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Elon Musk, the chief executive of the US electric carmaker Tesla, says his firm would be "shut down" if its vehicles were used for spying on China. His comments came in response to reports that China's military had banned Tesla…

Researchers are reporting mass scanning for – and in-the-wild exploitation of – a critical-severity flaw in the F5 BIG-IP and BIG-IQ enterprise networking infrastructure. Attackers are exploiting a recently-patched, critical…

Attackers move on new CEOs, using transition confusion to harvest Microsoft credentials. A new phishing scam is on the rise, targeting executives in the insurance and financial services industries to harvest their Microsoft 365…

In a new campaign, threat actors are bundling macOS malware in trojanized Apple Xcode developer projects. Cybercriminals are targeting Apple developers with a trojanized Xcode project, which once launched installs a backdoor that has…

Google is failing to do enough to combat fake reviews within its business listings, and must be held to account by a UK watchdog, according to Which? The consumer group set up a fake company and bought bogus five-star reviews…

Hackers earned a record $40m (£28m) in 2020 for reporting software flaws via a leading bug bounty reporting service. HackerOne said nine hackers made more than $1m each after it flagged their findings to affected…

Zoom founder Eric Yuan has transferred about 18 million of his shares worth more than $6bn (£4.4bn), according to a regulatory filing. Mr Yuan, who is also chief executive of the video-conferencing platform, moved roughly 40%…

image copyrightReuters The European Banking Authority's email servers have been compromised in a global Microsoft Exchange cyber-attack. The EU body said personal data may have been accessed from…

Website admins should patch all plugins, WordPress itself and back-end servers as soon as possible. The downloader malware known as Gootloader is poisoning websites globally as part of an extensive drive-by and watering-hole…

Feb 28, 2021 by brian d foy For a week we lost control of the Perl.com domain. Now that the incident has died down, we can explain some of what happened and how we handled it. This incident only affected the domain ownership of Perl.com…

New details have emerged about the remote computer intrusion at a Florida water treatment facility last Friday, highlighting a lack of adequate security measures needed to bulletproof critical infrastructure environments. The…

Multiple unpatched vulnerabilities have been discovered in SHAREit, a popular app with over one billion downloads, that could be abused to leak a user's sensitive data, execute arbitrary code, and possibly lead to remote code…

Congressmembers are calling for Google to take action against climate disinformation. The U.S. House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis wrote a letter addressed to Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, requesting the company take action against…

In 2018, a Kenyan politician lost KSh 1,9 million while he was on an official tour out of the country after his SIM card was swapped and used to change his e-banking credentials. Following that, money was siphoned out of his bank account.…

A Chrome extension named “Shitcoin Wallet”, has been caught stealing passwords and private keys from cryptocurrency wallets. The recently launched extension claims to let users manage Ether and Ethereum coins, however it contains malicious…

The U.S. Department of Education is calling on the edtech community to improve information-sharing on threat intelligence, best practices and cybersecurity challenges to help higher education institutions safeguard student data,…

OpenWorld, Oracle's biggest annual conference, is moving to Las Vegas because of skyrocketing prices to host events in San Francisco, CNBC's Ari Levy first reported. OpenWorld, which attracts over 60,000 customers and partners every year,…

Starting today, Microsoft Teams is available for Linux users in public preview, enabling high quality collaboration experiences for the open source community at work and in educational institutions. Users can download the native Linux…

At least 20 web hosting providers have hastily notified customers today, Saturday, December 7, that they plan to shut down on Monday, giving their clients two days to download data from their accounts before servers are shut down and wiped…

A massive database storing tens of millions of SMS text messages, most of which were sent by businesses to potential customers, has been found online. The database is run by TrueDialog, a business SMS provider for businesses and higher…