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Data security software vendor Netwrix has acquired Remediant, an early-stage startup working on technology in the PAM (privileged access management) category.
Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
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As smartphone manufacturers are improving the ear speakers in their devices, it can become easier for malicious actors to leverage a particular side-channel for eavesdropping on a targeted user’s conversations, according to a team of researchers from s… Continue reading EarSpy: Spying on Phone Calls via Ear Speaker Vibrations Captured by Accelerometer
North Korea’s BlueNoroff hackers have updated their arsenal and delivery techniques in a new wave of attacks targeting banks and venture capital firms, cybersecurity firm Kaspersky reports.
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An individual is offering to sell the data of more than 400 million Twitter users, just as Ireland’s data protection watchdog has announced an investigation into the recent data leaks impacting the social media giant.
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Defiant’s Wordfence team warns of a critical-severity vulnerability in the YITH WooCommerce Gift Cards premium WordPress plugin being exploited in attacks.
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Microsoft has silently fixed an important-severity security flaw in its Azure Container Service (ACS) after an external researcher warned that a buggy feature allowed cross-tenant network bypass attacks.
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Facebook parent Meta has agreed to pay $725 million to settle a long-running lawsuit that accused the social network of allowing third parties, including Cambridge Analytica, to access users’ private data.
The amount was disclosed in a court filing lat… Continue reading Facebook Agrees to Pay $725 Million to Settle Privacy Suit
MGM Resorts-owned online sports betting company BetMGM confirmed suffering a data breach the same day hackers offered to sell a database containing the information of 1.5 million BetMGM customers.
In a statement posted on its website on December 21, Be… Continue reading BetMGM Confirms Breach as Hackers Offer to Sell Data of 1.5 Million Customers
Employees of Chinese tech giant ByteDance improperly accessed data from social media platform TikTok to track journalists in a bid to identify the source of leaks to the media, the company admitted Friday.
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Password management firm LastPass says the hackers behind an August data breach stole a massive stash of customer data, including password vault data that could be exposed by brute-forcing or guessing master passwords.
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