Spies Are Spying in Washington

The Department of Homeland Security said it found evidence of unauthorized Stingray devices carrying out unauthorized surveillance in Washington D.C.

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Panera Bread Leaked Data on Millions of Customers for Months

A security researcher notified the restaurant last August it was leaking customers' data on its website in plain text.

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Europol Arrests Suspect Behind Carbanak, $1.2 Billion Heist

The leader of the cybercrime gang, which targeted financial transfers dating back to 2013, was recently arrested in Spain.

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Orbitz Breach Exposes Customer Data, 880,000 Payment Cards

The breach, which occurred last fall, also leaked customer names, dates of birth, phone numbers, and email addresses.

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Facebook Will Be Just Fine

It's understandable for users to be mad but Facebook is built to collect user data; that's how the system works.

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Firefox, Safari, Edge All Fall at Pwn2Own 2018

Hackers took down browsers Firefox, Safari, and Edge, along with Oracle's VirtualBox, late last week as part of the annual Pwn2Own hacking competition.

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Adobe Patches Five Vulnerabilities, Three Critical

The bugs could be exploited to carry out remote code execution, the deletion of files, or information leakage.

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Slingshot APT Leveraged Router Vulnerabilities to Conduct Cyberespionage

The cyberespionage campaign, named Slingshot by researchers, managed to evade detection for six years.

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Senate Banking Bill Would Make Credit Freezes Free

The Senate is expected to approve a banking bill next week that includes a provision which would make credit report freezes free.

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Insiders Responsible for 58 Percent of Healthcare Breaches

58 percent of PHI data loss incidents from 2016 to 2017 involved internal actors according to Verizon's new Protected Health Information Data Breach Report.

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