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  • "FuboTV Hit With Cyberattack During World Cup Semifinal Match"
    FuboTV, a live-TV bundle streaming service, recently said it was the target of a criminal cyberattack affecting customers trying to access their subscriptions during the World Cup semifinal match between France and Morocco.  Once the attack was…
  • "89% Of Organizations Have Been Hit by an Identity-Based Attack in the Past Year"
    In 2022, identity-based attacks struck every industry and the top companies, and these attacks are not expected to slow down. A recent analysis from One Identity, based on a survey of more than 1,000 Information Technology (IT) security professionals,…
  • "Research Finds TikTok Shows New Users Harmful Content Quickly"
    Researchers at the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) have discovered that the popular social media app TikTok feeds harmful content to a primarily teenage audience within the first half hour of using it. The CCDH conducted the study, setting up…
  • "Georgia, NH Latest States to Ban TikTok From State Computers"
    On Thursday, Governors Brian Kemp of Georgia and Chris Sununu of New Hampshire immediately banned the use of TikTok and popular messaging applications from all computer devices controlled by their state governments.  The governors noted that the…
  • "HKU Mechanical Engineering Team Develops New Microscale 3D Printer for Multi-Level Anti-counterfeiting Labels"
    Counterfeiting endangers the world's economy and security. The value of global counterfeit and pirated products is estimated to be between $1.7 and $4.5 trillion per year, according to a report issued by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in 2020…
  • "CMS Subcontractor Breach Potentially Exposes Sensitive Data of 254,000 Customers"
    According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), personal data, including bank routing and account information for 254,000 people, may have been compromised during a ransomware attack on an agency subcontractor. CMS stated that the…
  • "Microsoft Reclassifies Windows Flaw After IBM Researcher Proves Remote Code Execution"
    Microsoft has recently reclassified a Windows vulnerability after an IBM security researcher demonstrated that it can be exploited for remote code execution.  In September, Microsoft announced that Windows and Windows Server updates patched CVE-2022…
  • "OECD Signs Landmark Privacy Agreement"
    The OECD recently published a new transnational agreement that it claims will help to safeguard user privacy when data is accessed for national security and law enforcement purposes. The "OECD Declaration on Government Access to Personal Data Held by…
  • "IMDEA Software Creates a Tool Capable of Tracking Cybercrime Financial Transactions in Bitcoin"
    Researchers at IMDEA Software, Gibran Gómez, Pedro Moreno-Sánchez, and Juan Caballero, have developed an open-source automated tool to track the financial links of malicious entities abusing Bitcoin technology, which has been tested on 30 malware…
  • "Two-Thirds of Security Pros Have Burnt Out in Past Year"
    Security researchers at Promon have discovered that two-thirds of cybersecurity professionals have suffered burnout over the past year due to work-related stress.  The researchers polled over 300 information security pros at this year’s Black Hat…
  • "Hackers Leak Personal Info Allegedly Stolen From 5.7M Gemini Users"
    Customers of the Gemini cryptocurrency exchange have been targeted in phishing operations after a threat actor obtained their personal information from a third-party vendor. The news comes after various posts on hacker sites attempted to sell a database…
  • "GitHub Brings Free Secret Scanning to All Public Repos"
    Developers know that hardcoding security credentials into source code is a poor idea, but it still happens, and the repercussions can be disastrous. Previously, GitHub only made its secret scanning service available to paying enterprise users who…