How One Bad CrowdStrike Update Crashed the World’s Computers
That deeper access also introduces a far higher possibility that security software—and updates to that software—will crash the whole system, says Matthieu Suiche, head of…
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Huge Microsoft Outage Linked to CrowdStrike Takes Down Computers Around the World
Banks, airports, TV stations, hotels, and countless other businesses are all facing widespread IT outages, leaving flights grounded and causing widespread disruption, after Windows machines…
Alleged ‘Maniac Murder Cult’ Leader Indicted Over Plot to Kill Jews
Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn on Tuesday unsealed a sweeping felony indictment against the 20-year-old they say is the head of a violent Eastern European skinhead…
The US Supreme Court Kneecapped US Cyber Strategy
The Commerce Department could hit a legal snag with its proposal to require cloud companies to verify their customers’ identities and report on their activities.…
Hackers Claim to Have Leaked 1.1 TB of Disney Slack Messages
A group calling itself “NullBulge” published a 1.1-terabyte trove of data late last week that it claims is a dump of Disney’s internal Slack archive.…
US Senators Secretly Work to Block Safeguards Against Surveillance Abuse
The source adds that Cornyn claims the new rules threaten to grant foreign nationals greater rights than those of criminal defendants, something that foreign adversaries…
AT&T Paid a Hacker $370,000 to Delete Stolen Phone Records
Despite the payment and deletion, some AT&T customers and those who communicated with them may still be at risk, given that others may have samples…
The Sweeping Danger of the AT&T Phone Records Breach
From targeted wiretaps to bulk surveillance dragnets, phone companies have been at the center of privacy concerns for decades—and their time in the limelight isn’t…
Spyware Users Exposed in Major Data Breach
But that’s not all. Each week, we round up the security news we didn’t cover in depth ourselves. Click on the headlines to read the…
Pressure Grows in Congress to Treat Crypto Investigator Tigran Gambaryan, Jailed in Nigeria, as a Hostage
When Tigran Gambaryan was first invited in February to meet with the Nigerian government in order to settle a dispute with his employer, the cryptocurrency…
Notorious Hacker Kingpin ‘Tank’ Is Finally Going to Prison
For more than a decade, Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov—a Ukrainian who used the online hacker name “Tank”—managed to evade cops. When FBI and Ukrainian officials raided…
Google Is Adding Passkey Support for Its Most Vulnerable Users
The password killers known as “passkeys” are now available to users of Google’s Advanced Protection Program, which works to add an additional layer of account…