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The rules, which would require WhatsApp to make people’s messages traceable, would violate people’s privacy, the messaging service said.

The federal government should reset its expectations of private companies.

Agrius hackers deployed a set of destructive wiper attacks against Israeli targets, masquerading the activity as ransomware attacks.

Researchers Link CryptoCore Attacks On Cryptocurrency Exchanges to North Korea State-sponsored hackers affiliated with North Korea have been behind a slew of attacks on cryptocurrency exchanges over the past three years, new evidence has revealed. Attributing the attack with "medium-high" likelihood to the Lazarus Group (aka APT38 or Hidden Cobra), researchers from Israeli cybersecurity firm ClearSky said the campaign, dubbed " CryptoCore," targeted crypto exchanges in Israel, Japan, Europe, an...

Read more about Panacea Infosec announces 30-40% salary hike, to raise headcount by 35% on Business Standard. Cybersecurity firm Panacea Infosec has given 30-40 per cent hike in salaries for all employees with effect from April, the company said on Thursday.Currently, the company has around 230 employees and plans to increase headcount in the range of

23 Android Apps Expose Over 100,000,000 Users Personal Data Misconfigurations in multiple Android apps leaked sensitive data of more than 100 million users, potentially making them a lucrative target for malicious actors. "By not following best-practices when configuring and integrating third-party cloud-services into applications, millions of users private data was exposed," Check Point researchers said in an analysis published today and shared with The Hacker News. "In some cases, this type o...

Watering Hole Attack Was Used to Target Florida Water Utilities An investigation undertaken in the aftermath of the Oldsmar water plant hack earlier this year has revealed that an infrastructure contractor in the U.S. state of Florida hosted malicious code on its website in whats known as a watering hole attack. "This malicious code seemingly targeted water utilities, particularly in Florida, and more importantly, was visited by a browser from the city of Oldsmar on the same day of the poisonin...

Most computer security focuses on software, but computer processors are vulnerable to hackers, too. An experimental secure processor changes its underlying structure before hackers can figure it out.

U.S. Pipeline Ransomware Attackers Go Dark After Servers and Bitcoin Are Seized Just as Colonial Pipeline restored all of its systems to operational status in the wake of a crippling ransomware incident a week ago, DarkSide, the cybercrime syndicate behind the attack, claimed it lost control of its infrastructure, citing a law enforcement seizure. All the dark websites operated by the gang, including its DarkSide Leaks blog, ransom collection site, and breach data content delivery network (CDN)...

Why Password Hygiene Needs a Reboot In todays digital world, password security is more important than ever. While biometrics, one-time passwords (OTP), and other emerging forms of authentication are often touted as replacements to the traditional password, today, this concept is more marketing hype than anything else. But just because passwords arent going anywhere anytime soon doesnt mean that organizations dont need to modernize their approach to password hygiene right now. The Compromised C...