FEMA Leaked Data From 2.3 Million Disaster Survivors
The Homeland Security Department inspector general released a damning report about FEMA’s inability to safeguard the personal info of the people it helped.
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Facebook Stored Millions of Passwords in Plaintext—Change Yours Now
Facebook has disclosed that it stored hundreds of millions of user passwords in plaintext, where employees could search them.
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An Android Vulnerability Went Unfixed For Over Five Years
Older Android devices—of which there are over 100 million still in use—will remain exposed.
Source: Wired – An Android Vulnerability Went Unfixed
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How Hackers Pulled Off a $20 Million Mexican Bank Heist
Welcome to the world of fake accounts, phantom funds, and money mules.
Source: Wired – How Hackers Pulled Off a Million Mexican
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Internal Docs Show How ICE Gets Surveillance Help From Local Cops
Documents obtained by the ACLU show how ICE uses unofficial channels to access billions of license plate location data points—including some sanctuary cities.
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Why It's So Hard to Restart Venezuela's Power Grid
Approaching a full week, Venezuela’s national power outage shows just how hard it is to restart a grid from scratch.
Source: Wired
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An Email Marketing Company Left 809 Million Records Exposed Online
A exposed database belonging to Verifications.io contained both personal and business information, including 763 million unique email addresses.
Source: Wired – An
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The NSA Makes Ghidra, a Powerful Cybersecurity Tool, Open Source
No one’s better at hacking than the NSA. And now one if its powerful tools is available to everyone for free.
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Clever Tool Uses Apple’s Video Game Logic Engine to Protect Macs
A new Mac security service called GamePlan uses a system’s own indicators, and some video game magic, to keep a lookout.
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Backstory: An Alphabet Moonshot Wants to Store the Security Industry's Data
Alphabet-owned Chronicle has announced Backstory, an effort to store network intelligence data and help trace cybersecurity incidents back to their roots.
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