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"Study Reveals iOS Privacy Labels Miss the Mark"Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) have been working for more than a decade to pioneer privacy nutrition labels, advocating for a quick and easy way to inform technology users about how their data is collected and used. Companies such as…
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"Quantum Cryptography: Hacking Futile"An international team has successfully implemented an advanced form of quantum cryptography. Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) is secure against attacks on the communication channel but not against attacks or manipulations of the devices themselves. As a…
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"CAREER Award Supports Cyber-Physical Systems Research"The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award to a University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas) professor in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science to support security…
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"A Key Role for Quantum Entanglement"Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) promises communication security that conventional cryptography cannot provide. An international team of scientists, including ETH physicists, has now experimentally demonstrated for the first time a method of QKD that uses…
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"Cybercriminal Offers 5.4m Twitter Users’ Data"A database containing 5.4m Twitter users' data is reportedly for sale on a popular criminal forum. The seller is using the nickname "devil." The seller advertised the stolen data on the Breached Forums site and demanded at least $30,000 for…
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"Criminals Use Malware as Messaging Bots to Steal Data"Security researchers at Intel 471 have found that criminals are using malicious bots to steal information from victims via the popular Telegram and Discord messaging services. The researchers noted that some bots can be rented for as little as $25…
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"FIN7 Threat Actors Add Ransomware to Their Arsenal"FIN7, one of the world's most prolific cybercriminal gangs, has added ransomware to its arsenal. In 2014, the organization gained notoriety after stealing $1 billion from more than 100 companies globally. FIN7 is one of the most skilled Advanced…
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"European Lawmaker Targeted With Cytrox Predator Surveillance Spyware"A security audit by the European Parliament has unearthed attempts to plant high-end surveillance software on the phone of a Greek lawmaker, and new reports are linking the hack attempt to a known North Macedonia spyware vendor. The company, called…
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"Wawa Agrees to Payment, Security Changes for '19 Data Breach"Authorities announced Tuesday that a Pennsylvania-based convenience store chain will pay $8 million to several states over a 2019 data breach involving some 34 million payment cards. The Pennsylvania attorney general’s office stated that Wawa Inc.…
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"US Doubles Reward for Info on North Korean Hackers"The US government has increased its reward for information on North Korean state-linked hackers to $10m. The State Department's Rewards for Justice initially offered $5M for information. In a notice, the State Department stated, "if you have…
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"Data Breach Costs Reach New Record High"Security researchers at IBM have found that the average cost of a data breach globally now stands at $4.35m, up nearly 13% on 2020 figures and a new all-time record. During the study, the researchers interviewed 550 organizations in 17 countries…
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"Hackers Scan for Vulnerabilities within 15 Minutes of Disclosure"Palo Alto's 2022 Unit 42 Incident Response Report shows that threat actors scan for vulnerable endpoints within 15 minutes of a new CVE being publicly disclosed, giving system administrators even less time to patch disclosed security vulnerabilities than…