by Syndicated News Feed | Mar 10, 2025 | IT Security
New York State has sued Allstate Insurance for operating websites so badly designed they would deliver personal information in plain-text to anyone that went looking for it. The data was lifted from Allstate’s National General business unit, which ran a website...
by Syndicated News Feed | Mar 10, 2025 | IT Security
The Dark Storm hacktivist group claims to be behind DDoS attacks causing multiple X worldwide outages on Monday, leading the company to enable DDoS protections from Cloudflare. While X owner Elon Musk did not specifically state that DDoS attacks were behind the...
by Syndicated News Feed | Mar 10, 2025 | IT Security
Later this week, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will start distributing over $25.5 million in refunds to those misled by tech support companies Restoro and Reimage’s scare tactics. The FTC will send 736,375 PayPal payments starting March 13 to consumers...
by Syndicated News Feed | Mar 10, 2025 | IT Security
Analysis Walk into any hospital and ask the same question – “Which security system should we invest in?” – to both a doctor and a board member, and you may get different answers. The doctor chooses the system that leads to the most positive patient...
by Syndicated News Feed | Mar 9, 2025 | IT Security
US cities are warning of an ongoing mobile phishing campaign pretending to be texts from the city’s parking violation departments about unpaid parking invoices, that if unpaid, will incur an additional $35 fine per day. While parking scams have been around for...
by Syndicated News Feed | Mar 8, 2025 | IT Security
A software developer has been found guilty of sabotaging his ex-employer’s systems by running custom malware and installing a “kill switch” after being demoted at the company. Davis Lu, 55, of Houston, was a software developer for an Ohio company,...
by Syndicated News Feed | Mar 8, 2025 | IT Security
The ubiquitous ESP32 microchip made by Chinese manufacturer Espressif and used by over 1 billion units as of 2023 contains an undocumented “backdoor” that could be leveraged for attacks. The undocumented commands allow spoofing of trusted devices,...
by Syndicated News Feed | Mar 8, 2025 | IT Security
Apple has been working to harden the XNU kernel that powers its various operating systems, including iOS and macOS, with a feature called “exclaves.” The term appears to have first surfaced in a libc file in Apple’s open source software collection in...
by Syndicated News Feed | Mar 7, 2025 | IT Security
A federal jury in Cleveland has found a senior software developer guilty of sabotaging his employer’s systems – and he’s now facing a potential ten years behind bars. Davis Lu, 55, of Houston, Texas, was a seasoned coder employed by power-management biz...
by Syndicated News Feed | Mar 7, 2025 | IT Security
U.S. authorities have seized over $23 million in cryptocurrency linked to the theft of $150 million from a Ripple crypto wallet in January 2024. Investigators believe hackers who breached LastPass in 2022 were behind the attack. Despite the threat actors’...
