Hacker contacts Qantas one week after airline’s massive data breach
Australia’s flag carrier says the cyber criminal who stole personal data from about six million customers has now reached out
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When Home Solar Becomes a Hacker’s Backdoor: The Rising Cyber-Risk to National Power Grids
Domestic rooftop solar has blossomed into one of the great success stories of the clean-energy transition. Yet the very technology
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Cloudflare Thwarts Record 7.3 Tbps DDoS Assault But Bigger Attacks Are Looming
Cloudflare says it has neutralised the largest distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack ever recorded, a 7.3 terabit-per-second (Tbps) tsunami that briefly hurled
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Remote Hack Exposes Full-Control Flaws in 2020 Nissan Leaf
Security researchers have demonstrated a remote-code-execution attack that lets hackers seize complete control of 2020-model Nissan Leaf electric vehicles, turning
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Cloudflare’s Election-Day Heroics Highlight a Deeper Problem, Democracy Now Depends on a Single Private Gatekeeper
In early November 2024, the cyber “October Surprise” that many security analysts feared never arrived. Cloudflare, one of the world’s
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The Password Apocalypse: Inside the 16-Billion-Credential Mega-Leak Shaking the Internet
An Unprecedented Haul What began with the discovery of a database containing 184 million usernames and passwords has escalated into
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Israel Tells Residents to Switch Off Home Cameras as Iranian Hackers Eye Live Feeds
Israel’s National Cyber Directorate (INCD) is urging households to switch off or lock down their internet-connected security cameras after detecting
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AWS Achieves 100 Percent MFA for Root Users, Unveils New Cloud-Security Tools at re:Inforce
Amazon Web Services announced that every root account on its platform is now protected by multi-factor authentication, the first time
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End-to-End Encryption Isn’t the Bulletproof Vest We Want It to Be
Iran’s call for citizens to delete WhatsApp feels suspiciously convenient: a handy pretext to throttle an app Tehran struggles to
Read MoreAirport Wi-Fi: The Costly Convenience Putting Travellers at Risk
Waiting for a flight can feel endless, and the airport’s “free Wi-Fi” banner is hard to resist. Cyber-security researchers say
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