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WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange Released from U.K. Prison, Heads to Australia

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Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, was released from a high security prison at Belmarsh, England, and left the country after more than five years of imprisonment for what the US government called the “largest compromises of classified information” in its history. Assange, 52, entered a guilty plea to one single count of arranging to […]

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Data of Nigerian Citizens sold online for 100 Naira

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The Paradigm Initiative, a digital rights organisation, has discovered that millions of Nigerians’ personal data is being sold on the internet for as little as 100 Naira (7 cents). This contains private information like a person’s phone number, driving licence, international passport, tax identification number (TIN), permanent voter’s card (PVC), driving licence, bank verification number

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BreachForums Founder Will Not Be Going To Jail

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Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, who founded and oversaw BreachForums, received a sentence of time served and 20 years of supervised release. Fitzpatrick, also known online as “pompompurin,” was detained in New York in March 2023 and charged with possessing child pornography and conspiring to commit access device fraud. After posting a $300,000 bond and entering a

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Microsoft Receives a €60 million Fine from France for Using Advertising Cookies Without User Consent.

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A €60 million ($63.88 million) fine has been levied against Microsoft’s Ireland subsidiary by France’s privacy authority for placing advertising cookies on customers’ computers without getting their permission, a violation of EU data protection laws. Users of Microsoft’s Bing search engine did not have a “tool to refuse cookies as simply as accepting them,” according

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LastPass Acknowledges Serious Data Breach, Password Vaults Stolen

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The LastPass security breach in August 2022 might have been more serious than the firm had initially revealed. The well-known password management service disclosed on Thursday that, using information stolen from the earlier break-in, malicious actors were able to steal a wealth of personal information belonging to its users, including their encrypted password vaults. Basic

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LastPass Suffers Another Security Breach; Exposed Some Customers Information

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Popular password-management firm LastPass announced that it is looking into a second security issue in which hackers gained access to some of its customer data. According to LastPass CEO Karim Toubba, “We recently discovered suspicious activity within a third-party cloud storage service, which is now used by both LastPass and its partner, GoTo.” In October

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Hackers Leak Another Set of Medibank Customer Data on the Dark Web

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Following its reluctance to pay a ransom, Medibank revealed on Thursday that the threat actors responsible for the disastrous cyberattack have disclosed another data dump of information taken from its systems on the dark web. The Australian health insurance said, “We are in the midst of reviewing the data, but the data released looks to

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Microsoft Confirms Server Misconfiguration Led to 65,000+ Companies’ Data Leak

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In response to a security mistake that left an endpoint publicly available over the internet without any authentication, Microsoft this week acknowledged that it unintentionally exposed information pertaining to thousands of customers. According to a warning from Microsoft, “this misconfiguration created the potential for unauthenticated access to some business transaction data corresponding to interactions between

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400 Android and iOS Apps Stealing User Log-in Credentials Have Been Detected by Facebook

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On Friday, Meta Platforms announced that it had discovered over 400 malicious apps on Android and iOS that it claimed were aimed at online users in order to steal their Facebook login credentials. According to a study provided with The Hacker News by the social media giant, “These programs were placed on the Google Play

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