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"Data of 750 Million Indian Mobile Subscribers Sold on Hacker Forums"CloudSEK reports that a massive database containing the information of roughly 750 million individuals in India was offered for sale on the dark web earlier this month.
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"1.5 Million Affected by Data Breach at Insurance Broker Keenan & Associates"Insurance consulting and brokerage firm Keenan & Associates has recently started informing more than 1.5 million individuals that their personal information was stolen in an August 2023 cyberattack.
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"Student Team Works With Lockheed Martin to Enhance Cellular Security Networks"With support from Lockheed Martin, a team of student researchers at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University's Prescott Campus are developing a Cellular Intrusion Detection (CID) system aimed at detecting unwanted cellular devices in secure areas.
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"Study: Smart Devices' Ambient Light Sensors Pose Imaging Privacy Risk"According to researchers from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), ambient light sensors are vulnerable to privacy threats when embedded in a smart device's screen
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"Proposed Law Aims to Boost Food and Agriculture Industry's Cyber Posture"The Farm and Food Cybersecurity Act would require the agriculture secretary to conduct a survey every two years on the state of cyber vulnerabilities and threats to the food and agriculture sectors, as well as collaborate with major intelligence commun
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"New Protocol Kills Dead Air for Quantum Communication - The Technique Can Boost Transmission Rates and Improve Security"Quantum communication transmission rates have been limited by the "dead time" of single-photon detectors. Researchers at LG Electronics in South Korea recently revealed a new protocol to improve transmission rates while also increasing security.
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"DHS Employees Jailed For Stealing Data of 200K U.S. Govt Workers"Three former Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employees have recently been sentenced to prison for stealing proprietary U.S. government software and databases containing the personal data of 200,000 federal employees.
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"Energy Giant Schneider Electric Hit by Cactus Ransomware Attack"Schneider Electric, the energy management and automation giant, has been targeted in a Cactus ransomware attack, resulting in data theft. Researchers discovered that the ransomware attack targeted the company's Sustainability Business division.
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"Albabat, Kasseika, Kuiper: New Ransomware Gangs Rise with Rust and Golang"Researchers have discovered Faust, a new variant of the Phobos ransomware family, in the wild.
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"Global Critical Infrastructure Faces Relentless Cyber Activity"According to Forescout, Operational Technology (OT) is under constant attack, with key protocols facing many persistent attacks.
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"Pegasus Spyware Targets Togolese Journalists' Mobile Devices"Threat actors installed the Pegasus spyware on phones belonging to several journalists in Togo. Pegasus spyware, developed by the Israeli company NSO Group, enables the controller to access and extract information from an exploited mobile device.
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"Kansas City Public Transportation Authority Hit by Ransomware"The Kansas City Area Transportation Authority (KCATA) recently announced it was targeted by a ransomware attack on Tuesday, January 23.