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The Wall Street Journal wrote on Thursday that MGM Resorts International didn’t pay the ransomware attackers who broke into its systems last month, forcing the company to shut down systems at several of its hotels and casinos. The hack kept many waiting to check into their rooms, including FTC chair Lina Kahn, who was in
I’m currently studying security, and decided to focus my efforts on the psychology of cybersecurity.I realise hacking is just one aspect of that, but I was curious, what motivates hackers to hack things?
A ransomware group is claiming responsibility for a hack on Reddit’s systems earlier this year — and demanding not just money but policy changes. BlackCat, a ransomware group, says it was behind the February phishing attack on Reddit, as previously reported by Bleeping Computer. In a post shared by researcher Dominic Alvieri, BlackCat claims to
LASER-FOCUSED — Shuckworm’s relentless attacks seek intel for use in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Dan Goodin – Jun 15, 2023 10:30 am UTC Getty Images Hackers working for Russia’s Federal Security Service have mounted multiple cyberattacks that used USB-based malware to steal large amounts of data from Ukrainian targets for use in its ongoing invasion
After extending a deadline for weeks in an attempt to extract a ransom, hackers have posted a trove of data seized late last year from the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles. A notice posted on the dark web site LockBit late Thursday said all available data had been uploaded.It was not immediately
The Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0 specification is affected by two buffer overflow vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to access or overwrite sensitive data, such as cryptographic keys. TPM is a hardware-based technology that provides operating systems with tamper-resistant secure cryptographic functions. It can be used to store cryptographic keys, passwords, and other critical data
SheetKeys – The Hacker’s Spreadsheet SheetKeys is a browser extension which adds powerful keyboard shortcuts to Google Sheets, in the spirit of the Vim text editor. It’s written by one of the authors of Vimium. Watch the demo video here. If you are a project manager, programmer, finance person, or just someone who uses spreadsheets
Virtualization technology giant Citrix on Tuesday scrambled out an emergency patch to cover a zero-day flaw in its networking product line and warned that a Chinese hacking group has already been caught exploiting the vulnerability. Citrix sounded the alarm via a critical-severity bulletin documenting CVE-2022-27518, a pre-auth remote code execution bug affecting the Citrix ADC…
Pornography was aired in public for up to three minutes after hackers cracked a large electronic roadside billboard along one of Brisbane’s busiest roads.The billboard company provided police with images of people who “may be able to help with their inquiries” after the cyberattack on Sunday.The goa billboard on Milton Road in Milton, Brisbane, was…