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US defense contractor who sold hacking tools to Russian broker ordered to pay $10M to former employers
Peter Williams, a veteran cybersecurity executive who was the head of the hacking and surveillance tech division of U.S. defense…
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Hackers deface school login pages after claiming another Instructure hack
On Tuesday, education tech giant Instructure disclosed a data breach where hackers stole students’ private information, including their names, personal…
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How Anthropic’s Mythos has rewritten Firefox’s approach to cybersecurity
When Anthropic unveiled its new Mythos model in April, it also delivered a stern warning to anyone developing software. The…
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Hackers steal students’ data during breach at education tech giant Instructure
Education tech giant Instructure has confirmed a data breach affecting students’ private information. The hacking and extortion gang ShinyHunters claimed…
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US government warns of severe CopyFail bug affecting major versions of Linux
A severe security vulnerability affecting almost every version of the Linux operating system has caught defenders off-guard and scrambling to…
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Hackers are still exploiting the cPanel bug to gain control of thousands of websites
Nearly a week after the makers of the popular web server management software cPanel and WebHost Manager (WHM) alerted users…
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US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants
Almost all of the 20 U.S. state government-run health insurance marketplaces shared residents’ application information with advertising and tech giants,…
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Ubuntu services hit by outages after DDoS attack
Hacktivists have claimed responsibility for taking down the public-facing infrastructure of popular Linux operating system distribution Ubuntu, as well as…
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Hackers are actively exploiting a bug in cPanel, used by millions of websites
Security researchers are sounding the alarm on a newly discovered vulnerability in the widely used web server management software cPanel…
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Sri Lanka discloses another missing payment, days after hackers stole $2.5M from its finance ministry
Sri Lanka said on Tuesday that a payment of about $625,000 (about 199.7 million Sri Lankan rupees) to the U.S.…
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Paragon is not collaborating with Italian authorities probing spyware attacks, report says
Last year, WhatsApp and Apple notified several people in Italy, including journalists and activists, that they had been targeted with…
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US Supreme Court appears split over controversial use of ‘geofence’ search warrants
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday heard arguments in a landmark legal case that could redefine digital privacy rights for…
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