Insurer fined $3M for exposing data of 650k clients for two years
The Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection (IMY) has fined insurer Trygg-Hansa $3 million for exposing on its online portal sensitive data belonging to hundreds of thousands of…
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Freecycle confirms massive data breach impacting 7 million users
Freecycle, an online forum dedicated to exchanging used items rather than trashing them, confirmed a massive data breach that affected more than 7 million users.…
Hackers exploit MinIO storage system to breach corporate networks
Image: Midjourney Hackers are exploiting two recent MinIO vulnerabilities to breach object storage systems and access private information, execute arbitrary code, and potentially take over…
Hackers target IT help desks to gain Super Admin, disable MFA
Identity and access management company Okta released a warning about social engineering attacks targeting IT service desk agents at U.S.-based customers in an attempt to trick them into resetting multi-factor…
Windows 11 23H2: Top three new features
The highly anticipated Windows 11 23H2 update is around the corner, and Microsoft has released its best features to testers in the Beta Channel. From…
Microsoft reminds users Windows will disable insecure TLS soon
Microsoft reminded users that insecure Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.0 and 1.1 protocols will be disabled soon in future Windows releases. The TLS secure communication…
University of Sydney data breach impacts recent applicants
The University of Sydney (USYD) announced that a breach at a third-party service provider exposed personal information of recently applied and enrolled international applicants. The…
Fake YouPorn extortion scam threatens to leak your sex tape
A new sextortion scam is making the rounds that pretends to be an email from the adult site YouPorn, warning that a sexually explicit video…
Children’s snack recalled after its website caught serving porn
Supermarket chain Lidl has been recalling four types of PAW Patrol-themed snacks across the UK. Except, the reason for the recall has got nothing to…
Yes, there’s an npm package called @(-.-)/env and some others like it
Strangely named npm packages like -, @!-!/-, @(-.-)/env, and –hepl continue to exist on the internet’s largest software registry. While not all of these may necessarily pose an…
New ‘YouPorn’ sextortion scam threatens to leak your sex tape
A new sextortion scam is making the rounds that pretends to be an email from the adult site YouPorn, warning that a sexually explicit video…
Chrome extensions can steal plaintext passwords from websites
A team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison has uploaded to the Chrome Web Store a proof-of-concept extension that can steal plaintext passwords from a…