GPS tracking firm Hapn is exposing the names of thousands of its customers due to a website bug, TechCrunch has learned. A security researcher alerted TechCrunch in late November to customer names and affiliations —…
Thousands of sites running WordPress remain unpatched against a critical security flaw in a widely used plugin that was being actively exploited in attacks that allow for unauthenticated execution of malicious code, security researchers said.…
According to a University of Bristol press release, a team of scientists and engineers have made a significant breakthrough, successfully creating the world’s first carbon-14 diamond battery. Based on the same radioactive isotope used in…
Thai authorities announced last week the arrests of two organized fraud gangs, one of which was accused of driving through the streets of Bangkok while blasting hundreds of thousands of malicious SMS text messages to…
In October, video game giant Activision said it had fixed a bug in its anti-cheat system that affected “a small number of legitimate player accounts,” who were getting banned because of the bug. In reality,…
Last week, Microsoft issued a warning that a network of bots (or botnet) is being actively used to carry out advanced password-spraying attacks against users of Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing service. The worst part? It’s…
Hackers working on behalf of the Chinese government are using a botnet of thousands of routers, cameras, and other Internet-connected devices to perform highly evasive password spray attacks against users of Microsoft’s Azure cloud service,…
Ostensibly a blogging platform, WordPress has quietly become one of the foundational pillars of the modern web, used as the basic format for millions of websites run by single users to massive corporations. But that…
This Reddit comment posted to the CentOS subreddit is typical. An admin noticed that two servers were infected with a cryptocurrency hijacker with the names perfcc and perfctl. The admin wanted help investigating the cause.…
U.S. tech giant Cisco has let go of thousands of employees following its second layoff of 2024. The technology and networking company announced in August that it would reduce its headcount by 7%, or around…