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READ MORE "As a result, weve temporarily limited some of your account features. While in this state, you can still browser Twitter, but youre limited to only sending Direct Messages to your followers - no Tweets, Retweets, follows or likes." Affected users were also told to remove the tweet which mentioned Memphsis to begin a 12-hour countdown until their account was restored to full functionality. The glitch hit Twitter on Sunday, with a spokesperson for the social media site telling Business ...

Source: Microsoft, Bleeping Computer Ransomware-wielding attackers have begun to exploit a serious proxy-logon flaw in unpatched versions of Microsoft Exchange running on premises, Microsoft reports. Hackers have exploited the flaw to access vulnerable servers, crypto-lock files and demand a ransom from victims in return for the promise of a decryption tool. News of the attack campaign follows Microsoft on March 2 issuing emergency patches to fix four zero-day flaws in Microsoft Exchange, which...

Despite all the rhetorics, many investors looking to get-rich-quick still fall for scams in the crypto space. According to a recent tweet by Whale Alert, [...]

04 March 2021 Ive investigated hundreds of data breaches over the years (there are 514 of them in Have I Been Pwned as I write this), and for the most part, the situation with Gab is just another day on the internet. But Gab is also different, having grown dramatically in recent months as an alternative to mainstream incumbent platforms such as Twitter and Facebook and drawing a crowd primarily focused on right wing American politics. A couple of days ago, I posted a thread about their alleged ...

Based in Foster City, California, Qualys sells cloud-based IT, security and compliance products and has about 19,000 customers across 130 countries. In a statement released Wednesday evening, the company says it uses FTA solely "to transfer files as part of our customer support system." While customer data was stolen, Qualys says that attackers did not breach its "production environments, codebase or customer data hosted on the Qualys Cloud Platform," and that all of its services remain operati...

(Photo : Photo by Quinn Rooney/Getty Images) The Amazon website is seen on December 5, 2017 in Dandenong, Australia. Amazon has ended months of speculation by launching its local website overnight. The online retail giant has started taking orders and shipping products from its fulfilment centre in Dandenong South, offering massive discounts on millions of items across more than 20 categories including electronics, toys, clothing, beauty and accessories. According to Bleeping Computers latest r...

Cyber criminals are targeting AOL users because they’re an older demographic and may find it too complicated to switch to newer services

A primer on the proliferation of offensive cyber capabilities Issue Brief by Winnona DeSombre, Michele Campobasso, Dr. Luca Allodi, Dr. James Shires, JD Work, Robert Morgus, Patrick Howell O’Neill, and Dr. Trey Herr Executive summary Offensive cyber capabilities run the gamut from sophisticated, long-term disruptions of physical infrastructure to malware used to target human rights journalists. As thes...

Around a month and a half ago we reported about a serious flaw in Windows 10 that could be exploited to corrupt the contents of an NTFS drive. With Microsoft dawdling in its response, it was down to security researchers from OSR to produce a third-party patch.

BOSTON (AP) — Kia Motors America says it’s restoring services crippled by a computer...