Iran foils cyber raids against Central Bank, messaging apps
Iran has thwarted a wave of cyber attacks targeting the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) and two domestic messaging applications.
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Finland Brags It Does Trust Better Than Other Countries
An experiment on trust was conducted by dropping 192 physical wallets in 16 cities. Helsinki, which also boasts that it doesn’t believe in comparing itself to neighbors, seems to be very proud that 11 out of 12 wallets there were returned to the …
Germany Jails Doctor Who Sold COVID Mask Exemptions
The thing that perhaps bothers me the most about this case is the doctor charged so much for doing nothing. A regional court in the southwestern town of Weinheim confirmed Tuesday that the doctor was convicted of “issuing incorrect health certificates”…
Yet Another Tesla Megapack Fire: Charging Station Closed New Year’s Day
Tesla is so prone to failure, you can be sure their “no holiday” culture always will be ruining someone’s holiday somewhere. I’ve written here about a Thanksgiving fire and Christmas fire already. Both were horrible tragedies fo…
Slack’s Private GitHub Code Repositories Stolen Over Holidays
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bleeping Computer: Slack suffered a security incident over the holidays affecting some of its private GitHub code repositories. The immensely popular Salesforce-owned IM app is used by an estimated 18 million us…
CircleCI Warns Customers To Rotate ‘Any and All Secrets’ After Hack
CircleCI, a company whose development products are popular with software engineers, has urged users to rotate their secrets following a breach of the company’s systems. From a report: The San Francisco-headquartered DevOps company said in an advisory p…
How to configure an SMTP server in a self-hosted instance Passbolt
With the self-hosted Passbolt password manager, you must configure an SMTP server to use the collaboration features. Learn how to do it.
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Turla, a Russian Espionage Group, Piggybacked on Other Hackers’ USB Infections
The infamous, FSB-connected Turla group took over other hackers’ servers, exploiting their USB drive malware for targeted espionage.
Security Outlook 2023: Cyber Warfare Expands Threats
After a year that saw massive ransomware attacks and open cyber warfare, the biggest question in cybersecurity for 2023 will likely be how much of those attack techniques get commoditized and weaponized. “In 2022, governments fought wars online, businesses were affected by multiple ransomware gangs, and regular users’ data was constantly on hackers’ radars,” said […]
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How hackers might be exploiting ChatGPT
The popular AI chatbot ChatGPT might be used by threat actors to hack easily hack into target networks. Original post at https://cybernews.com/security/hackers-exploit-chatgpt/ Cybernews research team discovered that the AI-based chatbot ChatGPT – a recently launched platform that caught the online community’s attention – could provide hackers with step-by-step instructions on how to hack websites. Cybernews […]
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