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The cybersecurity community on Reddit responded in disbelief this month when a self-described Air National Guard member with top secret security clearance began questioning the arrangement they’d made with company called DSLRoot, which was paying $250 a month to plug a pair of laptops into the Redditor’s high-speed Internet connection in the United States. This…
A 20-year-old Florida man at the center of a prolific cybercrime group known as “Scattered Spider” was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison today, and ordered to pay roughly $13 million in restitution to victims. Noah Michael Urban of Palm Coast, Fla. pleaded guilty in April 2025 to charges of wire fraud and conspiracy….
A 22-year-old Oregon man has been arrested on suspicion of operating “Rapper Bot,” a massive botnet used to power a service for launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against targets — including a March 2025 DDoS that knocked Twitter/X offline. The Justice Department asserts the suspect and an unidentified co-conspirator rented out the botnet to online…
Microsoft today released updates to fix more than 100 security flaws in its Windows operating systems and other software. At least 13 of the bugs received Microsoft’s most-dire “critical” rating, meaning they could be abused by malware or malcontents to gain remote access to a Windows system with little or no help from users. August’s…
We were recently travelling to faraway lands, doing meet and greets with gov partners, when one of them posed an interesting idea: What if people from our part of the world could see a link through to our local resource on data breaches provided by the gov? Initially, I was sceptical, primarily because no matter…
Spoiler: I have data from the story in the title of this post, it’s mostly what I expected it to be, I’ve just added it to HIBP where I’ve called it “Data Troll”, and I’m going to give everyone a lot more context below. Here goes: Headlines one-upping each other on the number of passwords…
SOMERVILLE, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–SmartBear, a leading provider of software quality and visibility solutions, has honored Unbound, an international nonprofit supporting families in poverty, and Toyota Motor North America, the parent company for Toyota’s marketing, sales, engineering, and manufacturing arms in North America, with its Software for Good Award. The award celebrates organizations that go beyond innovation in software…
A poisoned Google Calendar invite that can hijack your smart home, a man is hospitalised after ChatGPT told him to season his food with… pesticide, and some thoughts on Superman’s latest cinematic outing. All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley, joined this…
Stripe said the information given by its support staff to some customers was “totally wrong.”
Electricity rates for individuals and small businesses could rise sharply as Amazon, Google, Microsoft and other technology companies build data centers and expand into the energy business.
