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Year: 2024

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  • September 30, 2024

AI and the 2024 US Elections

For years now, AI has undermined the public’s ability to trust what it sees, hears, and reads. The Republican National Committee released a provocative ad offering an “AI-generated look into the country’s possible future if Joe Biden is re-elected,” showing apocalyptic, machine-made images of ruined cityscapes and chaos at the border. Fake robocalls purporting to […]

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  • September 30, 2024

A Hacker’s Era: Why Microsoft 365 Protection Reigns Supreme

Imagine a sophisticated cyberattack cripples your organization’s most critical productivity and collaboration tool — the platform you rely on for daily operations. In the blink of an eye, hackers encrypt your emails, files, and crucial business data stored in Microsoft 365, holding it hostage using ransomware. Productivity grinds to a halt and your IT team […]

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  • September 30, 2024

Meta Fined €91 Million for Storing Millions of Facebook and Instagram Passwords in Plaintext

The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined Meta €91 million ($101.56 million) as part of a probe into a security lapse in March 2019, when the company disclosed that it had mistakenly stored users’ passwords in plaintext in its systems. The investigation, launched by the DPC the next month, found that the social media […]

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  • September 28, 2024

Crypto Scam App Disguised as WalletConnect Steals $70K in Five-Month Campaign

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious Android app on the Google Play Store that enabled the threat actors behind it to steal approximately $70,000 in cryptocurrency from victims over a period of nearly five months. The dodgy app, identified by Check Point, masqueraded as the legitimate WalletConnect open-source protocol to trick unsuspecting users into downloading […]

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  • September 28, 2024

U.S. Charges Three Iranian Nationals for Election Interference and Cybercrimes

U.S. federal prosecutors on Friday unsealed criminal charges against three Iranian nationals who are allegedly employed with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) for their targeting of current and former officials to steal sensitive data. The Department of Justice (DoJ) accused Masoud Jalili, 36, Seyyed Ali Aghamiri, 34, and Yasar (Yaser) Balaghi, 37, of participating […]

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  • September 27, 2024

Squid Fishing in Japan

Fishermen are catching more squid as other fish are depleted. Blog moderation policy.  

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  • September 27, 2024

Deepfake Ukrainian diplomat targeted US senator on Zoom call

Graham CLULEY September 27, 2024 Promo Protect all your devices, without slowing them down. Free 30-day trial The chair of the United States Foreign Relations Committee was targeted by a sophisticated deepfake operation which impersonated a top Ukrainian official in what was an apparent attempt at election interference. The office of Ben Cardin, the Democratic […]

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  • September 27, 2024

Progress Software Releases Patches for 6 Flaws in WhatsUp Gold – Patch Now

Progress Software has released another round of updates to address six security flaws in WhatsUp Gold, including two critical vulnerabilities. The issues, the company said, have been resolved in version 24.0.1 released on September 20, 2024. The company has yet to release any details about what the flaws are other than listing their CVE identifiers […]

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  • September 27, 2024

Critical Linux CUPS Printing System Flaws Could Allow Remote Command Execution

A new set of security vulnerabilities has been disclosed in the OpenPrinting Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) on Linux systems that could permit remote command execution under certain conditions. “A remote unauthenticated attacker can silently replace existing printers’ (or install new ones) IPP urls with a malicious one, resulting in arbitrary command execution (on the […]

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