Meta takes down 63,000 sextortion-related accounts on Instagram
Meta announced the take-down of 63,000 sextortion-related Instagram accounts in Nigeria alone. The action was directed against a group known as Yahoo Boys, a loosely…
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Windows update may present users with a BitLocker recovery screen
Some Windows users may see a BitLocker Recovery screen after applying the Microsoft patch Tuesday updates. BitLocker is a Windows security feature that encrypts entire…
TracFone will pay $16 million to settle FCC data breach investigation
Following three separate data breaches between 2021 and 2023 which exposed the proprietary information (PI) of TracFone Wireless customers, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced…
Google admits it can’t quite quit third-party cookies
For more than a year, Google has said it would phase out the third-party tracking cookies that power much of its advertising business online, proposing…
Heritage Foundation data breach containing personal data is available online
The Heritage Foundation this month denied that it had suffered an earlier system breach and the subsequent leaking of internal data. But the organization had…
CrowdStrike update at center of Windows “Blue Screen of Death” outage
A faulty update from the cybersecurity vendor CrowdStrike crashed countless Windows computers and sent them into a “Blue Screen of Death” (BSOD), grinding to a…
Number of data breach victims goes up 1,000%
Nope, that headline’s not a typo. Over one thousand percent. The Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) tracked 1,041,312,601 data breach victims in Q2 2024, an…
Gen Z breakups tainted by login abuse for spying and stalking, research shows
Breaking up is hard to do, but for younger Americans today, ending a romantic relationship requires more than a heart-to-heart conversation—it could also require protection…
Rite Aid says 2.2 million people affected in data breach
The US’ third-largest pharmacy chain Rite Aid has filed a data breach notification in which it reports that the data stolen during a June ransomware…
AI device Rabbit r1 logged user interactions without an option to erase them before selling
Rabbit, the manufacturer of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) assistant r1 has issued a security advisory telling users it’s found a potential security risk. If a…
How an AI “artist” stole a woman’s face, with Ali Diamond (Lock and Code S05E15)
This week on the Lock and Code podcast… Full-time software engineer and part-time Twitch streamer Ali Diamond is used to seeing herself on screen, probably…
Disney “breached”, data dumped online
A group of cybercriminals going by the handle NullBulge claims to have downloaded the Slack channels used by Disney’s developers. “#DisneySlackLeak #Disney has had their…