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1. Elon Musk’s X botched an attempt to replace “twitter.com” links with “x.com”

   By Karlston, April 12, 2024   

   • twitter/x
   • 0 comments
   • 958 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • April 12, 2024

2. Spy Pet, accused of scraping billions of public messages, taken down by Discord

   By Karlston, April 27, 2024   

   • discord
   • 0 comments
   • 883 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • April 27, 2024

3. Chinese Hackers Deliver Malware via ISP-Level DNS Poisoning

   By aum, August 5, 2024
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   • 510 views
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   • Added by aum
   • August 5, 2024

4. Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in Edge

   By Karlston, February 26   

   • microsoft edge
   • manifest v3
   • (and 1 more)

     Tagged with:

     • microsoft edge
     • manifest v3
     • canary channel
   • 2 comments
   • 560 views
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   • Comment by The Boca Deb
   • February 28

5. FIN7 Supervisor Gets 7-Year Jail Term for Stealing Millions of Credit Cards

   By aum, June 25, 2021
   • 0 comments
   • 649 views
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   • Added by aum
   • June 25, 2021

6. Mozilla Firefox to roll out DNS over HTTPS for Canadian users

   By Karlston, July 8, 2021
   • 0 comments
   • 680 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • July 8, 2021

7. Honeypot experiment reveals what hackers want from IoT devices

   By Karlston, December 23, 2021   

   • iot devices
   • 0 comments
   • 985 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • December 23, 2021

8. China claims it’s captured US NSA spy tool dubbed Trojan horse that can ‘control global internet equipment & steal info’

   By aum, March 14, 2022
   • 0 comments
   • 810 views
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   • Added by aum
   • March 14, 2022

9. New Unpatched Bug Could Let Attackers Steal Money from PayPal Users

   By aum, May 23, 2022
   • 0 comments
   • 686 views
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   • Added by aum
   • May 23, 2022

10. New Alchimist attack framework hits Windows, Linux and Mac

    By aum, October 13, 2022
    • 0 comments
    • 639 views
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    • Added by aum
    • October 13, 2022

11. Hacking group updates Furball Android spyware to evade detection

    By alf9872000, October 20, 2022
    • 0 comments
    • 657 views
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    • Added by alf9872000
    • October 20, 2022

12. New stealthy Python RAT malware targets Windows in attacks

    By alf9872000, January 25, 2023
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    • 1,133 views
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    • Added by alf9872000
    • January 25, 2023

13. The DuckDuckGo Windows web browser has launched in open beta for more privacy while surfing

    By Karlston, June 22, 2023   

    • duckduckgo
    • 0 comments
    • 846 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • June 22, 2023

14. Microsoft Edge will also block uBlock Origin, but it may not be just yet (Update)

    By Karlston, February 26   

    • microsoft edge
    • manifest v3
    • 2 comments
    • 627 views
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    • Comment by SPECTRUM
    • February 28

15. How to share files with sensitive content securely on Windows 11

    By Karlston, April 17   

    • windows 11
    • file sharing
    • 0 comments
    • 415 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • April 17

16. Crackonosh virus mined $2 million of Monero from 222,000 hacked computers

    By aum, June 25, 2021
    • 0 comments
    • 645 views
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    • Added by aum
    • June 25, 2021

17. REvil victims are refusing to pay after flawed Kaseya ransomware attack

    By Karlston, July 8, 2021   

    • ransomware
    • 0 comments
    • 937 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • July 8, 2021

18. Hive ransomware now encrypts Linux and FreeBSD systems

    By aum, October 29, 2021
    • 0 comments
    • 1,061 views
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    • Added by aum
    • October 29, 2021

19. Critical Sophos Firewall vulnerability allows remote code execution

    By Karlston, March 27, 2022   

    • sophos
    • 0 comments
    • 849 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • March 27, 2022

20. Email scams are getting more personal. They even fool cybersecurity experts

    By aum, July 12, 2022
    • 0 comments
    • 643 views
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    • Added by aum
    • July 12, 2022

21. Smart Move, Google

    By aum, November 24, 2022
    • 0 comments
    • 598 views
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    • Added by aum
    • November 24, 2022

22. Linux might be your best bet for heightening your desktop computer security

    By aum, October 12, 2023
    • 0 comments
    • 848 views
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    • Added by aum
    • October 12, 2023

23. I’m a hacker — 5 signs your accounts have been compromised

    By aum, December 25, 2023
    • 0 comments
    • 913 views
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    • Added by aum
    • December 25, 2023

24. Ongoing Iranian internet outage claimed by Israeli hacktivists

    By aum, August 5, 2024
    • 0 comments
    • 478 views
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    • Added by aum
    • August 5, 2024

25. Europe’s privacy watchdog probes Google over data used for AI training

    By Karlston, September 12, 2024   

    • google
    • privacy
    • (and 1 more)

      Tagged with:

      • google
      • privacy
      • eu
    • 0 comments
    • 566 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • September 12, 2024