Security / Security News
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The Feds Say These Are the Russian Hackers Who Attacked US Water Utilities
The week was particularly chock-full of dramatic security news. On Friday, a flawed update to CrowdStrike’s Falcon platform caused massive…
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Don’t Fall for CrowdStrike Outage Scams
The security firm CrowdStrike inadvertently caused mayhem around the world on Friday after deploying a faulty software update to the…
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How One Bad CrowdStrike Update Crashed the World’s Computers
Only a handful of times in history has a single piece of code managed to instantly wreck computer systems worldwide:…
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J.D. Vance Left His Venmo Public. Here’s What It Shows
US senator J.D. Vance, an Ohio Republican and former US president Donald Trump’s pick for vice president, has a public…
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Alleged ‘Maniac Murder Cult’ Leader Indicted Over Plot to Kill Jews
Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn on Tuesday unsealed a sweeping felony indictment against the 20-year-old they say is the head of…
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Hackers Claim to Have Leaked 1.1 TB of Disney Slack Messages
A group calling itself “NullBulge” published a 1.1-TB trove of data late last week that it claims is a dump…
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US Senators Secretly Work to Block Safeguards Against Surveillance Abuse
Members of the United States Senate have been working for more than a month to shore up safeguards against further…
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AT&T Paid a Hacker $370,000 to Delete Stolen Phone Records
US telecom giant AT&T, which disclosed Friday that hackers had stolen the call records for tens of millions of its…
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Spyware Users Exposed in Major Data Breach
But that’s not all. Each week, we round up the security news we didn’t cover in depth ourselves. Click on…
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The Sweeping Danger of the AT&T Phone Records Breach
From targeted wiretaps to bulk surveillance dragnets, phone companies have been at the center of privacy concerns for decades—and their…
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