cybersecurity

Google says its AI-based bug hunter found 20 security vulnerabilities

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Google’s AI-powered bug hunter has just reported its first batch of security vulnerabilities.  Heather Adkins, Google’s vice president of security, announced Monday that its LLM-based vulnerability researcher Big Sleep found and reported 20 flaws in various popular open source software. Adkins said that Big Sleep, which is developed by the company’s AI department DeepMind as […]

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North Korean spies posing as remote workers have infiltrated hundreds of companies, says CrowdStrike

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Researchers at security giant CrowdStrike say they have seen hundreds of cases where North Koreans posing as remote IT workers have infiltrated companies to generate money for the regime, marking a sharp increase over previous years. Per CrowdStrike’s latest threat hunting report, the company has identified over 320 incidents over the past 12 months, up

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Sex toy maker Lovense threatens legal action after fixing security flaws that exposed users’ data

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Lovense, a maker of internet-connected sex toys, has confirmed it has fixed a pair of security vulnerabilities that exposed users’ private email addresses and allowed attackers to remotely take over any user’s account. While the company said the bugs were “fully resolved,” its chief executive is now considering taking legal action following the disclosure. In

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Authorities seize BlackSuit ransomware gang’s servers

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German prosecutors say a joint U.S.-European operation has seized infrastructure belonging to the BlackSuit ransomware gang, a notorious hacking group blamed for several major cyberattacks in recent years. In a new statement this week, officials in Germany said they had seized the gang’s servers and systems as part of an operation on July 24. The

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Hackers stole Social Security numbers during Allianz Life cyberattack

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Hackers who breached U.S. insurance giant Allianz Life earlier this month stole reams of customer Social Security numbers, according to notifications filed with several U.S. states and seen by TechCrunch. Allianz Life disclosed the July 16 breach this past weekend, confirming to TechCrunch the unidentified hackers stole the personally identifiable information belonging to the “majority”

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Minnesota activates National Guard as cyberattack on Saint Paul disrupts public services

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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has activated the state’s National Guard following a cyberattack on the state’s capital, Saint Paul. City officials have not yet disclosed the nature of the cyberattack, but the July 25 breach continues to disrupt city operations and some public services.  Saint Paul is one of the largest cities in the U.S.

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Google says UK government has not demanded an encryption backdoor for its users’ data

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The U.K. government is reportedly backing down from its earlier demand that Apple builds a secret backdoor allowing its authorities access to customer data worldwide, following a harsh rebuke from the U.S. government. But one U.S. senator wants to know if other tech giants, like Google, have also received secret backdoor demands from the U.K.

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Google won’t say if UK secretly demanded a backdoor for user data

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The U.K. government is reportedly backing down from its earlier demand that Apple builds a secret backdoor allowing its authorities access to customer data worldwide, following a harsh rebuke from the U.S. government.  But one U.S. senator wants to know if other tech giants, like Google, have also received secret backdoor demands from the U.K.

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Telecom giant Orange warns of disruption amid ongoing cyberattack

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Orange, a French telecommunications giant and one of the largest phone providers in the world, announced on Monday that it was the victim of an unspecified cyberattack. In the announcement, the company said that it detected a cyberattack “on one of its information systems” on July 25, and that it proceeded to “isolate potentially affected

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Sex toy maker Lovense caught leaking users’ email addresses and exposing accounts to takeovers

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A security researcher says sex toy maker Lovense has failed to fully fix two security flaws that expose the private email address of its users and allow the takeover of any user’s account. The researcher, who goes by the handle BobDaHacker, published details of the bugs on Monday after Lovense claimed it would need 14

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