Google secretly gave Facebook perks, data in ad deal, U.S. states allege
Facebook Inc and Alphabet’s Google, the two biggest players in online advertising, used a series of deals to consolidate their market power illegally, Texas and nine other states alleged...
Surging investor interest sends bitcoin to peak past $23,000
Bitcoin rose to a record high on Thursday, just a day after passing the $20,000 milestone for the first time, amid surging interest from larger investors. The world’s highest-profile cryptocurrency...
5M WordPress Sites Running ‘Contact Form 7’ Plugin Open to Attack
A critical unrestricted file upload bug in Contact Form 7 allows an unauthenticated visitor to take over a site running the plugin.
A patch for the popular WordPress plugin...
3 million users hit with infected Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge extensions
By:
Steve Zurier
Researchers at Avast Wednesday reported that some 3 million people may have been infected with...
Air-Gap Attack Turns Memory Modules into Wi-Fi Radios
Attack turns SDRAM buses into a Wi-Fi radio to leak data from air-gapped computers.
Super-secure air-gapped computers are vulnerable to a new type of attack that can turn a...
Nuclear Weapons Agency Hacked in Widening Cyberattack – Report
Sources said the DoE suffered “damage” in the attack, which also likely extends beyond the initially known SolarWinds Orion attack vector.
The Energy Department and its National Nuclear Security...
Software Supply-Chain Attack Hits Vietnam Government Certification Authority
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
Cybersecurity researchers today disclosed a new supply-chain attack targeting the Vietnam Government Certification Authority (VGCA) that compromised the agency's digital signature toolkit to install a backdoor on...
Research: nearly all of your messaging apps are secure
In recent research, the CyberNews Investigation team discovered that a chat service, most likely based in China, had leaked more than 130,000 extremely NSFW images, video and audio recordings...
