Categories: News Tags: Week Tags: security Tags: October Tags: 2023 A list of topics we covered in the week of October 2 to October 8, 2023 |
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Credit to Author: David Gilbert| Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2023 15:19:31 +0000
X’s Trust and Safety team says it’s working to remove false information related to the Israel-Hamas war. Meanwhile, Elon Musk is sharing conspiracies and chatting with QAnon promoters.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2023 13:50:29 +0000
Google is making passkeys, the emerging passwordless login technology, the default option for users as it moves to make passwords “obsolete.”
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman, Matt Burgess| Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2023 22:21:46 +0000
Since the conflict escalated, hackers have targeted dozens of government websites and media outlets with defacements and DDoS attacks, and attempted to overload targets with junk traffic to bring them down.
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Credit to Author: David Gilbert| Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2023 15:53:47 +0000
People who have turned to X for breaking news about the Israel-Hamas conflict are being hit with old videos, fake photos, and video game footage at a level researchers have never seen.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2023 10:00:00 +0000
The same chaotic day FTX declared bankruptcy, someone began stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from its coffers. A WIRED investigation reveals the company’s “very crazy night” trying to stop them.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess, Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2023 19:32:01 +0000
Hundreds dead, thousands wounded—Hamas’ surprise attack on Israel shows the limits of even the most advanced and invasive surveillance dragnets as full-scale war erupts.
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Credit to Author: Andrew Couts| Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2023 13:00:00 +0000
Plus: Sony confirms a breach of its networks, US federal agents get caught illegally using phone location data, and more.
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Credit to Author: David Gilbert| Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2023 11:00:00 +0000
A “friendlier” front for racist extremism has spread rapidly across the US in recent months, as active club channels network on Telegram’s encrypted messaging app.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2023 21:53:37 +0000
At least a million data points from 23andMe accounts appear to have been exposed on BreachForums. While the scale of the campaign is unknown, 23andMe says it’s working to verify the data.
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