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1. Reddit was hit with a phishing attack. How it responded is a lesson for everyone

   By aum, February 12, 2023
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   • February 12, 2023

2. Reddit will force ad personalization based on your activity, and you can't opt out

   By Karlston, September 28, 2023   

   • reddit
   • ads
   • 2 comments
   • 985 views
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   • Comment by The Boca Deb
   • September 28, 2023

3. Reddit, AI spam bots explore new ways to show ads in your feed

   By Karlston, April 25, 2024   

   • reddit
   • ads
   • 0 comments
   • 870 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • April 25, 2024

4. Registrars can now block all domains that resemble brand names

   By Karlston, February 28, 2024
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   • 4,411 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • February 28, 2024

5. Report Warns of 'Catastrophic' Medical Device Security Risks

   By aum, December 22, 2023
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   • 760 views
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   • Added by aum
   • December 22, 2023

6. Report: Microsoft Defender is hogging Intel CPUs while AMD Ryzen remains unscathed

   By Karlston, June 28, 2022   

   • microsoft defender
   • 0 comments
   • 909 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • June 28, 2022

7. Reported Data Breach Of NYC Schools Compromises Sensitive Information Of 45,000 Students

   By aum, June 25, 2023
   • 2 comments
   • 860 views
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   • Comment by zteph2000
   • June 25, 2023

8. Reports Shows Over 13 Million Malware Events Targeting Linux Cloud

   By aum, September 27, 2021
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   • 726 views
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   • Added by aum
   • September 27, 2021

9. Researcher breaches Toyota supplier portal with info on 14,000 partners

   By alf9872000, February 7, 2023
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   • 644 views
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   • Added by alf9872000
   • February 7, 2023

10. Researcher drops three iOS zero-days that Apple refused to fix

    By Karlston, September 24, 2021   

    • ios
    • zero-days
    • 0 comments
    • 1,138 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • September 24, 2021

11. Researcher reveals ‘catastrophic’ security flaw in the Arc browser

    By Karlston, September 20, 2024   

    • arc browser
    • security flaw
    • 0 comments
    • 750 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • September 20, 2024

12. Researcher uncovers dozens of sketchy Chrome extensions with 4 million installs

    By Karlston, April 11   

    • google chrome
    • extensions
    • 0 comments
    • 251 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • April 11

13. Researcher uncovers one of the biggest password dumps in recent history

    By Karlston, January 18, 2024
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    • 770 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • January 18, 2024

14. Researchers claim breakthrough in fight against AI’s frustrating security hole

    By Karlston, April 16   

    • ai
    • security
    • 0 comments
    • 227 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • April 16

15. Researchers come up with better idea to prevent AirTag stalking

    By Karlston, December 28, 2023   

    • apple
    • airtag
    • 0 comments
    • 801 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • December 28, 2023

16. Researchers create 'self-aware' algorithm to ward off hacking attempts

    By aum, October 8, 2021
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    • 766 views
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    • Added by aum
    • October 8, 2021

17. Researchers Demonstrate New Fingerprinting Attack on Tor Encrypted Traffic

    By aum, November 15, 2021
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    • 814 views
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    • Added by aum
    • November 15, 2021

18. Researchers Detail How Pakistani Hackers Targeting Indian and Afghan Governments

    By aum, December 3, 2021
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    • 699 views
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    • Added by aum
    • December 3, 2021

19. Researchers Detail New Malware Campaign Targeting Indian Government Employees

    By aum, November 5, 2022
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    • 649 views
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    • Added by aum
    • November 5, 2022

20. Researchers Disclose Years-Old Vulnerabilities in Avast and AVG Antivirus

    By aum, May 5, 2022
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    • 728 views
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    • Added by aum
    • May 5, 2022

21. Researchers discover 14 new data-stealing web browser attacks

    By Karlston, December 3, 2021
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    • 779 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • December 3, 2021

22. Researchers Discover First Known Malware Targeting Windows Containers

    By aum, June 7, 2021
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    • 795 views
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    • Added by aum
    • June 7, 2021

23. Researchers discover first UEFI bootkit malware for Linux

    By Karlston, November 28, 2024   

    • linux
    • bootkit
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      • linux
      • bootkit
      • malware
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    • 1,054 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • November 28, 2024

24. Researchers Discover Hundreds of Amazon RDS Instances Leaking Users' Personal Data

    By alf9872000, November 16, 2022
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    • 686 views
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    • Added by alf9872000
    • November 16, 2022

25. Researchers Discover Microsoft-Signed FiveSys Rootkit in the Wild

    By aum, October 22, 2021
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    • 840 views
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    • Added by aum
    • October 22, 2021