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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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FlightAware warns that some customers’ info has been ‘exposed,’ including Social Security numbers

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Flight tracking site FlightAware has blamed a “configuration error” for exposing a raft of personal information of its customers, including some of their Social Security numbers. The company, which claims to be one of the largest aggregators of flight data, said in a notice on its website that it identified the unspecified error on July

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How the ransomware attack at Change Healthcare went down: A timeline

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A ransomware attack earlier this year on UnitedHealth-owned health tech company Change Healthcare likely stands as one of the largest data breaches of U.S. health and medical data in history. Months after the February data breach, a “substantial proportion of people living in America” are receiving notice by mail that their personal and health information

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OpenAI shuts down election influence operation using ChatGPT

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OpenAI has banned a cluster of ChatGPT accounts linked to an Iranian influence operation that was generating content about the U.S. presidential election, according to a blog post on Friday. The company says the operation created AI-generated articles and social media posts, though it doesn’t seem that it reached much of an audience. This is

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Trump campaign hack-and-leak appears like a rerun of 2016. This time, media outlets are responding differently

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This weekend, Politico dropped a news bombshell: A person who only goes by “Robert” had shared with the news organization documents allegedly stolen from the Donald Trump presidential campaign.  Since then, we have learned that The New York Times and The Washington Post have also heard from the same person and received some stolen documents.

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Texas firm says it lost $60M in a bank wire transfer scam

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Texas-based carbon black company Orion informed investors that it lost $60 million after falling victim to a criminal scheme that resulted in “multiple fraudulently induced outbound wire transfers to accounts controlled by unknown third parties.”  No further specifics were given, but these schemes typically involve fraudsters tricking employees at a company — often in finance

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Kiteworks captures $456M at a $1B+ valuation to help secure sensitive data

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Mark up another unicorn and large funding round for the cybersecurity industry: Kiteworks, a company that builds tools to secure email communications, file sharing, and other situations where people are working with sensitive or proprietary data outside their firewalls, has raised $456 million from Insight Partners and Sixth Street Growth. The investment values the company

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US appeals court rules geofence warrants are unconstitutional

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A federal appeals court has ruled that geofence warrants are unconstitutional, a decision that will limit the use of the controversial search warrants across several U.S. states. The Friday ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which covers Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas, found that geofence warrants are “categorically prohibited by the

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FBI takes down ransomware gang that hacked dozens of companies

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FBI’s seizure notice of the Radar/Dispossessor ransomware and extortion gang. Image Credits: FBI The FBI said Monday it seized the servers of a ransomware and extortion gang called Radar (aka Dispossessor). At the time of writing, Radar’s website features a message from law enforcement, reading: “This website has been seized.” It’s a rare win for

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The biggest data breaches in 2024: 1 billion stolen records and rising

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We’re over halfway through 2024, and already this year we have seen some of the biggest, most damaging data breaches in recent history. And just when you think that some of these hacks can’t get any worse, they do. From huge stores of customers’ personal information getting scraped, stolen and posted online, to reams of

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