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Apple Says EU Represents 7% of Global App Store Revenue
Ivan Mehta reports via TechCrunch: Nearly a week after Apple announced big changes to the App Store because of the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) rules, the company said that the market represents 7% of its global App Store revenues. The company’s chief financial officer Luca Maestri said that the monetary impact of these…
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Blackbaud settles with FTC after that IT breach exposed millions of people’s info
Cloud software slinger admits no guilt, promises better basic security hygiene Blackbaud, which had data on millions of people stolen from it by one or more crooks, has promised to shore up its IT defenses in a proposed deal with the FTC.…
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Pig-Butchering Scam Kits Are for Sale in Underground Markets
Cybercriminals are selling ready-made “pig-butchering” scam kits on the dark web to conduct “DeFi savings” cryptocurrency fraud, according to Sophos. The kits expedite scamming worldwide. In these scams, criminals build online relationships then persuade victims to invest in fake crypto schemes, manipulating them to drain digital wallets. The bundled kits contain websites enabling wallet access…
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Cloudflare Hacked By Suspected State-Sponsored Threat Actor
wiredmikey writes: Web security and CDN giant Cloudflare said it was hacked by a threat actor using stolen credentials to access internal systems, code repositories, along with an AWS environment, as well as Atlassian Jira and Confluence. The goal of the attack, Cloudflare says, was to obtain information on the company’s infrastructure, likely to gain…
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Interpol’s latest cybercrime intervention dismantles ransomware, banking malware servers
Efforts part of internationally coordinated operations carried out in recent months Interpol has arrested 31 people following a three-month operation to stamp out various types of cybercrime.…
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Wikileaks source and former CIA worker Joshua Schulte sentenced to 40 years jail
‘Vault 7’ leak detailed cyber-ops including forged digital certs Joshua Schulte, a former CIA employee and software engineer accused of sharing material with WikiLeaks, was sentenced to 40 years in prison by the US Southern District of New York on Thursday.…
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Should You Flush With Toilet Lid Up Or Down? Study Says It Doesn’t Matter
doc1623 shares a report from Ars Technica: Scientists at the University of Arizona decided to investigate whether closing the toilet lid before flushing reduces cross-contamination of bathroom surfaces by airborne bacterial and viral particles via “toilet plumes.” The bad news is that putting a lid on it doesn’t result in any substantial reduction in contamination,…
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FBI Director Warns Chinese Hackers Aim To ‘Wreak Havoc’ On US Critical Infrastructure
“China’s hackers are positioning on American infrastructure in preparation to wreak havoc and cause real-world harm to American citizens and communities, if or when China decides the time has come to strike,” said FBI Director Christopher Wray in a prepared testimony before the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party. NBC News reports: Wray…
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‘Cory Doctorow Has a Plan To Wipe Away the Enshittification of Tech’
In an interview with The Register, author and activist Cory Doctorow offers potential solutions to stop “enshittification,” an age-old phenomenon that has become endemic in the tech industry. It’s when a platform that was once highly regarded and user-friendly gradually deteriorates in quality, becoming less appealing and more monetized over time. Then, it dies. Here’s…
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Ivanti Patches Two Zero-Days Under Attack, But Finds Another
Ivanti warned on Wednesday that hackers are exploiting another previously undisclosed zero-day vulnerability affecting its widely used corporate VPN appliance. From a report: Since early December, ââChinese state-backed hackers have been exploiting Ivanti Connect Secure’s flaws — tracked as CVE-2023-46805 and CVE-2024-21887 — to break into customer networks and steal information. Ivanti is now warning…