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$3.6 billion worth of Bitcoin seized from crooks tied to 2016’s Bitfinex hack
By Waqas The US Department of Justice DoJ has confirmed seizing $3.6 billion worth of Bitcoin in what could be… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: $3.6 billion worth of Bitcoin seized from crooks tied to 2016s Bitfinex hack...
CVE-2021-20877
Cross-site scripting vulnerability in Canon laser printers and small office multifunctional printers LBP162L/LBP162, MF4890dw, MF269dw/MF265dw/MF264dw/MF262dw, MF249dw/MF245dw/MF244dw/MF242dw/MF232w, and MF229dw/MF224dw/MF222dw sold in Japan, imageCLASS MF Series...
North Korea Hacked Him. So He Took Down Its Internet
Disappointed with the lack of US response to the Hermit Kingdom's attacks against US security researchers, one hacker took matters into his own hands...
rancho.college4.us Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-2352411
Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...
Senate Committee passes new antitrust bill aimed at Big Tech companies
The American Innovation and Choice Online Act AICOA, a bill that forbids Big Tech platforms like Apple, Alphabet Google’s parent company, and Amazon from generally behaving in an anti-competitive manner, was approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee late last week with a 16-6 vote. US Senator Am...
How Ransomware Is Changing US Federal Policy
In past decades, attackers breaching systems and stealing sensitive information prompted a wave of regulations focused on consumer privacy and breach notification. The current surge in ransomware attacks is prompting a new wave of action from policymakers. Unlike the more abstract harms threatene...
Data Privacy Day: Know your rights, and the right tools to stay private
Not all data privacy rights are the same. There’s the flimsy, the firm, the enforceable, and the antiquated, and, unfortunately, much of what determines the quality of your own data privacy rights is little more than your home address. Those in Chile, for example, enjoy a globally rare...
Europe’s Move Against Google Analytics Is Just the Beginning
Austria’s data regulator has found that the use of Google Analytics is a breach of GDPR. In the absence of a new EU-US data deal, other countries may follow...
Object Computing micronaut resource management error vulnerability
Object Computing micronaut is a JVM-based full-stack framework from US-based Object Computing, which is primarily used to build modular microservices and serverless applications.A resource management error vulnerability exists in Object Computing Micronaut, which stems from the fact that in the...
US Military Ties Prolific MuddyWater Cyberespionage APT to Iran
U.S. Cyber Command has confirmed that MuddyWater – an advanced persistent threat APT cyberespionage actor aka Mercury, Static Kitten, TEMP.Zagros or Seedworm that’s historically targeted government victims in the Middle East – is an Iranian intelligence outfit. The link has been suspected, and no...
Using Foreign Nationals to Bypass US Surveillance Restrictions
Remember when the US and Australian police surreptitiously owned and operated the encrypted cell phone app ANOM? They arrested 800 people in 2021 based on that operation. New documents received by Motherboard show that over 100 of those phones were shipped to users in the US, far more than...
Google Android Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (CNVD-2022-16345)
Google Android is a Linux-based open-source operating system from the US company Google. Google Android elevation of privilege vulnerability can be exploited by attackers to elevate privileges...
Apple’s Private Relay Roils Telecoms Around the World
Security experts say there's little reason for the criticism from Europe’s mobile operators and US limitations over the VPN-like iCloud tool...
2022 Cybersecurity Predictions: The Experts Clear Off the Crystal Ball
As we walk through the doorway of 2022, it's hard not to wish at least some among us had the gift of cosmic foresight. Many most? of the questions we thought in 2021 that we'd have answered by this point — chief among them, when will COVID finally leave us alone??? — still seem to elude us. In...
Google Android Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (CNVD-2022-06157)
Google Android is a Linux-based open-source operating system from the US company Google. Google Android 11 has a security vulnerability that could be exploited by attackers to cause a local privilege escalation...
Software flaws in walk-through metal detectors made them hackable
By Waqas Walk-through metal detectors manufactured by well-known U.S.-based firm Garett are vulnerable to remote attacks. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Software flaws in walk-through metal detectors made them hackable...
Stolen Bitcoins Returned
The US has returned $154 million in bitcoins stolen by a Sony employee. However, on December 1, following an investigation in collaboration with Japanese law enforcement authorities, the FBI seized the 3879.16242937 BTC in Ishiis wallet after obtaining the private key, which made it possible to...
Avast found backdoor in US Federal Agency Network
By Waqas Avast stated that it tried to notify the agency about the intrusion but didn't receive any favorable response. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Avast found backdoor in US Federal Agency Network...