A new survey by CompareCards shows that 40% of American cardholders put themselves at risk of identity theft in the past month by providing their full Social Security number in an online form. Despite …
China’s Red-Hot Face-Swapping App Provokes Privacy Concern
Once again, a popular mobile app for generating deepfakes, i.e. images or videos doctored by artificial intelligence (AI), has prompted a major privacy backlash. Since last weekend, Chinese face-swap …
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Data of 90K Mastercard Priceless Specials Members Shared Online
Data breach notification website Have I Been Pwned has added a new database containing the personal information of 90,000 German members of Mastercard's "Priceless Specials" loyalty program. The data, …
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Report: China behind iPhone hacking, targeted Android and Windows too
China was behind the years-long campaign targeting iPhone users that was recently uncovered by Google researchers, two separate reports claim. Last week, Google published a report about the campaign, …
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Some of Russia’s surveillance tech leaked data for more than a year
Government mandated hardware wiretaps installed on the networks of Russian Internet service providers (ISPs) have been leaking sensitive user information including GPS coordinates and …
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Foxit Software Discloses Data Breach Exposing User Passwords
Foxit Software, a software provider best known for its PDF reader, has experienced a data breach exposing the private information of users with a free account. According to the firm, "third parties" …
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US Unleashes Military to Fight Fake News, Disinformation
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) aims to develop software that can spot fake news stories as well as fake audio, images and video (deepfakes) in order to combat “large-scale, …
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Why Twitter Blames AT&T For The Hack Of Its CEO Jack Dorsey Account, Sending Shocking Racist Tweets
Last Friday, threat actors compromised the Twitter account of the social media platform's very own CEO Jack Dorsey and used it to send out a string of vulgar and racist tweets, including a bomb threat …
WordPress sites under attack as hacker group tries to create rogue admin accounts
Threat actors are adding backdoor admin accounts to compromised WordPress websites as part of an ongoing campaign targeting over 10 vulnerable plugins for the highly popular content management system, …
US Cyberattack Hurt Iran’s Ability to Target Oil Tankers, Officials Say
In June of this year, US security experts destroyed a database used by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) to plan attacks against international oil tankers in the Persian Gulf, US …
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