cybersecurity

Hacked, leaked, exposed: Why you should never use stalkerware apps

There is a whole shady industry for people who want to monitor and spy on their families. Multiple app makers market their software — sometimes referred to as stalkerware — to jealous partners who can use these apps to access their victims’ phones remotely.  Yet, despite how sensitive this data is, an increasing number of […]

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FBI says North Korea ‘responsible’ for $1.4 billion Bybit heist

The FBI said the North Korean government is “responsible” for the hack at crypto exchange Bybit, which resulted in the theft of more than $1.4 billion in Ethereum cryptocurrency.  On Wednesday, the bureau released a public advisory, attributing the hack to a group known as TraderTraitor. Contact Us Do you have more information about the

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These alternatives to popular apps can help reclaim your online life from billionaires and surveillance

There is immense power in being in control of your own data. As ownership and governance of apps and online services consolidate, it’s understandable if you want to consider your options when it comes to where you store your private data and records of your everyday activities.  Fortunately, not every service out there is trying

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Hacked crypto exchange Bybit offers $140 million bounty to trace stolen funds

Last week, hackers stole around $1.4 billion in Ethereum cryptocurrency from crypto exchange Bybit, believed to be the largest crypto heist in history. Now, the company is offering a total of $140 million in bounties for anyone who can help trace and freeze the stolen funds. Bybit’s CEO and co-founder Ben Zhou announced the bounty

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Anagram takes a gamified approach to employee cybersecurity training

Despite employers requiring their employees to complete yearly cybersecurity training courses, human-driven cybersecurity breaches still happen. The problem could even get substantially worse as generative AI increases the scale and personalization of social engineering campaigns. Anagram, formerly known as Cipher, is taking a new approach to employee cybersecurity training that the company hopes can keep

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Hackers publish sensitive patient data allegedly stolen from Australian IVF provider Genea

Hackers claim to have published a trove of sensitive data belonging to IVF patients after a cyberattack on Genea, one of Australia’s largest fertility providers.  Genea said last week that it had experienced a cybersecurity incident that led to sensitive patient information potentially being compromised. In a statement given to TechCrunch on Wednesday, Genea CEO

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Thousands of exposed GitHub repositories, now private, can still be accessed through Copilot

Security researchers are warning that data exposed to the internet, even for a moment, can linger in online generative AI chatbots like Microsoft Copilot long after the data is made private. Thousands of once-public GitHub repositories from some of the world’s biggest companies are affected, including Microsoft’s, according to new findings from Lasso, an Israeli cybersecurity

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Thousands of exposed GitHub repos, now private, can still be accessed through Copilot

Security researchers are warning that data exposed to the internet, even for a moment, can linger in online generative AI chatbots like Microsoft Copilot long after the data is made private. Thousands of once-public GitHub repositories from some of the world’s biggest companies are affected, including Microsoft’s, according to new findings from Lasso, an Israeli cybersecurity

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US employee screening giant DISA says hackers accessed data of more than 3M people

DISA Global Solutions, a U.S.-based provider of employee screening services, has said it suffered a data breach that affects more than 3.3 million people. DISA, which provides services like drug and alcohol testing and background checks to more than 55,000 enterprises and a third of Fortune 500 companies, confirmed the data breach in a filing

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Australia bans government use of Kaspersky software due to ‘unacceptable security risk’

Australia has become the latest country to ban government officials from using software made by Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky, arguing that the software poses an “unacceptable security risk.”  Australia’s Department of Home Affairs last week issued a directive that prohibits government agencies from installing Kaspersky products or web services on official systems and devices, citing

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