Google Adds Dark Web Monitoring to GMail Users A feature that used to be available to paid Google One subscribers will soon be available to all GMail users. Dark web monitoring tells you if your GMail email address is found on the dark web (hint: almost all of them are due to thousands of data […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Twitter Whistleblower Says There Was at Least One Chinese Spy Working at Twitter Mudge says that there were spies working for China and India working at the company. Twitter says of course. Probably because that was part of a deal-with-the-devil that Twitter made to be able to stay in the country. What Mudge says was […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Security Company Founder Charged with Hacking Georgia Hospital An indictment unsealed this week in a Northern District of Georgia court accuses Vikas Singla, 45, with 18 separate counts of aiding and abetting a 2018 cyber attack against the Gwinnett Medical Center in Georgia. According to his LinkedIn profile, he is (or maybe now was) the COO of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]AG Says They Unlocked Shooter’s iPhone Without Needing Apple to Hack Their Security For a couple of decades the FBI and Justice Department has been saying that software vendors need to insert backdoors into their security software to make it easier for the government to hack it if they want to. One high profile case […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Zip Slip Vulnerability Affects Thousands of Projects Researchers discovered a flaw in almost all zip-style file decompressors – RAR, TAR, 7ZIP-APK and others. The problem is caused by a very old attack vector called directory traversal that these libraries do not handle correctly. The decompressor libraries were likely downloaded from places like Github and Stack […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The security firm Symantec is reporting that hackers have compromised energy companies in the U.S. and Europe. Well that sounds bad enough, but we have to ask the question “what do you mean when you say compromised?” The answer is a little bit complicated. For most energy companies, in a bid to make it tougher […]
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