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Tax Season Ushers in Quickbooks Data-Theft Spike

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Quickbooks malware targets tax data for attackers to sell and use in phishing scams. Cybercriminals are ready for tax season with new malware designed to exfiltrate Quickbooks data and post...

Forget Bruce Willis. AI will protect us from killer asteroids instead

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Far from the nightmarish scenarios of all-consuming artificial intelligence of the Terminator franchise, in reality groups of neural networks are being deployed to protect humanity. One of the more...
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SonicWall Releases Second Set of February Firmware Patches

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Enterprise VulnerabilitiesFrom DHS/US-CERT's National Vulnerability Database CVE-2021-20182PUBLISHED: 2021-02-23 A privilege escalation flaw was found in openshift4/ose-docker-builder. The build container runs with high privileges using a chrooted environment instead of runc. If...
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Former CISA Director Chris Krebs Discusses Risk Management & Threat Intel

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Also on Krebs' radar: the cyber-response to COVID-19 and intelligence-sharing between private and public sectors.The Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which has held a historical...

Australian Man Sentenced for Selling Ecstasy on the Darkweb

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An Australian man was sentenced to prison after pleading guilty to distributing MDMA on the darkweb.Paul Rodgerson, 42, of Melbourne, Victoria, was sentenced in Victoria’s County Court for his...

Facebook ‘refriends’ Australia after changes to media laws

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Facebook said on Tuesday it will restore Australian news pages after negotiating changes with the government to a proposed law that forces tech giants to pay for media content...

IBM Squashes Critical Remote Code-Execution Flaw

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A critical-severity buffer-overflow flaw that affects IBM Integration Designer could allow remote attackers to execute code. IBM has patched a critical buffer-overflow error that affects Big Blue’s Integration Designer toolset,...

Mysterious Silver Sparrow Malware Found Nesting on 30K Macs

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A second malware that targets Macs with Apple’s in-house M1 chip is infecting machines worldwide — but it’s unclear why. Hard on the heels of a macOS adware being recompiled...

Daycare Webcam Service Exposes 12,000 User Accounts  

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NurseryCam suspends service across 40 daycare centers until a security fix is in place. NurseryCam, a webcam service used across 40 daycare centers in the U.K. by parents who want...

Finnish IT Giant Hit with Ransomware Cyberattack

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A major Finnish IT provider has been hit with a ransomware attack that has forced the company to turn off some services and infrastructure in a disruption to customers,...