Therapy Center Hacked, 40,000 Patients Sent Ransom Demands

A psychotherapy center was hacked, losing sensitive healthcare data on more than 40,000 patients.
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Fake News? Trump’s Twitter ‘Twice Hacked’

President’s Twitter account broken into by Dutch hacker—or so the Dutch hacker claims.
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GRU Agents Indicted for Hacking Multiple Targets

The DoJ has charged six Russians, allegedly working for the GRU, with a huge range of computer crimes.
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BleedingTooth: Intel Discloses Early, Angering Linux Lovers

A Google researcher discovered a high-severity vulnerability in the Linux Bluetooth stack.
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Xplora Watches for Kids: Chinese Spyware

Chinese smartwatches for kids: Just one of this decade’s objectively terrible ideas.
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U.S. Army Says it Nuked Trickbot, but Microsoft and Chums Claim Credit

In the dog-days of last week, a shadowy group of secret sources in U.S. Cyber Command whispered to reporters that they’d disrupted a huge, ransomware-spewing botnet.
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Google Gives Cops Your Search Terms – Let the Frog-Boiling Commence

Google stands accused of agreeing to overly-broad search warrants, which might violate the Fourth Amendment.
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MosaicRegressor: ‘Chinese’ UEFI Bootkit Snoops on North Korean Foes

Researchers say they’ve found on the second known example of UEFI malware. They’re calling it MosaicRegressor.
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Troy Hunt Flags Up ‘Sensational’ Sextortion Bug in Grindr

Grindr, the popular dating app, had a ridiculous bug in its password-recovery flow. To make matters worse, Grindr ignored the bug for a week.
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Ransomware Cripples UHS Hospitals Across the Nation

Universal Health Services discovered all their Windows PCs shut down over the weekend. It looks like a widespread Ryuk ransomware infection.
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