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"Cyberthreats, Regulations Mount for Financial Industry"The cybersecurity landscape for financial institutions and finance technology (fintech) has shifted significantly over the past several years, and this trend is projected to continue in 2023. According to a report published by the Financial Services…
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"Attackers Flood NPM Repository with Over 15,000 Spam Packages Containing Phishing Links"About 15,000 spam packages have flooded the NPM repository in an effort to distribute phishing links, as part of an ongoing attack on the open-source ecosystem. Checkmarx researcher Yehuda Gelb stated in a recent report that the packages were developed…
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"Over 98 Percent of Organizations Have Misconfigured Clouds"A new survey conducted by Zscaler reveals that 98.6 percent of organizations have misconfigured settings in their cloud environments that pose critical risks to their data and infrastructure. Cloud misconfiguration errors associated with public access to…
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"Call of Duty Developer Confirms Phishing Attempt but Not Breach"Activision has recently confirmed it suffered a cybersecurity incident in December 2022 but failed to provide more detail on the suspected data breach. The Call of Duty developer stated that on December 4, 2022, their information security team…
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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…