America's second largest insurance company Prudential Financial has disclosed a security breach by a cybercrime gang that leaked administrative, employee, and contractors’ data.
The Intel Alder Lake data leak first appeared as a 2.8 GB zip (expanding to 5.86 GB) posted by an unknown party to 4Chan. Intel has since confirmed that it is a genuine source code leak.
The prospects for a federal privacy bill actually being signed into law in the United States in 2019 just took another big step forward with a proposal from Intel.
An Android app leak indicates that plans for ChatGPT ads are at least in the works. The 1.2025.329 beta version's code lists references to over a dozen APIs that appear to explicitly be about serving ads.
Report estimates that the cybersecurity workforce is still facing a shortfall in spite of a general improvement in 2020. Global growth would need to be at 89% to make up for it.
A Europol-headed law enforcement operation has put a serious dent in the dropper malware ecosystem, disrupting the botnets that these dropper systems rely on to function, with over 100 servers and 2,000 domains impacted across about a dozen countries.
International law enforcement has taken down illicit proxy service RSOCKS, a Russian botnet that has been active since at least 2014 and compromised millions of devices.
International law enforcement operation appears to have significantly disrupted the capabilities of the LockBit ransomware group, one of the biggest internet-based criminal hacking organizations in the world, seizing about 200 of the group's crypto wallets and over 1,000 decryption keys.
The Internet Archive has been under heavy attack in the past week, suffering both a major data breach and a series of potent DDoS attacks that have taken it offline.
This vision of the future of the internet is manifesting in democratic nations as well in the form of laws that hold intermediaries liable for the packets they transfer among other measures.
