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Durex India spilled customers’ private order data

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Durex India, the Indian subsidiary of the British condom and personal lubricants brand, has exposed its customers’ personal information, including their full names and order details. Security researcher Sourajeet Majumder contacted TechCrunch this week about the issue of exposing sensitive customer data on the condom maker’s website. The brand’s website spilled customer names, phone numbers, […]

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Ex-Twitter CISO Lea Kissner appointed as LinkedIn security chief

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LinkedIn has a new chief information security officer, Lea Kissner. Announcing the appointment in a LinkedIn post (fittingly), Kissner said they are “excited” to take on the new role.  Kissner most recently served as CISO at cloud security startup Lacework. Prior to that, they were Twitter’s CISO until their departure in November 2022, weeks after Elon

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Chinese government hackers targeted U.S. internet providers with zero-day exploit, researchers say

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A group of hackers linked to the Chinese government used a previously unknown vulnerability in software to target U.S. internet service providers, security researchers have found.  The group known as Volt Typhoon was exploiting the zero-day flaw — meaning the software maker was unaware of it before having time to patch — in Versa Director,

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Halliburton shuts down systems after cyberattack

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Oil drilling and fracking giant Halliburton said it has shut down some of its internal systems following a cyberattack earlier this week.  In a brief statement filed with government regulators on Thursday, Halliburton said it became aware of unauthorized access to its systems on Wednesday and responded by “proactively taking certain systems offline.” The company

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Ecovacs says it will fix bugs that can be abused to spy on robot owners

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Earlier this month, security researchers warned that a series of security flaws in vacuum and lawn mower robots made by Ecovacs could allow hackers to spy on their owners through the devices’ microphones and cameras.  At the time, Ecovacs told TechCrunch it concluded that the flaws found by the researchers “are extremely rare in typical

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Typing these four characters could crash your iPhone

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A newly discovered bug causes iPhones and iPads to briefly crash. All you need to trigger the bug are just four characters.  On Wednesday, a security researcher found that typing “”:: can cause the Apple mobile user interface, called Springboard, to crash.  TechCrunch verified that those characters do crash Springboard when typed into the Search

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US government accuses Iran of Trump campaign hack; Iran scoffs

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On Monday, the U.S. government formally accused Iran of hacking the Donald Trump campaign. In a joint statement issued by the FBI, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency or CISA, the three agencies said that the intelligence community attributes the recently disclosed hack and leak

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