The Trump administration has rolled out a new questionnaire for U.S. visa applicants worldwide that asks for social media handles for the last five years and biographical information going back 15 years. From a report: The new questions, part of…
Third Gravitational Wave Detected From Black-Hole Merger 3 Billion Light Years Away
sycodon quotes a report from The New York Times (Warning: may be paywalled; alternate source): Astronomers said Thursday that they had felt space-time vibrations known as gravitational waves from the merger of a pair of mammoth black holes resulting in…
WannaCry Development Errors Enable File Recovery
Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have found a number of programming errors in the WannaCry ransomware code that put file recovery within reach of sysadmins.
OneLogin Breach Compromised Customer Data, Ability to Decrypt Encrypted Data
A breach at OneLogin appears to have compromised customer data, including the ability to decrypt encrypted data.
Crowdfunding Effort to Buy ShadowBrokers Exploits Shuts Down
A crowdfunding effort to buy a subscription to the ShadowBrokers’ Monthly Dump Service of stolen exploits and data was shut down citing legal and ethical concerns.
Insecure Backend Databases Blamed for Leaking 43TB of App Data
More than 1,000 mobile apps are leaking personal information via unsecured backend platforms such as MongoDB, MySQL and others.
Kittens, bears or pandas: who’s behind the biggest cyberattacks?
WannaCry is just the latest attack where everyone wants to know who’s behind the outbreak – but how much do we really know about the cybercrooks? And how can we be sure?
Crooks hold nude plastic surgery pictures to ransom after break-in
Patients, including some celebrities, of a plastic surgery clinic, have found themselves on the receiving end of ransom demands
Hackers shelve crowdfunding drive for Shadow Brokers exploits
‘Legal reasons’ cited for decision to drop the plan to crowdfund a security community subscription to a promised monthly dump of exploits
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