Emanuel Maiberg reports: Quittr, an app that promises to help men stop watching pornography, leaked intimate data on hundreds of thousands of its users, including their masturbation habits, and lied about its security issues, 404 Media can now reveal. I first reported about Quittr exposing user data in January, but was unable to name Quittr in…
Email-based attacks aren’t relics of the past. They’re active, sophisticated, and increasingly lucrative for attackers.
An interesting report by Nisos looks at those selling or advertising insider access and those recruiting insiders at firms. From the report: Executive Summary Nisos routinely monitors mainstream and alternative social media platforms, as well as cloud-based messaging applications and dark web forums to identify individuals and networks advertising insider access or recruiting insiders at…
Today’s reminder of the insider threat, from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia: ALEXANDRIA, Va. – A U.S. Department of State (DOS) employee was sentenced today to four years in prison for conspiring to collect and transmit national defense information to individuals he knew to be working for the government of……
Certain motherboard models from vendors like ASRock, ASUSTeK Computer, GIGABYTE, and MSI are affected by a security vulnerability that leaves them susceptible to early-boot direct memory access (DMA) attacks across architectures that implement a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) and input–output memory management unit (IOMMU). UEFI and IOMMU are designed to enforce a security
⚠️ One click is all it takes. An engineer spins up an “experimental” AI Agent to test a workflow. A business unit connects to automate reporting. A cloud platform quietly enables a new agent behind the scenes. Individually, they look harmless. But together, they form an invisible swarm of Shadow AI Agents—operating outside security’s line…
When Cybernews published an article about a 16 billion credentials leak, some of us strongly criticized the article as irresponsible and misleading journalism. Although some people have tried to suggest that the Cybernews article had some value in highlighting infostealers, the article was so riddled with falsehoods and misleading statements that the confusion and misunderstandings…
