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Bangladeshi police agents accused of selling citizens’ personal information on Telegram

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Two senior officials working for anti-terror police in Bangladesh allegedly collected and sold classified and personal information of citizens to criminals on Telegram, TechCrunch has learned.  The data allegedly sold included national identity details of citizens, cell phone call records and other “classified secret information,” according to a letter signed by a senior Bangladeshi intelligence […]

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Hundreds of Snowflake customer passwords found online are linked to info-stealing malware

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Cloud data analysis company Snowflake is at the center of a recent spate of alleged data thefts, as its corporate customers scramble to understand if their stores of cloud data have been compromised.  The Boston-based data giant helps some of the largest global corporations — including banks, healthcare providers and tech companies — store and

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Live Nation confirms Ticketmaster was hacked, says personal information stolen in data breach

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Entertainment giant Live Nation has confirmed its ticketing subsidiary Ticketmaster has been hacked. Live Nation confirmed the data breach in a filing with government regulators late on Friday after the markets closed. In its statement, Live Nation said the breach occurred on May 20, and that a cybercriminal “offered what it alleged to be Company

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Hacked, leaked, exposed: Why you should never use stalkerware apps

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Last week, an unknown hacker broke into the servers of the U.S.-based stalkerware maker pcTattletale. The hacker then stole and leaked the company’s internal data. They also defaced pcTattletale’s official website with the goal of embarrassing the company.  “This took a total of 15 minutes from reading the techcrunch article,” the hackers wrote in the

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Zero-day flaw in Check Point VPNs is ‘extremely easy’ to exploit

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Cybersecurity company Check Point says attackers are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in its enterprise VPN products to break into the corporate networks of its customers.  The technology maker hasn’t said yet who is responsible for the cyberattacks or how many of its customers are affected by intrusions linked to the vulnerability, which security researchers say

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Chinese EVs – and their connected tech – are the next target of US lawmakers

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U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin will introduce a bill to Congress that would limit or ban the introduction of connected vehicles built by Chinese companies if found to pose a threat to national security.  The bill comes as the trade war between the U.S. and China heightens in the aftermath of the Biden administration’s decision to

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Spyware maker pcTattletale shutters after data breach

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The founder of the spyware app pcTattletale said his company is “out of business and completely done” following a data breach over the weekend. The shutdown comes days after a hacker defaced the spyware maker’s website and published links containing large amounts of data from pcTattletale’s servers, including databases of customers’ information and some victims’

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Spyware app pcTattletale was hacked and its website defaced

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U.S.-made consumer-grade spyware app pcTattletale has been hacked and its internal data published to its own website, according to a hacker who claimed responsibility for the breach. The hacker posted a message on pcTattletale”s website late Friday, claiming to have hacked the servers containing pcTattletale’s operations. The spyware maker’s website briefly contained links containing files

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