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NSA publishes a report of the top 25 vulnerabilities with patches available that are currently being found and exploited by "Chinese state-sponsored hackers"
Google releases Chrome update to deploy security fixes, including a patch for an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability
Google removes two Chrome ad blockers caught collecting user data
IBM reports Q3 revenue of $17.6B, down 2.6% YoY, vs $17.54B est, total cloud revenue of $6.0B, up 19% YoY, with Red Hat revenue rising 17% YoY
Juniper announces intent to acquire 128 Technology for $450M, to boost AI-based features across Juniper's networking products
DOJ charges six Russian GRU officers linked to Sandworm APT for allegedly being behind NotPetya, BlackEnergy blackouts in Ukraine, French election cyberattacks
Three npm packages found opening shells on Linux, Windows systems
Google says it mitigated a 2.54 Tbps DDoS attack in 2017, largest known to date
Billionaire CEO of software company indicted for alleged $2 billion tax evasion schemes | ZDNet
Report: payment card details of 3M+ Dickey's Barbecue Pit customers, stolen in a POS breach between July 2019 and Aug. 2020, were posted on a fraud marketplace
Barnes & Noble confirms cyberattack, suspected customer data breach – The bookseller’s security incident also impacted Nook services.
Microsoft, Symantec, ESET, and other tech companies orchestrated an attempt to takedown the TrickBot malware botnet, which had infected 1M+ computers
Android ransomware warning
Five Eyes governments, India, and Japan make new call for encryption backdoors
New self-erasing chip could be used to detect counterfeit or tampered products
Facebook launches a bug bounty "loyalty program" called Hacker Plus, which will give bug hunters extra bonuses and special perks based on past performance
Researchers identified a fraudulent ad business that used 240+ Play Store apps with 14M+ downloads, mostly low quality games, to display out of context ads
US government seizes Iranian government domains that "unlawfully engage in a global disinformation campaign"
Okta announces new SDK and API to let developers build biometric and push notification sign-ins for mobile, coming in Q1 2021
Supreme Court takes on Google vs. Oracle: The biggest software development case ever
Five bar and cafe owners arrested in France for running no-log WiFi networks
Researcher says that Macs with T2 chips are vulnerable to a variant of the checkm8 exploit, which could jailbreak certain iPhones and was unpatchable
Nvidia unveils the Jetson Nano 2GB, a $59 developer kit powered by CUDA-X, for students and hobbyists with an interest in robotics and AI
Google is creating a special Android security team to find bugs in sensitive apps
ESET details XDSpy, a hacking group which had been undetected for nine years with operations targeting government agencies in countries like Belarus and Russia
Facebook sues two Chrome extension makers for scraping user data
Facebook sues two Chrome extension makers for scraping user data
Facebook details a months-long attack from a sophisticated malware gang, SilentFade, using a combination of hacks to defraud users of $4M for malicious ad buys
Microsoft is investigating a web Outlook and Exchange Online outage that has affected users globally
Twitter removes 130 Iranian accounts for trying to disrupt the US Presidential Debate
North Korea has tried to hack 11 officials of the UN Security Council
Windows XP leak confirmed after user compiles the leaked code into a working OS
Windows XP leak confirmed after user compiles the leaked code into a working OS
Starlink internet satellites keep emergency workers online amid wildfires
Twitter hires Rinki Sethi as its new CISO following its July 15 hack; Sethi previously worked at cloud data management company Rubrik
Former Amazon finance manager and family charged with $1.4m insider trading scheme
Reddit · 3 weeks ago
All four of the world’s largest shipping companies have now been hit by cyber-attacks
Microsoft is investigating an authentication error impacting multiple Microsoft 365 services, including Office, Teams, Power Platform, and Dynamic365
Linux graphical apps coming to Windows SubSystem for Linux
Google removes 17 Android apps caught engaging in WAP billing fraud
Pastebin adds two new features, Burn After Read and Password Protected Pastes, that experts say will make it easier to disguise malware operations
Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin discloses hack that emptied its hot wallets, with the minimum loss currently estimated at $150M
Always Home Cam: Amazon’s robot drone flying inside our homes seems like a bad idea
Reddit · 4 weeks ago