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Square says daylong outage caused by DNS error

Square said there was “no evidence” a cyberattack caused an outage that left customers and small businesses ...
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Microsoft reveals how hackers stole its email signing key… kind of

A series of unfortunate and cascading mistakes allowed a China-backed hacking group to steal one of the keys to Microsof...
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Ransomware gang claims credit for Sabre data breach

Travel booking giant Sabre said it was investigating claims of a cyberattack after a tranche of files purportedly stolen...
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Forever 21 data breach affects half a million people

Clothing giant Forever 21 said a data breach earlier in the year affects more than half a million individuals. A data br...
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A Brazilian phone spyware was hacked and victims’ devices ‘deleted’ from server

A Portuguese-language spyware called WebDetetive has been used to compromise more than 76,000 Android phones in recent y...
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Danish cloud host says customers ‘lost all data’ after ransomware attack

Cloud host CloudNordic says most of its customers have “lost all data with us” following a ransomware attack...
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Learning the lessons from cybersecurity trash fires at TC Disrupt 2023

We’ve all seen headlines about major hacks and data breaches of major companies — it can feel like nobody’s ...
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US lawmaker says FBI notified him of email breach linked to Microsoft cloud hack

U.S. House lawmaker Rep. Don Bacon said the FBI warned him that China-backed hackers who used a stolen Microsoft key to ...
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SecureWorks layoffs affect 15% staff

SecureWorks said Monday it will let go of 15% of its workforce, the cybersecurity company’s second round of layoff...
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US cyber board to investigate Microsoft hack of government emails

A U.S. review board tasked with investigating major cybersecurity incidents said it will begin looking at the recent int...
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Parsing the UK voter register cyberattack

A catastrophic breach of the United Kingdom electoral register affects tens of millions of residents following a cyberat...
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Spyware maker LetMeSpy shuts down after hacker deletes server data

Poland-based spyware LetMeSpy is no longer operational and said it will shut down after a June data breach wiped out its...
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Israel cybersecurity agency says no breach after senior official self-infects home PC with malware

Israel’s National Cybersecurity Directorate said there was “no breach” of its network after passwords ...
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Mondee security lapse exposed flight itineraries and unencrypted credit card numbers

Travel giant Mondee has secured an exposed database that was spilling sensitive customer information, including detailed...
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US, Australia cyber agencies warn IDOR security flaws can be exploited ‘at scale’

U.S. and Australian government cybersecurity agencies are warning that common and easily exploitable security vulnerabil...
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Spyhide stalkerware is spying on tens of thousands of phones

A phone surveillance app called Spyhide is stealthily collecting private phone data from tens of thousands of Android de...
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North Korean hackers targeting JumpCloud mistakenly exposed their IP addresses, researchers say

Security researchers say they have high confidence that North Korean hackers were behind a recent intrusion at enterpris...
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Fake passports, real bank accounts: How TheTruthSpy stalkerware made its millions

Benjamin, 44, has a place by the park in an up-and-coming area of downtown Dallas, Texas. He seems to keep to himself an...
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Microsoft lost its keys, and the government got hacked

Microsoft still doesn’t know — or want to share — how China-backed hackers stole a key that allowed them to stealt...
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Amit Serper locks up IoT security flaws at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023

What do doorbells, smart plugs and pet feeders have in common? They’re just some of the billions of Internet of Things (...
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HCA Healthcare reports breach of 11 million patients’ personal data

U.S. healthcare giant HCA Healthcare says about 11 million patients’ data may have had their data stolen after a p...
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JumpCloud resets customer API keys citing ‘ongoing incident’

JumpCloud has told customers it reset their API keys to protect their organizations from an apparent security incident. ...
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US Patent and Trademark Office notifies filers of years-long data leak

The federal government agency responsible for granting patents and trademarks has confirmed it inadvertently exposed abo...
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LetMeSpy, a phone tracking app spying on thousands, says it was hacked

A hacker has stolen the messages, call logs and locations intercepted by a widely used phone monitoring app called LetMe...
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Hacker responsible for 2020 Twitter breach sentenced to prison

Three years after one of the most visible hacks in recent history played out in real-time in front of millions of Twitte...
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TechCrunch Disrupt’s Security Stage highlights the risks of spyware, government surveillance

Governments all over the world, authoritarian and democratic, use spyware to hack the phones of activists, journalists, ...
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A simple bug exposed access to thousands of smart security alarm systems

U.S. power and electronics giant Eaton has fixed a security vulnerability that allowed a security researcher to remotely...
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Mandiant says China-backed hackers exploited Barracuda zero-day to spy on governments

Security researchers at Mandiant say China-backed hackers are likely behind the mass-exploitation of a recently discover...
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Announcing the Security Stage agenda at TechCrunch Disrupt

A few weeks ago we introduced you to the brand new Security Stage, our debut space dedicated to cybersecurity at TechCru...
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US intelligence confirms it buys Americans’ personal data

A newly declassified government report confirms for the first time that U.S. intelligence and spy agencies purchase vast...
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