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Citizen Lab director warns cyber industry about US authoritarian descent

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The director of Citizen Lab, one of the most prominent organizations investigating government spyware abuses, is sounding the alarm to the cybersecurity community and asking them to step up and join the fight against authoritarianism.  On Wednesday, Ron Deibert will deliver a keynote at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas, one of the […]

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The best hacks and security research from Black Hat and Def Con 2024

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Thousands of hackers, researchers and security professionals descended on the Black Hat and Def Con security conferences in Las Vegas this week, an annual pilgrimage aimed at sharing the latest research, hacks, and knowledge across the security community. And TechCrunch was on the ground to report on the back-to-back shows and to cover some of

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CrowdStrike accepts award for ‘most epic fail’ after global IT outage

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Just a few weeks after its software update triggered a global IT meltdown, CrowdStrike isn’t shying away from the spotlight. In fact, the company’s president Michael Sentonas even took the stage at the Pwnie Awards to accept the award for Most Epic Fail. The awards took place at Def Con, right after the Black Hat conference where CrowdStrike had

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After global IT meltdown, CrowdStrike courts hackers with action figures and gratitude

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On Wednesday morning, thousands of cybersecurity professionals swarmed the halls of the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, the epicenter of the annual Black Hat cybersecurity conference, where dozens of companies were advertising their wares.  In the first row and with one of the biggest booths stood CrowdStrike, a company that has recently become

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Security bugs in ransomware leak sites helped save six companies from paying hefty ransoms

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A security researcher says six companies were saved from having to pay potentially hefty ransom demands, in part thanks to rookie security flaws found in the web infrastructure used by the ransomware gangs themselves. Two companies received the decryption keys to unscramble their data without having to pay the cybercriminals a ransom, and four hacked

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Hackers could spy on cellphone users by abusing 5G baseband flaws, researchers say

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A group of researchers say they have uncovered a series of security flaws in different 5G basebands — essentially processors used by cellphones to connect to mobile networks — which could have allowed hackers to stealthily hack victims and spy on them.  The researchers from Pennsylvania State University presented their findings at the Black Hat

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