General Cyber News via Ars Technica Risk Assessment

Worldcoin reveals "orb" scanner, aims to distribute cryptocurrency to 1 billion people.
Publish Date: 10/22/2021
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Spate of attacks turned creator channels into cryptocurrency scam livestreams.
Publish Date: 10/21/2021
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Outage lasted approximately 4 hours, causing issues with health app.
Publish Date: 10/14/2021
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Company suspects credential stuffing, but questions remain.
Publish Date: 10/14/2021
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He was hired to build a fake news op but now wants to put things right.
Publish Date: 10/14/2021
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Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative mandates data-breach reporting for gov't contractors.
Publish Date: 10/7/2021
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Twitch blames a "server configuration change" for the massive data leak.
Publish Date: 10/6/2021
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Syniverse hasn't revealed whether text messages were exposed.
Publish Date: 10/5/2021
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Attractive new design overshadowed by regressions and high system requirements.
Publish Date: 10/5/2021
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Configuration change cascaded down the data centers, bringing systems to a halt.
Publish Date: 10/5/2021
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The root cause of the worldwide outage appears to be a flubbed BGP route update.
Publish Date: 10/4/2021
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Telegram took months to fix "self-destruct" message bug. Then requested silence.
Publish Date: 10/4/2021
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GriftHorse campaign used clever techniques to avoid detection in Google Play.
Publish Date: 10/2/2021
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But the California Public Utilities Commission still has to give its approval.
Publish Date: 10/1/2021
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"Imagine a future without access to knowledge..."
Publish Date: 10/1/2021
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Users were asked to change passwords—but were not offered free credit monitoring.
Publish Date: 10/1/2021
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Another bug-bounty boondoggle leads to public disclosure before the bug is fixed.
Publish Date: 9/30/2021
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Intel's Loihi processors have electronics that behave a lot like neurons.
Publish Date: 9/30/2021
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Microsoft maintains it's not a security risk but is working toward a solution.
Publish Date: 9/30/2021
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Ilya Sachkov is founder of Group-IB, which specializes in ransomware attack prevention.
Publish Date: 9/29/2021
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