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"Ransomware Attack Disrupts IT Network at Hardenhuish School"A UK secondary school has recently revealed that it was hit by a cyberattack affecting its IT network. Hardenhuish School in Chippenham, Wiltshire, confirmed the attack on Thursday, saying hackers gained access to network infrastructure and then…
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"Texas Bank Breach Exposed Thousands of Social Security Numbers"HSB, a Texas-based financial institution, alerted customers about a Business Email Compromise (BEC) attack that compromised the personal data of thousands of customers. The company notified the Maine Attorney General's Office that threat actors may have…
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"Cybersecurity Teams Are Overconfident of Their Ability to Deal With Threats"Immersive Labs' research found that while businesses are confident in their overall resilience against cyberattacks, security teams are inadequately prepared for cyber threats. The study surveyed 316 global cybersecurity training strategy decision-makers…
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"Vietnamese Hackers Linked to 'Malverposting' Campaign"According to security researchers at Guardio Labs, a recent "malverposting" campaign linked to a Vietnamese threat actor has been ongoing for months and is estimated to have infected over 500,000 devices worldwide in the past three months alone. …
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"Transparent Labeling of Training Data May Boost Trust in Artificial Intelligence"According to researchers at Pennsylvania State University, showing users that visual data input into Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems was correctly labeled could increase people's trust in AI. The team added that the findings could pave the way for…
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"Counting Photons for Quantum Computing"Engineers at Jefferson Lab contributed to the design and construction of a photon detection system that is essential to photonics-based quantum computing and unbreakable encryption. Nuclear physicists and quantum information experts have demonstrated the…
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"Google Bans 173,000 Bad Developers in 2022"Google recently claimed that it is making it harder for malicious developers to get their software published on its Play Store while removing large volumes of bad accounts. Google has revealed that it removed 173,000 bad accounts in 2022 and raised…
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"Man Gets Four Years for Stealing Bitcoins Seized by Feds"An Ohio man has recently been sentenced to four years and three months behind bars after stealing 712 bitcoin ($21m), which were seized by investigators following the arrest of his brother. According to the Department of Justice (DoJ), Gary James…
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"Ukrainian Man Arrested for Selling Data on 300 Million People to Russians"A 36-year-old Ukrainian citizen was recently arrested for allegedly selling personal information belonging to over 300 million people to Russia, according to a statement from the Ukrainian cyber police. The individual used the messaging platform Telegram…
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"FDA, CISA Advise on Genomic Device Software Vulnerabilities"A software patch has been made available to prevent cybersecurity threats to patient care, genomic data, and provider networks posed by software vulnerabilities in benchtop and production-scale genomic sequencing instruments manufactured by Illumina.…
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"ViperSoftX InfoStealer Adopts Sophisticated Techniques to Avoid Detection"Many consumers and businesses in Australia, Japan, the US, and India have been infected with the evasive information-stealing malware ViperSoftX. ViperSoftX was first discovered in 2020, and in November 2022, the cybersecurity company Avast described a…
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"Android Minecraft Clones With 35M Downloads Infect Users With Adware"A collection of 38 Minecraft clones on Google Play infected devices with the Android adware HiddenAds in order to secretly load advertisements in the background to generate revenue for the operators. Numerous game publishers have attempted to replicate…