Data Breach—240,000 Credit Union Members Exposed A data breach has left over 240,000 credit union members exposed and vulnerable to potential identity theft and financial fraud. 12/20/2024 - 2:39 pm | View Link
Russian hackers use RDP proxies to steal data in MiTM attacks The Russian hacking group tracked as APT29 (aka "Midnight Blizzard") is using a network of 193 remote desktop protocol proxy servers to perform man-in-the-middle (MiTM) attacks to steal data and ... 12/18/2024 - 7:53 am | View Link
Texas medical school says hackers stole sensitive health data of 1.4 million individuals The university's incident website blocks search engines from listing the site, making it more difficult for affected individuals to find the website in search results. 12/17/2024 - 12:22 am | View Link
Hackers threaten to leak data of 17M California patients Hackers are reportedly threatening to release the data of 17 million patients from a California health system unless it meets their demands. 12/13/2024 - 2:42 am | View Link
iPhone users warned about a bug that hackers could use to steal data Apple iPhone users are being urged to update their devices to iOS 18.2 or else they may be at risk of cyberattacks, leaving their personal data vulnerable to hackers who could exploit security flaws. 12/11/2024 - 3:20 am | View Link
Airlines, banks, casinos, package deliveries, and emergency services around the world are recovering today from what could be "the largest tech outage in history." the root cause was not a foreign agent but linked back to a software update issued by a u-s based cybersecurity firm called "Crowd Strike." Could this have been avoided?
In London, a mobile phone is stolen every 6 minutes. "If I steal your phone, I'm stealing a thousand dollars," says digital identity expert David Birch. But "If I can get into your bank account, I can steal $100,000. So that's what they really want." So there are important steps to take immediately - including turning off message preview.
"Human beings had a play-based childhood from time immemorial," says author Jonathan Haidt. What caused teen mental health decline is "between 2010 and 2015, phones, screens come sweeping in The most important thing that parents can do is delay the age at which their child gets immersed in internet culture."
Fareed hosts a spirited debate on the House bill that could lead to a US ban on TikTok, with the American Enterprise Institute's Kori Schake and Glen Gerstell, former general counsel for the National Security Agency. They discuss national-security risks the Chinese-owned app might pose given its many American users.
A new government report warns that advanced Artificial Intelligence systems could pose an "extinction-level threat" to humans, and that the US must intervene. "I think we should be mindful of it," says Ret. Admiral James Stavridis. But he adds, "there have been big inventions in the past - the printing press, electricity, the internet - all of these have been a decried for the possibility of nefarious activity."