The Justice Department has seized two domain names and 968 user accounts linked to a bot farm operation, which it says was managed by RT employees with assistance from Russian intelligence service FSB, aimed at spreading disinformation.
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Scott Ikeda is a technology futurist and writer for more than 15 years. He travels extensively throughout Asia and writes about the impact of technology on the communities he visits. Over the last 5 years, Scott has grown increasingly focused on the future landscape of big data, surveillance, cybersecurity and the right to privacy.
Ticketmaster hack has had at least 39,000 print-at-home tickets for upcoming shows leaked to the dark web by ransom-seeking hackers who say they have more in hand.
The data breach first emerged in late June when the hacking group ShinyHunters posted a dump of 33 million phone numbers to BreachForums, now confirmed to be taken from an Authy API endpoint.
Skeleton key attacks craft the right statement to convince AI models to shed their guardrails entirely. Once a functional statement has been developed, it is essentially a "plug and play" method to jailbreak a variety of models.
A new OpenSSH vulnerability discovered by threat researchers is the biggest security issue to appear in the utility suite in about two decades. The bug is an unauthenticated RCE vulnerability that builds on a prior issue that was patched out in 2006.
A statement of claim attached to mandatory court filings reveals that the ACMA will frame the Optus data breach as a case of negligence, asserting that the company failed to address an access control coding error that it had known about for some years.
A statement from TeamViewer indicated that the security breach was detected on June 26, and an employee account was apparently compromised as the APT group's source of access. There is not yet any mention of loss of data.
The ransomware group LockBit put itself in the international headlines once again last week when it boldly claimed to have stolen 33 TB of data from the US Federal Reserve. But the sample of stolen data turns out to have come from just one US bank.
TikTok continues to remain entangled in children's privacy issues, as an ongoing investigation by the FTC has now been referred to the DOJ for potential violation of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).
A Microsoft whistleblower says that the Active Directory security flaw that led to the SolarWinds breach was ignored because, at the time, the company was preparing a major bid for the government's cloud computing business.
