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Iranian hackers blamed for breach of Los Angeles transit system that took weeks to recover
Security researchers say a March violation of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, or LACMTA, was the work of Iranian-backed hackers. Israeli startup Gambit Security…
Microsoft is under fire for threatening a security researcher with a criminal investigation
After a security researcher published a series of unpatched bugs in Microsoft products, along with code to exploit them, the company is now threatening legal action…
A security flaw in prison payphone service Pay Tel exposed publicly the driver’s licenses of more than 300,000 callers
Prison call service Pay Tel has secured a publicly exposed cloud server that stores hundreds of thousands of driver’s licenses and other sensitive information about people…
Hackers are targeting Signal users in an attempt to steal their chat backups as part of a new hacking campaign, according to TechCrunch. On Wednesday, Washington…
CrowdStrike and Google take down botnet used by hackers to target open source software developers
CrowdStrike, in partnership with Google and Shadowserver, a non-profit organization that scans and monitors the internet for cyberattacks, took down a botnet used by cybercriminals to…
UK Visa Portal Revealed Thousands of Applicants’ Passports and Selfies — Then Invited Lawyers to Ask Us
A website called the UK Visa Portal has publicly exposed thousands of passports and selfies of applicants who paid the site to obtain UK immigrant visas,…
UK Visa portal leaked thousands of applicant passports and selfies online – and hasn’t fixed the leak
A website called the UK Visa Portal is publicly disclosing the passports and selfies of applicants who registered and paid for the website to obtain a…
In the long history of hacking, there have been numerous data breaches that, years or even decades later, remain unsolved. Countless hackers and the hacker groups…
For months, fraudsters have been exploiting a loophole that allows them to send spam emails from an internal Microsoft email address commonly used to send legitimate…
An international coalition of law enforcement agencies announced Thursday that they have taken down a popular virtual private network service used by cybercriminals and arrested its…