Credit to Author: Ali Winston| Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2024 22:02:50 +0000
US prosecutors have charged Michail Chkhikvishvili, also known as “Commander Butcher,” with a litany of crimes, including alleged attempts to poison Jewish children in NYC.
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Credit to Author: Eric Geller| Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2024 10:00:00 +0000
After the Supreme Court limited the power of federal agencies to craft regulations, it’s likely up to Congress to keep US cybersecurity policy intact.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2024 21:10:24 +0000
A hacker group called “NullBulge” says it stole more than a terabyte of Disney’s internal Slack messages and files from nearly 10,000 channels in an apparent protest over AI-generated art.
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Credit to Author: Dell Cameron| Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2024 17:48:33 +0000
Senator Mark Warner is trying to pass new limits on when the government can wiretap Americans. At least two senators are quietly trying to stop him.
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Credit to Author: Kim Zetter| Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2024 17:57:27 +0000
A security researcher who assisted with the deal says he believes the only copy of the complete dataset of call and text records of “nearly all” AT&T customers has been wiped—but some risks may remain.
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Credit to Author: Andrew Couts| Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2024 10:30:00 +0000
Plus: The Heritage Foundation gets hacked over Project 2025, a car dealership software provider seems to have paid $25 million to a ransomware gang, and authorities disrupt a Russian bot farm.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2024 17:44:16 +0000
Telecom giant AT&T says a major data breach has exposed the call and text records of “nearly all” of its customers, epitomizing the dire state of data security.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2024 19:58:01 +0000
A new resolution echoes what 16 members of Congress have already said to the White House: It must do more to free one of the most storied crypto-focused federal agents in history.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2024 16:37:09 +0000
The cybercrime boss, who helped lead the prolific Zeus malware gang and was on the FBI’s “most wanted” list for years, has been sentenced to 18 years and ordered to pay more than $73 million.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Google is bringing the password-killing “passkey” tech to its Advanced Protection Program users more than a year after rolling them out broadly.
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