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1. DraftKings warns data of 67K people was exposed in account hacks

   By alf9872000, December 19, 2022
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   • December 19, 2022

2. Cybersecurity Budgets Are Going Up. So Why Aren't Breaches Going Down?

   By alf9872000, February 2, 2023
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   • 1,135 views
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   • Added by alf9872000
   • February 2, 2023

3. WordPress plugin installed on 1 million+ sites logged plaintext passwords

   By Karlston, July 13, 2023   

   • wordpress
   • plugin
   • 0 comments
   • 1,716 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • July 13, 2023

4. A New Supply Chain Attack Hit Close to 100 Victims—and Clues Point to China

   By aum, August 22, 2023
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   • 1,343 views
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   • Added by aum
   • August 22, 2023

5. Tech giants strongly oppose Australia's ban on social media for children under 16

   By Karlston, November 27, 2024
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   • 1,274 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • November 27, 2024

6. Pwn2Own hacking contest pays $1 million for WhatsApp exploit

   By Karlston, August 1, 2025   

   • pwn2own 2025
   • whatsapp
   • 0 comments
   • 461 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • August 1, 2025

7. Users hate it, but age-check tech is coming. Here’s how it works.

   By Karlston, March 18   

   • age check
   • 1 comment
   • 326 views
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   • Comment by DKT27
   • March 20

8. Clop Gang Partners Laundered $500 Million in Ransomware Payments

   By aum, June 25, 2021
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   • 1,074 views
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   • Added by aum
   • June 25, 2021

9. Microsoft Exchange Bug Exposes ~100,000 Windows Domain Credentials

   By aum, September 23, 2021
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   • 1,289 views
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   • Added by aum
   • September 23, 2021

10. Microsoft explains why TPM 2.0 and VBS on Windows 11 are so key for next-gen security

    By Karlston, October 5, 2021   

    • windows 11
    • tpm 2.0
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      • windows 11
      • tpm 2.0
      • vbs
    • 0 comments
    • 1,439 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • October 5, 2021

11. New hacker group from India exposed, targeting defense units in China, Pakistan

    By aum, November 20, 2021
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    • 1,426 views
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    • Added by aum
    • November 20, 2021

12. Microsoft Defender Preview is now available on Windows 10 and 11

    By Karlston, February 8, 2022
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    • 1,396 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • February 8, 2022

13. Brave joins Mozilla in declaring Google's First-Party Sets feature harmful to privacy

    By Karlston, May 23, 2022   

    • brave
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    • Added by Karlston
    • May 23, 2022

14. Fake 'Cthulhu World' P2E project used to push info-stealing malware

    By alf9872000, August 29, 2022
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    • 1,042 views
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    • Added by alf9872000
    • August 29, 2022

15. Beware: HP Support Assistant found vulnerable to DLL hijacking privilege escalation

    By Karlston, September 8, 2022   

    • hp
    • 0 comments
    • 1,320 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • September 8, 2022

16. Unpatched 15-year old Python bug allows code execution in 350k projects

    By alf9872000, September 21, 2022
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    • 1,353 views
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    • Added by alf9872000
    • September 21, 2022

17. OldGremlin hackers use Linux ransomware to attack Russian orgs

    By alf9872000, October 20, 2022
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    • 1,116 views
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    • Added by alf9872000
    • October 20, 2022

18. Epic Games to pay $520 million for privacy violations, dark patterns

    By alf9872000, December 19, 2022
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    • 1,053 views
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    • Added by alf9872000
    • December 19, 2022

19. WhatsApp spam calls may become a thing of the past

    By Karlston, March 6, 2023   

    • whatsapp
    • spam
    • 0 comments
    • 1,259 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • March 6, 2023

20. Microsoft enhances Windows 11 Phishing Protection with new features

    By Karlston, July 23, 2023   

    • windows 11
    • phishing
    • 0 comments
    • 1,592 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • July 23, 2023

21. We just saw one of the biggest months of ransomware ever recorded

    By aum, October 24, 2023
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    • 1,134 views
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    • Added by aum
    • October 24, 2023

22. Avast fined $16.5 million for ‘privacy’ software that actually sold users’ browsing data

    By Karlston, February 23, 2024   

    • avast
    • data slurping
    • 0 comments
    • 1,570 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • February 23, 2024

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

    By Karlston, April 12, 2024   

    • twitter/x
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    • 1,447 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • April 12, 2024

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

    By Karlston, April 27, 2024   

    • discord
    • 0 comments
    • 1,401 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • April 27, 2024

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

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