There's a reason you should use a unique password for every website you use, but most people simply don't. How are you supposed to make and remember dozens of passwords for each site that are completely unique and can't be written down?

What if I told you it doesn't have to be that difficult?

XZ Utils is an inconspicuous program in many Linux distributions that allows you to compress files. However, it seems one maintainer of the open source project had much more malicious plans.

Sources: https://pastebin.com/awZzM7qk

Denial of Service attacks are annoying at best, and can endanger people at worst. Usually you need a lot of manpower to launch one, but a new method was developed recently that requires just one machine.

Sources: https://pastebin.com/NS7RuYSi

Change Healthcare is a major medical clearinghouse, nearly half of all insurance transactions go through them, so when ransomware struck the effect was felt all over the healthcare industry. However it gets stranger, as the group responsible seems to have scammed their affiliates and faked a takedown.

Sources: https://pastebin.com/PRmnEGnL

Tesla is a tech company as much as it is a car company, which can present unique challenges when trying to incorporate security. Even intended features can end up being major vulnerabilities, like the feature to add a car key to a cell phone.

Sources: https://pastebin.com/S7Sb2KCb

VPN gateways are supposed to securely connect you to an environment, however Ivanti gateways are rather exploitable, and their built in integrity checker may give you a false sense of security.

Sources: https://pastebin.com/G7H6f4kL

Lockbit is one of the most notorious ransomware gangs out there, and recently a multinational operation arrested several people involved, stole back extorted cash, and released a decryptor for the ransomware. However, Lockbit isn't quite dead yet.

Sources: https://pastebin.com/Y6rTab6R

Email encryption is important for keeping confidential information safe, as well as communicating over unsecured networks, or in potentially hostile nations. One bug in 2017 was able to break this encryption though, exposing the plaintext content of encrypted emails.

Sources: https://pastebin.com/UZ2r4Pcq

One of the best renowned children's hospitals, Lurie, in Chicago has been experiencing an outage for nearly two weeks, with parents feeling as they've been left in the dark. Recently it was revealed that a "known cyber threat" was responsible.

Sources: https://pastebin.com/1CwAkQ7Q

Data breaches are the worst nightmare of many organizations that collect sensitive data. Europcar was going to be the next company breached, except on closer inspection, none of the data posted was real.

Sources: https://pastebin.com/wDwTunKb