a ransom demand to criminals who claim to have stolen nearly 1 billion customer records and are threatening to leak the data if the CRM giant doesn't pony up some cash.…
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· 11d
Germany slams brakes on EU's Chat Control device-scanning snoopfest
Berlin's opposition likely kills off Brussels' bid to scan everyone's messages Germany has committed to oppose the EU's controversial "Chat Control" regulations following huge pressure from multiple activists and major organizations.…
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· 12d
Nearly a year after attack, US medical scanning biz gets clear image of stolen patient data
No fraud monitoring and no apology after miscreants make off with medical, financial data Florida-based Doctors Imaging Group has admitted that the sensitive medical and financial data of 171,862 patients was stolen during the course of a November 2024 cyberattack.…
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· 13d
Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters offering $10 in Bitcoin to 'endlessly harass' execs
Crime group claims to have already doled out $1K to those in it 'for money and for the love of the game' Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters has launched an unusual crowdsourced extortion scheme, offering $10 in Bitcoin to anyone willing to help pressure their alleged victims into paying ransoms.…
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· 13d
Radiant Group won't touch kids' data now, but apparently hospitals are fair game
Ransomware crooks utterly fail to find moral compass First they targeted a preschool network, now new kids on the ransomware block Radiant Group say they've hit a hospital in the US, continuing their deplorable early cybercrime careers.…
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· 13d
Thieves steal IDs and payment info after data leaks from Discord support vendor
Outsourcing your helpdesk always seems like a good idea – until someone else's breach becomes your problem Discord has confirmed customers' data was stolen – but says the culprit wasn't its own servers, just a compromised support vendor.…
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· 13d
Clop crew hits Oracle E-Business Suite users with fresh zero-day
Big Red rushes out patch for 9.8-rated flaw after crooks exploit it for data theft and extortion Oracle rushed out an emergency fix over the weekend for a zero-day vulnerability in its E-Business Suite (EBS) that criminal crew Clop has already abused for data theft and extortion.…
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