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Aiphone door entry systems can be ‘easily’ bypassed thanks to NFC bug

A security research firm says it discovered an “easily” exploitable vulnerability in a door entry security s...
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AstraZeneca password lapse exposed patient data

Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has blamed “user error” for leaving a list of credentials online for more t...
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Amazon accidentally exposed an internal server packed with Prime Video viewing habits

It feels like every other day another tech startup is caught red-faced spilling reams of data across the internet becaus...
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New York Post says its site was hacked after posting offensive tweets

The New York Post, one of the biggest New York City daily newspapers, said it was hacked on Thursday after several offen...
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Inside TheTruthSpy, the stalkerware network spying on thousands

A massive cache of leaked data reveals the inner workings of a stalkerware operation that is spying on hundreds of thous...
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ACLU’s Jennifer Stisa Granick and Google’s Maddie Stone talk security and surveillance at Disrupt

In a world filled with bad actors and snooping governments, surveillance is the one factor that affects almost every bus...
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Ro says it ‘inadvertently’ exposed employees’ personal information

Healthcare unicorn Ro is notifying employees of a data exposure involving their personal information after a security co...
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House Democrats debut new facial recognition bill

A group of House Democrats has unveiled a new bill that aims to put limits on the use of facial recognition technologies...
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Optus, Australia’s second largest telco, says customer data exposed in data breach

Australia telecoms giant Optus said current and former customer data was accessed following a cyberattack on its systems...
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How do you fix a hack like Uber’s?

Ride hailing giant Uber says its services are operational following a “cybersecurity incident” last week tha...
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iOS 16 lands today with these five new security and privacy features

Apple’s long-awaited iOS 16 update for iPhones lands Monday with new security and privacy features, aimed at preve...
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Patreon confirms security team layoffs

Patreon has confirmed it has laid off five employees from its security team. Emily Metcalfe, a former senior security en...
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Parsing Samsung’s data breach notice

Hours before a long holiday weekend in the United States, electronics giant Samsung announced its U.S. systems were brea...
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A huge Chinese database of faces and vehicle license plates spilled online

A massive Chinese database storing millions of faces and vehicle license plates was left exposed on the internet for mon...
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Apple releases iOS, iPadOS, and macOS security fixes for two zero-days under active attack

Apple released surprise software updates for iPhones, iPads and Macs on Wednesday that fix two security vulnerabilities ...
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Hands-on with Lockdown Mode in iOS 16

Lockdown Mode is a new Apple feature you should hope you’ll never need to use. But for those who do, like journali...
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Twitter fixes security bug that exposed at least 5.4 million accounts

Twitter says it has fixed a security vulnerability that allowed threat actors to compile information of 5.4 million Twit...
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Hackers stole passwords for accessing 140,000 payment terminals

Hackers had access to dashboards used to remotely manage and control thousands of credit card payment terminals manufact...
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Protestware on the rise: Why developers are sabotaging their own code

Ax Sharma Contributor Share on Twitter Ax Sharma is a sec...
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JusTalk spilled millions of user messages and locations for months

Popular messaging app JusTalk left a huge database of unencrypted private messages publicly exposed to the internet with...
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Messaging app JusTalk is spilling millions of unencrypted messages

Popular video calling and messaging app JusTalk claims to be both secure and encrypted. But a security lapse has proven ...
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Security flaws in a popular GPS tracker are exposing a million vehicle locations

Security vulnerabilities in a popular Chinese-built GPS vehicle tracker can be easily exploited to track and remotely cu...
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Runa Sandvik’s new startup Granitt secures at-risk people from hackers and nation states

For much of her career, hacker Runa Sandvik has worked to protect journalists and newsrooms from powerful adversaries...
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A ransomware attack on a debt collection firm could be one of 2022’s biggest health data breaches

A ransomware attack on a little-known debt collection firm that serves hundreds of hospitals and medical facilities acro...
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A huge data leak exposes China’s vast surveillance state

A massive store of data containing information on about one billion Chinese residents could be one of the biggest breach...
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Apple announces Lockdown Mode to counter government spyware attacks

Apple said Wednesday it will bring a new “Lockdown Mode” to its upcoming iPhone and Mac software that will s...
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WeWork India exposed visitors’ personal information and selfies

WeWork India has fixed a security lapse that exposed the personal information and selfies of tens of thousands of people...
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How did a rental startup I’d never heard of leak my home address?

I consider myself a fairly privacy-conscious person, going out of my way to evade online tracking and, for the most part...
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Google is notifying Android users targeted by Hermit government-grade spyware

Security researchers at Lookout recently tied a previously unattributed Android mobile spyware, dubbed Hermit, to Italia...
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Ex-Amazon employee convicted over data breach of 100 million CapitalOne customers

Paige Thompson, a former Amazon employee accused of stealing the personal information of 100 million customers by breach...
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