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Hacker selling access to email accounts of hundreds of C-suite execs | Imagine the damage a Geo-Poli-Cyber motivated hacker can do with such info
Access is being sold for $100 to $1500 per account, depending on the company size and exec role. A hacker is currently selling passwords for the email accounts of hundreds of C-level executives at companies across the world. The data is being sold on a closed-access underground forum for Russian-speaking hackers named Exploit.in. The seller …
AWS outage | Thousands of online services impacted | Cause Remains Unknown
Issues reported across 28 AWS products, from Kinesis to Worskpaces, and from DynamoDB to IoT Services. Unfolding story. Amazon Web Services (AWS), a core provider of internet infrastructure services, is going through a major outage today, and the service’s spotty uptime is now causing huge issues at thousands of other online services across the internet. …
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Hackers impersonate Catholic news outlets to gather intel about Vatican diplomacy
After months of public reporting on a suspected Chinese hacking campaign targeting entities linked with diplomacy between the Vatican and Beijing, the hackers are still trying their luck. Researchers at the security firm Recorded Future first called out hackers affiliated with a group called Mustang Panda in July for their efforts to conduct espionage against targets involved …
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Baidu apps in Google Play Store left users vulnerable to tracking
A pair of Baidu applications on the Google Play Store were recently leaking users’ sensitive data that could be used to track users’ location, according to Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 research published Tuesday. Through reverse-engineering, the researchers at Unit 42, the research arm at Palo Alto Networks, found that both the Baidu Search Box …
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Survivability News “Thought Provocation Series” | Who Made the world more ‘Good’, ‘Bad’, or ‘Ugly’? Rate these personalities & Nominate your Candidate
Survivability News is launching its “Thought Provocation Series”. This is where we turn the spotlight on a particular topic or event to raise critically needed awareness by evoking constructive debates and discussions that can lead to real change and hopefully, a better world. Today, we ask you to reflect on these successful people to prompt …