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Prison visitor details shared with all inmates at correctional facility

The Everglades Correctional Institution (ECI) in Miami-Dade County has leaked the names, email addresses, and telephone numbers of visitors to the facility to every inmate. The inmates received an email last week sent by a staff member that included the personal information of the visitors. Inmates can access their emails through secure tablets or kiosks […]

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VPN use rises following Online Safety Act’s age verification controls

As the UK’s Online Safety Act came into effect on Friday—along with its age verification controls—the use of virtual private network (VPN) services has skyrocketed by up to 20-fold across the region. Top10VPN, which monitors VPN traffic around the world, spotted UK VPN traffic spiking 1,327% on July 25, compared to the daily average over

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Apple patches multiple vulnerabilities in iOS and iPadOS. Update now!

Apple released a security update for iOS and iPadOS to patch multiple vulnerabilities, including one that could leak sensitive information when visiting a malicious website and one that allows an attacker to display false information in the address bar. In total, 29 vulnerabilities were patched, most of them in WebKit, Apple’s web rendering engine that

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Tea Dating Advice app has users’ private messages disclosed

A few days after Tea Dating Advice discovered unauthorized access to one of its systems that leaked 72,000 user images, the popular mobile app faced a second issue involving a separate database, as a researcher reported to 404Media that they were able to access private conversations. Tea Dating Advice, or just Tea for short, aims

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Allianz Life says majority of 1.4 million US customers’ info breached

Insurance company Allianz Life was breached, exposing the data of most of its 1.4 million American customers. According to Allianz, an attacker gained access to a third-party, cloud-based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system through social engineering. The company filed a data breach notification with the Attorney General of the US state of Maine on Friday

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How the FBI got everything it wanted (re-air) (Lock and Code S06E15)

This week on the Lock and Code podcast… For decades, digital rights activists, technologists, and cybersecurity experts have worried about what would happen if the US government secretly broke into people’s encrypted communications. The weird thing, though, is that, in 2018, it already happened. Sort of. US intelligence agencies, including the FBI and NSA, have

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Steam games abused to deliver malware once again

A cybercriminal known as EncryptHub (aka Larva-208) has reportedly abused the online game platform Steam to distribute information stealers. EncryptHub managed to sneak malicious files into the Chemia game files hosted on Steam. Chemia is an adventurous survival type of game that puts the player in a world ravaged by a catastrophic natural disaster… which

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Watch out: Instagram users targeted in novel phishing campaign

A phishing campaign targeting Instagram users is doing the rounds. There are plenty of those around, but when we took a look at this particular email, it seemed a bit different to the normal phishing emails that point to scammy websites. The email looked like this, which is very similar to the one Instagram sends

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