Since the implementation of Europe's new digital privacy regulations, over 160,000 data breaches have been reported to authorities. An analyst at the law firm DLA Piper found that after the General …
Critical WordPress Bug Leaves 320,000 Sites Open to Attack
Infinite Client and WP Time Capsule, two WordPress plugins, contain vulnerabilities that leave sites open to attack. The bug is a critical authorization complication that allows adversaries access to …
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U.S. Army Hacked By 52 Hackers In Five Weeks
Between October 9 and November 15 of 2019, the US Army was hacked by a total of 52 individual hackers. The ethical hackers participated in the second "Hack the Army" event. A spokesperson at the US …
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FBI: Nation-state actors have breached two US municipalities
Last year, nation-state hackers breached the networks of two US municipalities according to the FBI. The agency sent out a security alert to private industry partners announcing the breaches last …
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Kubernetes bug bounty program open to anyone, rewards up to $10,000
Kubernetes has announced that they plan to launch a bug bounty program with rewards as high as $10,000. The company was originally designed by Google but has since been open-sourced and handed over to …
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U.N. Weathers Storm of Emotet-TrickBot Malware
Emotet malware operators have recently targeted the United Nations personnel in an attack that aimed to deliver the TrickBot trojan malware. Researchers at Confense stated that a phishing campaign …
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Google removes WhatsGap from app store
Tech and search engine giant Google recently removed a popular Hong Kong pro-democracy mapping app from its app store. WhatsGap is an app that identifies retailers in support of Hong Kong's democracy. …
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Chinese man arrested after making $1.6 million from selling VPN services
Chinese authorities have launched a crackdown against sellers and vendors of unauthorized VPN software within the country. China has been particularly focused on catching sellers advertising VPN …
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2017 Data Breach Will Cost Equifax at Least $1.38 Billion
Equifax has agreed to set aside a minimum of $380.5 million for breach compensation and promises to spend another $1 billion on elevating its information security over the next five years. Customers …
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Texas School District Loses $2.3m in Phishing Raid
A Texas school district, Manor Independent School, has been hit by a series of phishing attacks that posed a serious financial threat to the district, costing the entity an estimated $2.3 million. The …
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