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Thousands of Comcast customers have data stolen from third party debt collectors
Hundreds of thousands of Comcast users had their data stolen in a third-party ransomware attack and data breach on a third-party partner, the company has confirmed. Financial Business and Consumer Solutions (FBCS) fell prey to an attack from an unknown threat actor in February 2024 which saw sensitive data stolen…
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Scale of Verizon outage impact laid bare in Cloudflare report
Cloudflare has released details outlining the scale of the recent Verizon outage which affected millions of telco users across the US. Verizon customers across the country first experienced connectivity issues on September 30, with users reporting their devices were stuck in SOS mode amidst the outage. At the time, data…
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These vulnerabilities in Apache HTTP Server enable HTTP Request Smuggling and SSL Authentication Bypass, posing severe threats to organizations worldwide
Apache’s HTTP Server is a critical component for hosting web applications worldwide. Recently, two significant vulnerabilities CVE-2024-40725 and CVE-2024-40898 have surfaced, raising alarms across industries. These vulnerabilities present a severe risk to organizations that rely on Apache HTTP Server especially the systems using versions 2.4.0 through 2.4.61. There are over…
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Deepfake regulation: A double-edged sword?
Deepfake technology is rapidly emerging as AI’s latest ‘Pandora’s box. No longer limited to producing parodic content of politicians (who’ll ever forget the Pope sporting Moncler?), we are now seeing generative AI being actively weaponized, from misleading political deepfakes, clickbait celebrity advertisements, to school children deep-faking explicit pictures of classmates.…
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This new cloud storage service offers cross-platform integration and enhanced privacy for digital media management
Mylio has announced its new platform for personal, family, or business cloud storage needs. Mylio SecureCloud is available with a base subscription starting at $11.98 per month for 2TB of storage, which the company hopes will make it an accessible option for a wide range of users, from individuals to…
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This AI tool can solve Google’s popular anti-spam defense every time — CAPTCHA system could soon become obsolete
A group of AI researchers at ETH Zurich in Switzerland have developed an advanced tool that can solve Google’s CAPTCHA system with 100% accuracy, raising serious concerns about the future of CAPTCHA-based security. CAPTCHA, an acronym for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart,” has been…
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