Tesla has withdrawn its request for a court-ordered restraining order against Randeep Hothi, documents submitted to the court where the complaint was filed revealed Friday. Hothi, an individual who is very vocal on social media about his short position in Tesla, had gone to extreme and potentially dangerous lengths in his avid attempts to collect
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New information discovered in the aftermath of Slack’s security breach from March 2015 has prompted the company to reset the passwords of some of its users, according to a July 18 blog post. Slack explained that it reset account passwords for 1% of its users. Any users who created their account before March 2015 and
by Danny Bradbury Mozilla is expanding the privacy tools built into Firefox by integrating its Lockwise password manager directly into the browser and expanding its support for the Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) website. Lockwise is an app for iOS and Android, and an add-on for the desktop version of Firefox. It’s a password manager
If you’ve been on social media recently, you’ve probably seen some people in your feed posting images of themselves looking elderly. That’s because FaceApp, an AI face editor that went viral in 2017, is making a major comeback with the so-called FaceApp Challenge — where celebrities and others use the app’s old age filter to
ESET researchers discover fraudulent schemes piggybacking on the popularity of the face-modifying tool FaceApp, using a fake “Pro” version of the application as a lure The latest hype around the FaceApp application has attracted scammers who want to make a quick profit. The FaceApp application, which offers various face-modifying filters, is available for both Android
If you are in Kazakhstan and unable to access the Internet service without installing a certificate, you’re not alone. The Kazakhstan government has once again issued an advisory to all major local Internet Service Providers (ISPs) asking them to make it mandatory for all their customers to install government-issued root certificates on their devices in
There may be no “dark side” of the Moon, but when and where it is dark, it’s dark — and stays that way for two weeks. If we’re going to have colonists up there, they’ll need to stay warm and keep the lights (among other things) on for the long lunar night. Turns out bricks
VertoFX, an Africa and emerging markets focused currency trading and payment startup, has raised a $2.1 million seed round, led by Accelerated Digital Ventures. The London based company, with a subsidiary in Lagos, Nigeria, has created a platform that allows businesses and banks to exchange and make payments in exotic foreign currencies that don’t often
Evidence suggests that new versions of malware families are linked to the elusive Ke3chang group, along with a previously unreported backdoor, according to researchers at ESET. The researchers have long been tracking the advanced persistent threat (APT) group and suspect that it operates out of China, according to today’s press release. Named Okrum by ESET,
In the wake of GandCrab shutting down and master decryption keys being released, a new ransomware threat is emerging. The GandCrab ransomware had been one of the more dangerous threats since its first appearance in early 2018, but the group behind the ransomware as a service (RaaS) announced its retirement last month. On Monday, the
by Paul Ducklin The Naked Security Podcast is back! Everyone loved the content of our podcasts, but quite a few of you said that you found them hard to listen to. We didn’t have a studio to record in, so the sound quality wasn’t great – you had to concentrate on the words themselves rather
Now in its 22nd year, Black Hat is an information security event showcasing the latest research, newest technology, scariest threats, and biggest trends. Around 19,000 security professionals will be taking over Las Vegas’s Mandalay Bay during the six-day event. Before the security world convenes the first week in August, I spoke with McAfee leadership and
Tracking the malicious activities of the elusive Ke3chang APT group, ESET researchers have discovered new versions of malware families linked to the group, and a previously unreported backdoor In this blogpost, we will sum up the findings published in full in our white paper “Okrum and Ketrican: An overview of recent Ke3chang group activity”. The
If you use Slack, a popular cloud-based team collaboration server, and recently received an email from the company about a security incident, don’t panic and read this article before taking any action. Slack has been sending a “password reset” notification email to all those users who had not yet changed passwords for their Slack accounts
Cyrus Radfar Contributor More posts by this contributor Amazon isn’t to blame for the Postal Service’s woes, but it will need to innovate to survive Dear United: Autonomous cars will pull you out of your seat Two years ago, Lime was a great addition to guacamole, rather than a sidewalk. The market wasn’t sure about
EBay said today it is buying a 5.5% stake in e-commerce marketplace Paytm Mall as the global firm makes another push to gain footprint in India’s fast-growing e-commerce market. The two firms did not disclose financial terms of the deal, but a source familiar with the matter told TechCrunch that EBay has invested between $150
The 2019 Security Awareness Report published by SANS Security Awareness, a division of SANS Institute, found that across many organizations, there is an increased emphasis on the need for awareness and training programs. According to the report, more than 75% of those who are currently responsible for security awareness and training are spending less than half
Getting started can be the most tedious part of any task, especially when the task is as daunting and perplexing as network security. But the task is manageable, as long as one understands the topic’s basics. To ensure a network security strategy operates optimally and efficiently, IT pros should start with the basics, such as
by Mark Stockley For the last two months the infosec world has been waiting to see if and when criminals will successfully exploit CVE-2019-0708, the remote, wormable vulnerability in Microsoft’s RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol), better known as BlueKeep. The expectation is that sooner or later a BlueKeep exploit will be used to power some self-replicating
Everyday thousands of people receive emails with malicious attachments in their email inbox. Disguised as a missed payment or an invoice, a cybercriminal sender tries to entice a victim to open the document and enable the embedded macro. This macro then proceeds to pull in a whole array of nastiness and infect a victim’s machine.
Keeping up with BlueKeep; or how many internet-facing systems, and in which countries and industries, remain ripe for exploitation? As of early July, more than 805,000 internet-facing systems remained susceptible to the BlueKeep security vulnerability, the news of which spooked the internet two months ago and prompted a flurry of alerts urging users and organizations
Eastern European country Bulgaria has suffered the biggest data breach in its history that compromised personal and financial information of 5 million adult citizens out of its total population of 7 million people. According to multiple sources in local Bulgarian media, an unknown hacker earlier this week emailed them download links to 11GB of stolen
SpaceX’s test vehicle, a small-scale demonstration craft for some Starship components, caught fire after what appears to be a fuel leak or dump following an otherwise successful static fire test last night. It’s not clear why the craft suddenly burst into flames, or whether it was seriously or even superficially damaged. The “Starhopper,” as SpaceX
Icertis, a Washington-headquartered startup that develops cloud-based software to help large companies manage contracts, has raised $115 million at more than a billion dollar valuation to become the latest SaaS unicorn as it looks to further expand its footprints across the globe. The Series E round for the 10-year-old firm was led by Greycroft and
Passengers heading to Tampa, Florida, experienced an unusual delay on Tuesday. Those on board a JetBlue flight out of Newark, New Jersey, were evacuated after a person used the AirDrop feature on the Apple phone to send an image of a suicide vest to multiple iOS devices on the plane, according to the Daily News.
by Paul Ducklin Remember GandCrab? It was a well-known strain of ransomware that was sold as a ‘service’ on the cyberunderground. The idea of CaaS, or crimeware-as-a-service, is borrowed from the outsourcing and cloud computing models that regular businesses use. These days, for example, if you want to publish your own videos, you don’t have
USB drives seem harmless enough and they’re a convenient way to store, back up, or transfer files from your computer. So If you spot a USB drive sitting on the ground or in your office, should you assume someone lost their files? Or is it a hacker baiting you into compromising your computer and network?
A researcher found that it was possible to subvert the platform’s password recovery mechanism and take control of user accounts An independent researcher has found a security loophole in Instagram’s mobile password recovery flow that could have allowed attackers to break into user accounts. The flaw, discovered and reported by India-based researcher Laxman Muthiyah, has since
The same security vulnerabilities that were recently reported in Zoom for macOS also affect two other popular video conferencing software that under the hood, are just a rebranded version of Zoom video conferencing software. Security researchers confirmed The Hacker News that RingCentral, used by over 350,000 businesses, and Zhumu, a Chinese version of Zoom, also
The Consumer Technology Association, the organization behind the annual Consumer Electronics Show, is slowly getting up to speed with the modern-day. Today, CTA announced it will allow sex tech startups to participate and compete for awards as part of the health and wellness category on a one-year trial basis. This comes after the CTA royally
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