A security researcher says he found a flaw in a traffic light controller that would potentially allow malicious hackers to change the lights and create traffic jams. Andrew Lemon, a researcher at cybersecurity firm Red Threat, published two blog posts on Thursday detailing his findings of a wider research project investigating the security of traffic […]
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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The money transfer and fintech company Wise announced on Friday that some of its customers’ personal data may have been stolen in the recent data breach at Evolve Bank and Trust. The news highlights that the fallout from the Evolve data breach on third-party companies — and their customers and users — is still unclear,
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On Wednesday, Evolve Bank and Trust, a financial institution that’s popular with fintech startups, announced that it had been victim of a cyberattack and data breach that could have affected its partner companies as well. The incident, according to the company’s statement, involved “the data and personal information of some Evolve retail bank customers and
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Last week, the U.S. government announced an unprecedented ban on selling in the United States any software made by the Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky. Just days after the ban’s announcement, some American companies that are official Kaspersky resellers — or managed service provider (MSP) partners — say they have been left confused, angry and worried
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Over the weekend, a clip from a recent interview with Telegram’s founder Pavel Durov went semi-viral on X (previously Twitter). In the video, Durov tells right-wing personality Tucker Carlson that he is the only product manager at the company, and that he only employs “about 30 engineers.” Security experts say that while Durov was bragging
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The U.S. government announced Friday sanctions against twelve executives and senior leaders of the Russia-based cybersecurity giant Kaspersky. In a press release, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said it designated the twelve company executives to protect internet users against malicious cyber threats. “Today’s action against the leadership of Kaspersky
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A researcher has found a bug that allows anyone to impersonate Microsoft corporate email accounts, making phishing attempts look credible and more likely to trick their targets. As of this writing, the bug has not been patched. To demonstrate the bug, the researcher sent an email to TechCrunch that looked like it was sent from
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Since April, a hacker with a history of selling stolen data has claimed a data breach of billions of records — impacting at least 300 million people — from a U.S. data broker, which would make it one of the largest alleged data breaches of the year. The data, seen by TechCrunch, on its own
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TikTok says its security team is addressing an issue that allowed hackers to compromise several high-profile celeb and brand accounts on its video platform, including those belonging to Paris Hilton, CNN and Sony. The ByteDance-owned video app maker didn’t provide any information about the nature of the attack or the company’s mitigation techniques, instead saying
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