Ransomware gangs are a major threat to all organizations big or small, and rarely do we see them lose due to the situations they put people in. Last week, however, a major emerging threat was satisfyingly stomped out by a hacktivist group.

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When developers of curl announced a cycle cut short to fix a high severity vulnerability, administrators panicked. Although still bad, the vulnerability ended up only executable under pretty specific circumstances.

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Ransomware can be handled in two different ways: Paying, or not paying. It's controversial which option is best. Two casinos had a ransomware incident and once paid while the other did not, let's compare.

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What was thought to be a Chrome bug turned out to be a much larger and much more serious vulnerability in a library used to render webp images that could allow code to be remotely executed on target systems.

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Hackers are constantly innovating and trying new things to break into systems, last week a new attacker was discovered that is writing malware in a rarely seen programming language using an even stranger compiler.

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The MGM hack has been all over the news, but how did hackers compromise gambling machines, room keys, and even parking gates? It may have taken just one call.

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You may have heard of a government email compromise suspected to be from China-based threat actors, but this week a series of unfortunate events revealed exactly how this attack unfolded.

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Forever 21 is a popular clothing brand for young adults, but recently it was also a popular target for a hacking group that infiltrated at least twice and stole sensitive data on employees.

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Canva is a graphic design app that makes it easy to make your own logos, including my podcast logo! However, they've also been the topic of a large data breach in 2019. Here's what happened.

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LinkedIn is a professional networking and job hunting website used by professionals in all fields, with verification including corporate email information it's hard to impersonate people in a way that is realistic. That is why hacking existing accounts has become so lucrative, and a huge campaign in going on involving just that.

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