Zack Whittaker

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The life-upending flaw that USPS won’t fix

Sometime in November, someone walked into a U.S. post office and filled out a change of address form, just as tens of mi...
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Sensitive US military emails spill online

The U.S. Department of Defense secured an exposed server on Monday that was spilling internal U.S. military emails to th...
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How to keep your Twitter secure without giving Elon Musk any money

Late on Friday, Twitter announced a new policy that will remove text message two-factor authentication (2FA) from any ac...
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Weee! grocery startup says customer data stolen in data breach

Weee!, a U.S. online grocery delivery startup that specializes in Asian and Hispanic foods, says it was hacked and that ...
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Taiwan fines car renting giant iRent for customer data spill

Taiwanese authorities have fined car rental and ride sharing giant iRent after TechCrunch revealed the company was spill...
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New York attorney general orders stalkerware maker to notify hacked victims

A New York-based spyware maker has agreed to notify the individuals whose phones were compromised by its mobile surveill...
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FTC slaps $1.5M fine on GoodRx for sharing users’ health data with Facebook and Google

Online pharmacy GoodRx has agreed to pay $1.5 million in civil penalties for years of sharing the health information of ...
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Hotai Motor exposed thousands of iRent customer documents

Taiwanese automotive conglomerate Hotai Motor exposed reams of personal customer data from its car rental and carshare u...
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How US police use digital data to prosecute abortions

In late April, police in Nebraska received a tip saying 17-year-old Celeste Burgess had given birth to a stillborn baby ...
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A network of knockoff apparel stores exposed 330,000 customer credit cards

If you recently made a purchase from an overseas online store selling knockoff clothes and goods, there’s a chance...
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A hack at ODIN Intelligence exposes a huge trove of police raid files

Detailed tactical plans for imminent police raids, confidential police reports with descriptions of alleged crimes and s...
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Mailchimp says it was hacked — again

Email marketing and newsletter giant Mailchimp says it was hacked and that dozens of customers’ data was exposed. ...
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ODIN Intelligence website is defaced as hackers claim breach

The website for ODIN Intelligence, a company that provides technology and tools for law enforcement and police departmen...
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Norton LifeLock says thousands of customer accounts breached

Thousands of Norton LifeLock customers had their accounts compromised in recent weeks, potentially allowing criminal hac...
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CircleCI says hackers stole encryption keys and customers’ source code

CircleCi, a software company whose products are popular with developers and software engineers, confirmed that some cust...
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A government watchdog spent $15,000 to crack a federal agency’s passwords in minutes

A government watchdog has published a scathing rebuke of the Department of the Interior’s cybersecurity posture, f...
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Meet the cybercriminals of 2022

Arrested, seized, doxed and detained. These are just some of the ways police and prosecutors around the world took down ...
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LastPass says hackers stole customers’ password vaults

Password manager giant LastPass has confirmed that cybercriminals stole its customers’ encrypted password vaults, ...
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Even the FBI says you should use an ad blocker

This holiday season, consider giving the gift of security with an ad blocker. That’s the takeaway message from an ...
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Support King, banned by FTC, linked to new stalkerware operation

A year after it was banned by the Federal Trade Commission, a notorious phone surveillance company is back in all but na...
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Parsing LastPass’ data breach notice

Two weeks ago, the password manager giant LastPass disclosed its systems were compromised for a second time this year. B...
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Apple fixes ‘actively exploited’ zero-day affecting most iPhones

Apple has confirmed that an iPhone software update it released two weeks ago fixed a zero-day security vulnerability tha...
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Xnspy stalkerware spied on thousands of iPhones and Android devices

A little-known phone monitoring app called Xnspy has stolen data from tens of thousands of iPhones and Android devices, ...
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Florida state tax website bug exposed filers’ data

A security flaw on the Florida Department of Revenue website exposed at least hundreds of taxpayers’ Social Securi...
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LastPass says it was breached — again

Password manager LassPass said its systems were compromised for the second time this year. LastPass chief executive Kari...
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Hackers are locking out Mars Stealer operators from their own servers

A security research and hacking startup says it has found a coding flaw that allows it to lock out operators of the Mars...
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Booz Allen says former staffer downloaded employees’ personal data

U.S. government contractor Booz Allen Hamilton has disclosed that a former staffer downloaded potentially tens of thousa...
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A simple Android lock screen bypass bug landed a researcher $70,000

Google has paid out $70,000 to a security researcher for privately reporting an “accidental” security bug th...
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Google says surveillance vendor targeted Samsung phones with zero-days

Google says it has evidence that a commercial surveillance vendor was exploiting three zero-day security vulnerabilities...
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Twitter chief information security officer Lea Kissner departs

Twitter’s most senior cybersecurity staffer Lea Kissner has departed the social media giant. Kissner announced the...
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