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Indiana’s attorney general filed two separate lawsuits against social media firm TikTok Wednesday alleging the platform promoted content to young users that isn’t age-appropriate and did not adequately protect the safety of users’ data. According to court documents, the TikTok algorithm “promotes a variety of inappropriate content to 13-17-year-old users throughout the United States.” Indiana’s
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Threat actors have been observed targeting companies operating within the cryptocurrency industry for financial gain. According to a new advisory published by Microsoft on Tuesday, attacks targeting this market have taken several forms over the past few months, including fraud, vulnerability exploitation, fake applications and info stealer deployment. “We are also seeing more complex attacks
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The Canadian branch of the human rights organization Amnesty International reported on Monday a sophisticated cyber-attack linked to China. The non-profit said it first spotted suspicious activity on October 05, 2022, and immediately engaged a team of forensic investigators and cybersecurity experts from Secureworks to protect its systems and investigate the source of the attack. According to
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Cloud company Rackspace has revealed it experienced a cybersecurity incident causing it to temporarily suspend its Hosted Exchange environment, which has now been restored. “On Friday, Dec 2, 2022, we became aware of an issue impacting our Hosted Exchange environment. We proactively powered down and disconnected the Hosted Exchange environment while we triaged to understand the
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Nearly nine in 10 (87%) of US defense contractors are failing to meet basic cybersecurity regulation requirements, according to research commissioned by CyberSheath. The survey of 300 US-based Department of Defense (DoD) contractors found that just 13% of respondents have a Supplier Risk Performance System (SPRS) score of 70 or above. Under the Defense Federal
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The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a critical flaw affecting Oracle Fusion Middleware systems to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog on Monday. The bug, which CISA confirmed has been exploited in the wild, allows unauthenticated attackers with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle Access Manager. Successful attacks targeting this vulnerability
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by Paul Ducklin Researchers at secure coding company Checkmarx have warned of porn-themed malware that’s been attracting and attacking sleazy internet users in droves. Unfortunately, the side-effects of this malware, dubbed Unfilter or Space Unfilter, apparently involve plundering data from the victim’s computer, including Discord passwords, thus indirectly exposing the victim’s contacts – such as
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Google released new software patches on Thursday to address a new zero-day vulnerability in its Chrome web browser. Writing in a security bulletin, the tech giant described the high-severity vulnerability (tracked CVE-2022-4135) as a heap buffer overflow in the graphics processing unit (GPU) component. Google attributed the discovery of the vulnerability to Clement Lecigne from its
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Remote monitoring and management (RMM) platform ConnectWise has patched a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability that could lead to remote code execution (RCE). Security researchers at Guardio Labs wrote about the flaw earlier this week, saying threat actors could exploit it to take complete control of the ConnectWise platform. “After testing and validating several attack vectors,