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"Putin Speech Interrupted by DDoS Attack"On Tuesday, a suspected distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack downed several websites broadcasting President Putin's state of the nation address. Reuters said journalists based in multiple locations were unable to access the All-Russia State…
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"picoCTF Aims to Close the Cybersecurity Talent Gap"The annual online hacking competition picoCTF was founded in 2013 by the Carnegie Mellon University CyLab Security and Privacy Institute. It aims to introduce cybersecurity to the future workforce. The competition offers a gamified way for college, high…
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"Fifth of Brits Have Fallen Victim to Online Scammers"According to researchers at F-Secure, millions of UK adults have been victimized by digital scammers in the past, yet a quarter have no security controls to protect their online activity. The researchers found that 19%, roughly 12.6 million Brits,…
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"Israel's Top Tech University Targeted by DarkBit Ransomware"Technion Israel Institute of Technology (IIT) was targeted in a ransomware attack launched by the DarkBit hacker gang, which has demanded an 80-Bitcoin payout worth around $1.7 million at press time. BlackBerry said the institution reported the incident…
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"Suffolk County Starting to Restore Online Services Amid Months-Long Cyberattack"Suffolk County has suffered from the effects of a massive cyberattack for months, but progress has been made to restore security. According to County Executive Steve Bellone, the clerk's office has been deemed clean and can now start to restore…
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"New Research Suggests That Privacy in the Metaverse Might Be Impossible"A new study from the University of California, Berkeley, suggests that privacy in the metaverse may be unattainable without the development of novel user protections. The recently published study, led by graduate researcher Vivek Nair and conducted at…
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"DNA Diagnostic Center fined $400,000 for 2021 data breach"DNA Diagnostics Center, a DNA testing company, will pay a penalty of $400,000 to the attorneys general of Pennsylvania and Ohio for a data breach in 2021 that affected 2.1 million individuals nationwide. According to a settlement deal with the…
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"A New Kind of Bug Spells Trouble for iOS and macOS Security"A study has found a new class of vulnerabilities impacting Apple's iPhone and Mac operating systems, which, if abused, can allow an attacker to access messages, photos, and call logs. Researchers from the Advanced Research Center of the security…
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"Newly Disclosed Vulnerability Exposes EOL Arris Routers to Attacks"Malwarebytes recently warned of a remote code execution vulnerability impacting several Arris routers, for which proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code has been released. Tracked as CVE-2022-45701, the bug exists because the router firmware does not…
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"Resecurity Warns about Cyber-Attacks on Data Center Service Providers"The cybersecurity company Resecurity has released a report stating that, in September 2021, it alerted multiple data center organizations about malicious cyber activities being performed against them and their customers. Nation-state, criminal, and cyber…
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"HardBit Ransomware Wants Insurance Details to Set the Perfect Price"The HardBit ransomware threat has been upgraded to version 2.0, and its operators are attempting to negotiate a ransom payment that the victim's insurance would cover. The threat actor tries to persuade the victim that it is in their best interest to…