Cyber-Security
Six Million Tax Returns Are ‘In Suspension’ At The IRS, And That’s Preventing Many Families From Receiving A Valuable Tax Credit
The IRS backlog of 2019 tax returns keeps shrinking — but now for the bad news. Six Million Tax Returns Are ‘In Suspension’ At The IRS, And That’s Preventing Many Families From Receiving A Valuable Tax Credit Days after the latest tax season ended, the Internal Revenue Service still has…
US Ransomware Attack Suspect Hails From A Small Ukrainian Town
Dubrovytsia is a small town near Ukraine’s northern border with Belarus that boasts a Nobel laureate, physicist Georges Charpak, and a high school that attracts tech-savvy teenagers interested in math and computer science. US Ransomware Attack Suspect Hails From A Small Ukrainian Town Dubrovytsia is also the hometown of Yaroslav…
Alibaba Admits It Was Slow To Report Software Bug After Beijing Rebuke
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. conceded it was slow to report a major vulnerability in widely used software because it was unaware of its severity, a day after China’s tech industry overseer suspended cooperation on cybersecurity with the online retail giant. Alibaba Admits It Was Slow To Report Software Bug After…
Japan Defense Ministry Finds Security Threat In Hack
A cyberattack on Mitsubishi Electric Corp. in January last year included data files that may impact Japan’s national security, the defense ministry says. Japan Defense Ministry Finds Security Threat In Hack CyberSecurity Newsflash! In a statement dated Friday, the ministry said its probe of the incident found 59 of the…
Ultimate Resource On Solana Outages And DDoS Attacks
Solana Mainnet Back Online After Day In The Dark. Ultimate Resource On Solana Outages And DDoS Attacks Engineers succeed in restoring service across Solana’s network of node-runners after the system was in the dark for almost 20 hours. Solana’s blockchain validators came back online early Wednesday following a marathon session…
Teen Cyber Prodigy Stumbled Onto Flaw Letting Him Hijack Teslas
David Colombo, a 19-year-old cybersecurity researcher in Germany, came upon the biggest discovery of his young career by accident. Teen Cyber Prodigy Stumbled Onto Flaw Letting Him Hijack Teslas * Cybersecurity Researcher Began Programming At 10 Years Old. Teen Cyber Prodigy Stumbled Onto Flaw Letting Him Hijack Teslas * Flaws…
Those $#%$# Idiots At The New York Federal Reserve Allow Hackers To Take $100million From An Account Held For Bangladesh
Hackers Compromise Swift System. Those $#%$# Idiots At The New York Federal Reserve Allow Hackers To Take $100million From An Account Held For Bangladesh Hackers have again gained access to the world’s largest system for transferring funds among banks, a breach the network’s operator said indicates a wide-ranging effort to…
T-Mobile Says Hackers Stole Data On About 37 Million Customers
Carrier says addresses, birth dates and other personal records were exposed, but not financial records. T-Mobile Says Hackers Stole Data On About 37 Million Customers T-Mobile US Inc. said hackers accessed data, including birth dates and billing addresses, for about 37 million of its customers, the second major security lapse…
Darkmail Pushes Privacy Into The Hands Of NSA-Weary Customers
Darkmail Pushes Privacy Into The Hands Of NSA-Weary Customers And Dark Wallet Hides Transactions Made With Bitcoin. Darkmail Pushes Privacy Into The Hands Of NSA-Weary Customers The Dallas man who battled the Federal Bureau of Investigation over access to Edward Snowden's emails has figured out his next act. Ladar…
California Lawmaker Says National Privacy Law Is a Priority
“I think there’s a real interest in making sure that this happens this year,” Rep. Jerry McNerney of House Energy and Commerce Committee says. California Lawmaker Says National Privacy Law Is a Priority National privacy legislation is a priority in Congress this year, said Rep. Jerry McNerney, a California Democrat…
The Pandemic Turbocharged Online Privacy Concerns
In recent years, concerns about digital threats to individual privacy have been growing more acute. The Pandemic Turbocharged Online Privacy Concerns From high-profile data breaches to hijacked doorbell cameras, we’ve seen a steady increase in the scale and volume of privacy-related incidents. But 2020, driven by a global pandemic and…
How To Protect Your Online Privacy While Working From Home
With the global coronavirus pandemic confining billions to their homes, masses of workers everywhere are adjusting to remote work for the first time. How To Protect Your Online Privacy While Working From Home This shift is forcing us to negotiate a new reality where there is no demarcation between work…