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Australian Police Arrest Suspect in Fake Wi-Fi Scam Targeting Airport Passengers
Evil twin Wi-Fi access points mimicked legitimate networks to capture personal data from unsuspecting victims who mistakenly connected to them Read More
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Cyber-Insurance Premiums Decline as Firms Build Resilience
Insurance broker Howden says premiums are falling as security best practice takes hold Read More
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Over Six Million Hit by Ransomware Breach at Infosys McCamish Systems
Outsourcer Infosys McCamish Systems has revealed millions of victims were impacted by a ransomware attack last year Read More
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Friday Squid Blogging: New Squid Species
A new squid species—of the Gonatidae family—was discovered. The video shows her holding a brood of very large eggs. Research paper. Read More
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The Top 10 Online Booking Scam Hotspots in the U.S. Revealed
With a record-breaking number of Americans set to travel over the July 4th holiday, most of them by car, scammers have adjusted their plans accordingly. New research reveals the top 10 U.S. destinations where scammers plant the bulk of their online travel scams. Our McAfee Labs team kicked off this research by analyzing TripAdvisor’s Popular…
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Russian hackers read the emails you sent us, Microsoft warns more customers
More of Microsoft’s clients are being warned that emails they exchanged with the company were accessed by Russian hackers who broke into its systems and spied on staff inboxes. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Read More
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Supply-chain ransomware attack cripples thousands of car dealerships
Car dealerships have been brought to a standstill across the United States after a software provider was hit by a ransomware attack. The attack, believed to be by the BlackSuit ransomware gang, forced CDK Global, makers of a platform widely used by car dealerships to conduct their everyday business, to down its IT systems and…
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Quality Over Quantity: the Counter-Intuitive GenAI Key
It’s been almost two years since OpenAI launched ChatGPT, driving increased mainstream awareness of and access to Generative AI tools. In that time, new tools and solutions seem to be launching daily. There is also a growing trend of building bigger models that consume larger quantities of training data, often with mixed results ranging from…
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TeamViewer Cyber-Attack Attributed to Russian APT Midnight Blizzard
Remote software provider TeamViewer has revealed it has been hit by a cyber-attack that it attributes to Russian state actor Midnight Blizzard Read More
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Cyber Workforce Grows 15% at Large Organizations as Security is Prioritized
From an average of one cybersecurity expert for 1285 employees in 2023, large organizations now have one for every 1086 employees, according to Wavestone Read More