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Serious XSS Vulnerability Found In Avast Desktop Antivirus For Windows

Recently, Avast disclosed a security breach aimed at its CCleaner app. Once again, Avast made it to the news dueSerious XSS Vulnerability Found In Avast Deskto…

Windows

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Canadian Government of Nunavut (GN) Suffered Ransomware Attack

The Canadian Government of Nunavut (GN)) has recently disclosed a ransomware attack on its IT systems. Following the incident, numerousCanadian Government of N…

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Facebook Makes Changes To Groups API Following Privacy Breach

Continuing the new normal of fixing things after major security breaches, Facebook has once again made it into the news.Facebook Makes Changes To Groups API Fo…

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Marriott Warns Of A Security Breach Exposing Social Security Numbers Of Associates

Marriott has once again suffered a cyber attack. This time, Marriott warns some of its associates about a security breachMarriott Warns Of A Security Breach Ex…

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Targeted Ransomware Attacks Hit Several Spanish Companies

Everis, one of the largest IT consulting companies in Spain, suffered a targeted ransomware attack on Monday, forcing the company to shut down all its computer…

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Kernel Address Space Isolation Is Still Being Explored For Better Security

IBM developers and others continue exploring the potential for address space isolation in the Linux kernel to reduce the risk of leaking sensitive data in atta…

Linux

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First Cyber Attack 'Mass Exploiting' BlueKeep RDP Flaw Spotted in the Wild

Cybersecurity researchers have spotted a new cyberattack that is believed to be the very first but an amateur attempt to weaponize the infamous BlueKeep RDP vu…

Windows

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NordVPN Launches Bug Bounty Program Along With Other Security Upgrades

NordVPN has recently announced major security upgrades. The changes came following a security breach that hit the firm in theNordVPN Launches Bug Bounty Progra…

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Chinese Hackers Compromise Telecom Servers to Spy on SMS Messages

A group of Chinese hackers carrying out political espionage for Beijing has been found targeting telecommunications companies with a new piece of malware desig…

Linux

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US Fast Food Restaurant Krystal Warns Users Of A Security Breach

US-based chain of restaurants Krystal has recently alerted customers about a security breach. As revealed, the security incident affected aUS Fast Food Restaur…

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Leading Web Domain Name Registrars Disclose Data Breach

Another day, another massive data breach'this time affecting a leading web technology company, as well as both of its subsidiaries, from where millions of cust…

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Two Hackers Who Extorted Money From Uber and LinkedIn Plead Guilty

Two grey hat hackers have pleaded guilty to blackmailing Uber, LinkedIn, and other U.S. corporations for money in exchange for promises to delete data of milli…

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5 Places Where Hackers Are Stealthily Stealing Your Data In 2019

Skyrocketing data breaches bring incalculable losses to organizations and can cost cybersecurity executives their jobs.Here we examine the top five places in 2…

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Hackers Target Indian Nuclear Power Plant ' Everything We Know So Far

A story has been making the rounds on the Internet since yesterday about a cyber attack on an Indian nuclear power plant.Due to some experts commentary on soci…

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NordVPN strengthens security measures following server breach

Following an attack that breached one of its servers, NordVPN is taking several steps in an effort to show customers that it can still provide secure access to…

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The Pirate Bay was recently down for over a week due to a DDoS attack

It seems like the prolonged downtime and technical difficulties faced by The Pirate Bay over the past several weeks were due to a series of distributed denial …

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Italian Financial Service UniCredit Discloses Data Breach Affecting 3 Million Customers

This time, the victim is an Italian financial service that confessed to the security incident. Specifically, the firm UniCredit hasItalian Financial Service Un…

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Adobe Leaked 7.5 Million Records Of Creative Cloud Users' Data

Once again, a prominent technology firm has made a blunder with regard to users' privacy. This time, Adobe inadvertently exposedAdobe Leaked 7.5 Million Record…

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Russian Hackers Targeting Anti-Doping Agencies Ahead of 2020 Tokyo Olympics

As Japan gears up for the upcoming 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo for the next year, the country needs to brace itself for sophisticated cyberattacks, especiall…

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UniCredit Bank Suffers 'Data Incident' Exposing 3 Million Italian Customer Records

UniCredit, an Italian global banking and financial services company, announced today that it suffered a security incident that leaked some personal information…

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PHP RCE flaw actively exploited to pop NGINX servers

A recently patched vulnerability (CVE-2019-11043) in PHP is being actively exploited by attackers to compromise NGINX web servers, threat intelligence firm Bad…

Nginx PHP

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NordVPN Breached

NordVPN suffered a breach nineteen months ago, which has only recently been disclosed to the public. VPN security in general is questionable. What VPNs do you …

VPN

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Dark Web Site Taken Down without Breaking Encryption

The US government has successfully taken down a dark web site without any encryption backdoors, demonstrating that backdoors in communications systems which co…

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Unsecured Adobe Server Exposes Data for 7.5 Million Creative Cloud Users

The U.S. multinational computer software company Adobe has suffered a serious security breach earlier this month that exposed user records' database belonging …