William Black AARON MATE: It’s The Real News. I’m Aaron Mate. The consumer credit reporting giant Equifax is in hot water after one of the … Equifax Data Breach is a 10 out of 10 ScandalRead more
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India’s largest bank leaked account data on millions of customers
India’s largest bank has secured an unprotected server that allowed anyone to access financial information on millions of its customers, like bank balances and recent … India’s largest bank leaked account data on millions of customersRead more
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Detected infections with DarkPulsar, alleged NSA malware
Kaspersky Lab said today that it detected computers infected with DarkPulsar, a malware implant that has been allegedly developed by the US National Security Agency … Detected infections with DarkPulsar, alleged NSA malwareRead more
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Secret messages for Alexa and Co.
A team from Ruhr-Universität Bochum has succeeded in integrating secret commands for the Kaldi speech recognition system – which is believed to be contained in … Secret messages for Alexa and Co.Read more
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British Airways Hacked
British Airways on Friday said it was “deeply sorry” after the online theft of customer data that “compromised” around 380,000 payment cards and vowed to … British Airways HackedRead more
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NetSpectre Attack Could Enable Remote CPU Exploitation
Researchers from Graz University in Austria released new research on July 26 detailing how the Spectre CPU speculative execution vulnerability could be used over a … NetSpectre Attack Could Enable Remote CPU ExploitationRead more
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One year after discovering your data was hacked, Equifax still hasn’t paid a price
A year after Equifax discovered signs of a data breach that exposed 147 million Americans to potential identity theft, the company has yet to be … One year after discovering your data was hacked, Equifax still hasn’t paid a priceRead more
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Data Protection Committee: Govt Repeatedly Refuses RTI Requests
A series of RTI queries seeking to lift the veil of secrecy off the Srikrishna Committee tasked with drafting India’s data protection bill has met … Data Protection Committee: Govt Repeatedly Refuses RTI RequestsRead more
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New Variant of Spectre Security Flaw Discovered
MIT researchers found a new variant of the infamous Spectre security vulnerability, which creates speculative buffer overflows. Spectre1.1 (CVE-2018-3693), the new variant of the first … New Variant of Spectre Security Flaw DiscoveredRead more
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Singapore health database breached, data of 1.5m stolen
A statement from the Ministry of Health said that patients who visited SingHealth’s specialist outpatient clinics and polyclinics between 1 May 2015 and 4 July … Singapore health database breached, data of 1.5m stolenRead more