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Apple fixes new security flaw used in ‘extremely sophisticated attack’

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Apple released patches for a bug that it says “may have been exploited in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals,” citing a report. The zero-day bug was found in WebKit, the browser engine powering Safari and other apps, and allowed hackers to break out of WebKit’s protective sandbox with “maliciously crafted web content,” […]

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DOGE axes CISA ‘red team’ staffers amid ongoing federal cuts

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Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has fired more than a hundred employees working for the U.S. government’s cybersecurity agency CISA, including “red team” staffers, two people affected by the layoffs told TechCrunch.  The people, who asked not to be named, said affected employees were axed immediately when their network access was revoked with

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FTC says Americans lost $12.5B to scams last year — social media, AI and crypto didn’t help

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You’re not the only one getting voicemails about your car’s extended warranty. According to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), about 2.6 million people submitted reports on falling victim to fraud in 2024, totaling $12.5 billion in losses. That’s a big jump from $2.5 billion lost in 2023, when the FTC received roughly the same

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Trump nominates Sean Plankey as new CISA director 

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President Donald Trump nominated Sean Plankey to head the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), according to a White House email sent to journalists on Tuesday. Plankey has several years of experience working for the U.S. government. In 2013, Plankey gave cybersecurity support to U.S. forces deployed in Afghanistan, then worked at U.S. Cyber Command,

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Some say passkeys are clunky — this startup wants to change that

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Passwords are ubiquitous, despite not being foolproof and cannot alone protect your online identity. Almost one-third of data breaches reported over the past decade happened due to stolen credentials, per Verizon, including some of the biggest breaches of all time. Instead, the industry has largely found passkeys arguably the most prominent solution to replace passwords.

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What PowerSchool won’t say about its data breach affecting millions of students

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We’re only a few months into 2025, but the recent hack of U.S. edtech giant PowerSchool is on track to be one of the biggest education data breaches in recent years.  PowerSchool, which provides K-12 software to more than 18,000 schools to support some 60 million students across North America, first disclosed the data breach

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Hacker accessed PowerSchool’s network months before massive December breach

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A hacker compromised the U.S. edtech giant PowerSchool months before its ‘massive’ data breach in December, according to a now-published forensic report into the incident conducted by U.S. cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike. In a letter sent to affected customers last week, seen by TechCrunch, PowerSchool confirmed that an investigation into the incident has revealed that its

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Japanese telco giant NTT Com says hackers accessed details of almost 18,000 organizations

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Japanese telecom giant NTT Communications (NTT Com) has confirmed that hackers accessed the data of almost 18,000 corporate customers during a February cyberattack, affecting an as-yet-unknown number of individuals. The Tokyo-based NTT Com, which provides phone and network tech to enterprises, said it discovered the data breach on February 5 after determining that the hackers

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FBI says scammers are targeting US executives with fake BianLian ransom notes

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The FBI is warning that scammers are impersonating the BianLian ransomware gang using fake ransom notes sent to U.S. corporate executives. The fake ransom notes, first reported by U.S. cybersecurity company GuidePoint Security, claim that hackers have gained access to an organization’s network to steal sensitive data, and threaten to publish the stolen data unless

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Anthropic’s Claude Code tool had a bug that ‘bricked’ some systems

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The launch of Anthropic’s coding tool, Claude Code, is off to a rocky start. According to reports on GitHub, Claude Code’s auto-update function contained buggy commands that rendered some workstations unstable and broken. When Claude Code was installed at the “root” or “superuser” levels — permissions that give programs the ability to make operating system-level

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