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1. As many as 2 million Cisco devices affected by actively exploited 0-day

   By Karlston, September 25, 2025   

   • cisco
   • 0-day
   • 0 comments
   • 416 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • September 25, 2025

2. Slack users horrified to discover messages used for AI training

   By Karlston, May 18, 2024   

   • slack
   • 1 comment
   • 1,706 views
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   • Comment by SatinOverlord
   • May 20, 2024

3. Professor sues Meta to allow release of feed-killing tool for Facebook

   By Karlston, May 9, 2024   

   • facebook
   • 0 comments
   • 1,506 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • May 9, 2024

4. Millions of IPs remain infected by USB worm years after its creators left it for dead

   By Karlston, April 26, 2024   

   • usb
   • worm
   • 0 comments
   • 1,547 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • April 26, 2024

5. Here’s how potent Atomic credential stealer is finding its way onto Macs

   By Karlston, September 23, 2025   

   • apple macs
   • impersonation
   • 0 comments
   • 347 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • September 23, 2025

6. What we know about the xz Utils backdoor that almost infected the world

   By Karlston, April 1, 2024   

   • linux
   • backdoor
   • 1 comment
   • 2,190 views
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   • Comment by Nuclear Fallout
   • April 1, 2024

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

   By Karlston, April 25, 2024   

   • reddit
   • ads
   • 0 comments
   • 1,328 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • April 25, 2024

8. Microsoft blamed for “a cascade of security failures” in Exchange breach report

   By Karlston, April 4, 2024   

   • microsoft
   • 1 comment
   • 1,532 views
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   • Comment by The Boca Deb
   • April 4, 2024

9. Roku forcing 2-factor authentication after 2 breaches of 600K accounts

   By Karlston, April 19, 2024   

   • roku
   • breach
   • (and 1 more)

     Tagged with:

     • roku
     • breach
     • 2fa
   • 0 comments
   • 1,344 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • April 19, 2024

10. Welcome to the age of paranoia as deepfakes and scams abound

    By Karlston, May 13, 2025   

    • deepfakes
    • scams
    • (and 1 more)

      Tagged with:

      • deepfakes
      • scams
      • ai
    • 0 comments
    • 819 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • May 13, 2025

11. Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent

    By Karlston, March 20, 2024   

    • privacy
    • 0 comments
    • 1,362 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • March 20, 2024

12. Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility breaks encrypted SSH connections

    By Karlston, March 30, 2024   

    • linux
    • backdoor
    • 0 comments
    • 1,622 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • March 30, 2024

13. Unpatchable vulnerability in Apple chip leaks secret encryption keys

    By Karlston, March 21, 2024   

    • apple
    • vulnerability
    • 0 comments
    • 1,665 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • March 21, 2024

14. Can a $10 Raspberry Pi break your PC’s disk encryption? It’s complicated.

    By Karlston, February 13, 2024
    • 0 comments
    • 1,381 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • February 13, 2024

15. AI-powered romantic chatbots are a privacy nightmare

    By Karlston, February 15, 2024   

    • ai chatbots
    • privacy
    • 0 comments
    • 1,474 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • February 15, 2024

16. Android phones could soon warn you of “Stingrays” snooping on your communications

    By Karlston, June 27, 2025   

    • android
    • 0 comments
    • 720 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • June 27, 2025

17. Encrypted email service Skiff gets acquired, will shut down in six months

    By Karlston, February 14, 2024
    • 0 comments
    • 1,515 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • February 14, 2024

18. Ambient light sensors can reveal your device activity. How big a threat is it?

    By Karlston, January 23, 2024
    • 0 comments
    • 1,281 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • January 23, 2024

19. How a 27-year-old busted the myth of Bitcoin’s anonymity

    By Karlston, January 18, 2024   

    • bitcoin
    • privacy
    • 0 comments
    • 1,543 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • January 18, 2024

20. SSH protects the world’s most sensitive networks. It just got a lot weaker

    By Karlston, December 20, 2023   

    • ssh
    • 0 comments
    • 5,109 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • December 20, 2023

21. Hackers stole ancestry data of 6.9 million users, 23andMe finally confirmed

    By Karlston, December 5, 2023
    • 0 comments
    • 1,250 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • December 5, 2023

22. Just about every Windows and Linux device vulnerable to new LogoFAIL firmware attack

    By Karlston, December 6, 2023
    • 0 comments
    • 1,592 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • December 6, 2023

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

    By Karlston, December 28, 2023   

    • apple
    • airtag
    • 0 comments
    • 1,264 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • December 28, 2023

24. After luring customers with low prices, Amazon stuffs Fire TVs with ads

    By Karlston, November 9, 2023   

    • smart tv
    • ads
    • 1 comment
    • 1,433 views
    • 
    • Comment by Karlston
    • November 9, 2023

25. In a first, cryptographic keys protecting SSH connections stolen in new attack

    By Karlston, November 13, 2023
    • 0 comments
    • 1,480 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • November 13, 2023