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A mysterious group has hijacked Tor exit nodes to perform SSL stripping attacks
Since January 2020, a mysterious threat actor has been adding servers to the Tor network in order to perform SSL stripping attacks on users accessing…
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Malware in PyPI Code Shows Supply Chain Risks
A code backdoor in a package on the Python Package Index demonstrates the importance of verifying code brought in from code repositories. The pace of…
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Adult Sites Lack Privacy, Open the Door for Harassment and Tracking
Third-party tracking is rampant on sites like Pornhub, with users’ sexual preferences in full view. An analysis of 22,500 porn sites found that third-party tracking…
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Russia’s Secret Intelligence Agency Hacked: ‘Largest Data Breach In Its History’
Red faces in Moscow this weekend, with the news that hackers have successfully targeted FSB—Russia’s Federal Security Service. The hackers managed to steal 7.5 terabytes of…
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NSA: Turn off these smartphone features if you want your location to stay secret
The U.S. National Security Agency has urged the Department of Defense and other national-security personnel to deactivate Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and GPS on their phones if…
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Slack resets user passwords after 2015 data breach
Slack will reset the passwords of users it believes are affected by a historical data breach that affected the company more than four years ago. In…
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Iran-Linked APT34 Invites Victims to LinkedIn for Fresh Malware Infections
The group was posing as a researcher from Cambridge and was found to have added three new malware families to its spy arsenal. A recent…
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75% of Security Awareness Pros Are Part Time
The 2019 Security Awareness Report published by SANS Security Awareness, a division of SANS Institute, found that across many organizations, there is an increased emphasis on…
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Florida teen arrested for orchestrating Twitter hack
In a press conference on Friday, US authorities announced they arrested the main suspect behind this month’s major Twitter hack and charged two other accomplices.…
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