Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks
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How Hackers Extracted the ‘Keys to the Kingdom’ to Clone HID Keycards
HID Global’s keycards—the company’s radio-frequency-enabled plastic rectangles that are inside hundreds of millions of pockets and purses—serve as the front…
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Computer Crash Reports Are an Untapped Hacker Gold Mine
When a bad software update from the security firm CrowdStrike inadvertently caused digital chaos around the world last month, the…
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Tricky Web Timing Attacks Are Getting Easier to Use—and Abuse
Researchers have long known that they can glean hidden information about the inner workings of a website by measuring the…
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Microsoft’s AI Can Be Turned Into an Automated Phishing Machine
Microsoft raced to put generative AI at the heart of its systems. Ask a question about an upcoming meeting and…
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USPS Text Scammers Duped His Wife, So He Hacked Their Operation
Smith trawled Reddit and other online sources to find people reporting the scam and the URLs being used, which he…
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A Flaw in Windows Update Opens the Door to Zombie Exploits
New research being presented at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas today shows that a vulnerability in Windows…
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A New Plan to Break the Cycle of Destructive Critical Infrastructure Hacks
An endless parade of data breaches, brutally disruptive ransomware attacks, and crippling IT outages has somehow become the norm around…
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How Project 2025 Would Put US Elections at Risk
If anything, the military has impinged on CISA’s territory—not the other way around—out of exasperation with the civilian agency’s constrained…
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US Hands Over Russian Cybercriminals in WSJ Reporter Prisoner Swap
If it seems like there’s suddenly a whole lot more data breaches, you may be right. Part of this apparent…
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How Infostealers Pillaged the World’s Passwords
For the past two months, cybercriminals have advertised for sale hundreds of millions of customer records from major companies like…
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