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2019-12-20 11:41:00 UTC
Naked Security | Sophos
Naked Security | Sophos
Twitter trolls attack epileptics with seizure-inducing images

They hijacked the Epilepsy Foundation's hashtags and name during national epilepsy awareness month, when the most people follow the feed.

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2019-12-20 11:37:00 UTC
Naked Security | Sophos
Naked Security | Sophos
Facebook’s location tracking policy still worries US Senators

Does Facebook continue to track the locations of its users even when they’ve told it not to? Yes!

Facebook Google Privacy Social Networks GPS Location Data Location Tracking Mark Zuckerberg
2019-12-20 10:52:00 UTC
Naked Security | Sophos
Naked Security | Sophos
What’s behind Putin’s old-school operating system?

Reports surfaced this week that the president of Russia is still using Windows XP as his primary operating system.

Microsoft Operating Systems Windows Putin Russia Windows XP XP
2019-12-20 10:34:00 UTC
Naked Security | Sophos
Naked Security | Sophos
Hello ‘123456,’ my old friend, I’ve come to talk with you again

Once again, it reins supreme as the #1 smelliest old fish of a password on the list of ones that most frequently turn up in data breaches.

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2019-12-20 10:31:00 UTC
The Daily Swig
The Daily Swig
Top 10 Best Hacking Films of All Time

Haxploitation goes to the movies

2019-12-19 23:38:00 UTC
HackRead
HackRead
Names & Phone numbers of 267 million Facebook users exposed

By Waqas

Another day, another data breach putting the privacy of hundreds of millions of Facebook users at risk.

This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Names & Phone numbers of 267 million Facebook users exposed

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2019-12-19 21:47:00 UTC
ThreatPost
ThreatPost
267M Facebook Users’ Phone Numbers Exposed Online

Researchers believe that criminals were able to obtain personal information for millions of Facebook users.

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2019-12-19 20:30:00 UTC
Dark Reading
Dark Reading
China-Based Cyber Espionage Group Targeting Orgs in 10 Countries

Dozens of organizations across multiple sectors have become victims of APT20 in the past two years.

2019-12-19 19:00:00 UTC
Dark Reading
Dark Reading
Patch Management: How to Prioritize an Underserved Vulnerability

Why is one of the biggest problems in cybersecurity also one that CISOs largely ignore? Here are three reasons and a road map to a modern approach.

2019-12-19 17:11:00 UTC
HackRead
HackRead
Google & Mozilla ban Avast security extensions over data snooping

By Sudais

In this specific case, it was Avast & AVG Security whose two browser extensions each have been found spying on users...

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June 2024
By SUE DENIM
Dark-Web Forum Collapse, Lockbit’s Misdirection, and Europol’s Botnet Crackdown.
In the ever-dramatic world of cybercrime, a small dark-web forum has found itself in a downward spiral, now up for sale. As covered in our weekly insight, the forum was breached by an unknown threat actor, prompting the admin to panic and shut it down. This came just days after the admin had taken to Telegram to badmouth the threat actor community and insult Shiny Hunters, the admin of Breach Foru...

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22 July 2024
BREACHAWARE HQ

A total of 9 breaches were found and analysed resulting in 2,948,750 leaked accounts containing a total of 14 different data types. The breaches found publicly and freely available included Avito, Lulu Hypermarket, The Cellula, Boutique Curly and NATO Wiki