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Insurance company AssuranceAmerica exposes 6.9 million drivers following major data breach
By Sead Fadilpašić Published
No one has claimed responsibility for AssuranceAmerica attack yet.

European cloud giant Nextcloud exposes staff and clients in major data breach
By Sead Fadilpašić Published
A misconfigured cloud database spills secrets, but Nextcloud was quick to remedy.

Experts warn of the first documented case of 'agentic ransomware
By Christian Cawley Published
An LLM-based ransomware attack has been detected by researchers, and is notable for losing the data it encrypted...

Baby Boomers beat Gen Z in password hygiene, but both generations still don’t stick to the best practices — and many people are still using decades-old passwords that they made as kids
By Benedict Collins Published
Baby Boomers are the most likely to frequently change passwords, but often rely on unsecure methods of storage.

81 million login attempts hit Microsoft 365 accounts as hackers try password-spraying to force entry
By Benedict Collins Published
The attack abused misconfigured conditional access policies to bypass multi-factor authentication protections.

Apple’s security feature can be duped into supplying the real contact info
By Benedict Collins Published
The bug was reported to Apple over a year ago, but still nothing has been done.

That free VPN Chrome and Firefox extension may be reading your clipboard every half a second, researchers warn
By Monica J. White Published
Researchers at Socket found two "VPN Go" browser extensions for Chrome and Firefox that posed as free VPNs while quietly stealing clipboard data through later updates.

This new tool can let you ask Claude if that 'too good to be true' online offer is actually a scam
By Craig Hale Published
Norton's scam detection will let you ask Claude whether an email or online deal looks suspicious without leaving the AI chatbot.
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