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CrowdStrike fires ‘suspicious insider’ who passed information to hackers
Cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike has confirmed firing a “suspicious insider” last month who allegedly fed information about the company…
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Impersonators are (still) targeting companies with fake TechCrunch outreach
Hi, thanks as always for reading TechCrunch. We want to talk with you quickly about something important. A…
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Despite Chinese hacks, Trump’s FCC votes to scrap cybersecurity rules for phone and internet companies
The Federal Communications Commission voted 2-1 along party lines on Thursday to scrap rules that required U.S. phone…
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US, UK, and Australia sanction Russian ‘bulletproof’ web host used in ransomware attacks
The governments of the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia have sanctioned a Russian “bulletproof” web hosting company…
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How the classic anime ‘Ghost in the Shell’ predicted the future of cybersecurity 30 years ago
The year is 2030. An “infamous mystery hacker” known as the Puppet Master is wreaking havoc on the…
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DoorDash confirms data breach impacting users’ phone numbers and physical addresses
DoorDash disclosed a data breach that exposed the personal information of an unspecified number of users, which included…
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Surveillance tech provider Protei was hacked, its data stolen and its website defaced
A Russian telecom company that develops technology to allow phone and internet companies to conduct web surveillance and…
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CISA warns federal agencies to patch flawed Cisco firewalls amid ‘active exploitation’ across the US government
U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA says federal government departments are not sufficiently patching to protect against an active hacking…
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Police take down three cybercrime operations in latest round of ‘whack-a-mole’
An international coalition of law enforcement agencies coordinated by Europol targeted and took down three cybercrime operations in…
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Elon Musk’s X botched its security key switchover, locking users out
We’re seeing reports across social media that users of Elon Musk’s X are getting stuck in endless loops…