#Colonial Pipeline paid hackers M ransom last week: report

#Colonial Pipeline paid hackers $5M ransom last week: report

“#Colonial Pipeline paid hackers $5M ransom last week: report” Colonial Pipeline forked over nearly $5 million last week to the Eastern European criminal group that hacked the company, shuttering the largest oil pipeline in the US, spurring widespread gas shortages and panic buying across the Southeast. Bloomberg News reported that Colonial coughed up the ransom…

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# DeFi aggregator raided by five hackers on launch day

# DeFi aggregator raided by five hackers on launch day

“# DeFi aggregator raided by five hackers on launch day ” Fledgling decentralized finance protocol ForceDAO has had a rough start, with several incursions from hackers taking place just hours after it launched. The Ethereum-based yield aggregator had only just launched its airdrop campaign on April 3 when four malicious “black-hat” hackers managed to drain…

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#Mark Zuckerberg’s cellphone number goes online after Facebook hack

#Mark Zuckerberg’s cellphone number goes online after Facebook hack

“#Mark Zuckerberg’s cellphone number goes online after Facebook hack” A massive trove of hacked data from more than 500 million Facebook users was made easily accessible Saturday — including Mark Zuckerberg’s cellphone number, according to one security expert. The information was initially stolen in January, after hackers exploited a vulnerability related to phone numbers associated…

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#Hunter Biden knows it’s his laptop, and wasn’t hacked

#Hunter Biden knows it’s his laptop, and wasn’t hacked

“#Hunter Biden knows it’s his laptop, and wasn’t hacked” “Absolutely,” Hunter Biden tells CBS “Sunday Morning,” after a reporter finally asks him what the media avoided asking him — and his father — during the 2020 campaign: Is the laptop yours? But, being a Biden, he can’t help but prevaricate. “Certainly, there could be a…

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#White House urges action after hack of Microsoft email

#White House urges action after hack of Microsoft email

“#White House urges action after hack of Microsoft email” The White House on Sunday urged computer network operators to take further steps to gauge whether their systems were targeted amid a hack of Microsoft’s Outlook email program, saying a recent software patch still left serious vulnerabilities. “This is an active threat still developing and we…

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#US small businesses reportedly targeted by Chinese hackers using Microsoft email flaw

#US small businesses reportedly targeted by Chinese hackers using Microsoft email flaw

“#US small businesses reportedly targeted by Chinese hackers using Microsoft email flaw” Thousands of small businesses and government offices across the US were compromised due to a back door flaw in Microsoft’s email program, according to reports. Hackers in China have been exploiting several flaws in Microsoft’s Exchange software to break into accounts and read…

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#Amnesty International: Hackers attacking Vietnam dissidents

#Amnesty International: Hackers attacking Vietnam dissidents

“#Amnesty International: Hackers attacking Vietnam dissidents” BANGKOK — Amnesty International says it has found that a hacking group known as Ocean Lotus has been staging more spyware attacks on Vietnamese human rights activists in the latest blow to freedom of speech in the communist-ruled country. The human rights group said Wednesday that Amnesty Tech’s Security…

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