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How Hackers Are Cracking Passwords Using Fingertip Heat

Graham CLULEY October 13, 2022 Boffins at the University of Glasgow, in Scotland, have developed a system which they claim demonstrates a new type of cybersecurity threat: a "thermal attack." According to the researchers, the falling price of heat-detecting thermal imaging cameras and …

‘Baby Al Capone’ to pay $22m to SIM-swap crypto-heist victim

Too young to drive, old enough to bribe AT&T staff, apparently Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Sat 15 Oct 2022 // 01:07 UTC A man who lost $24 million in cryptocurrency in an elaborate SIM swapping scam has won a multi-million-dollar judgment against the thief, who was 15 at the time of the …

Racist Push Notification Via Cyber Security Hack

The distribution of messages supposedly from Fast Company magazine marked one of the largest breaches ever of Apple’s content controls By Joseph Menn September 27, 2022 at 10:09 p.m. EDT Hackers breached internal systems at Fast Company magazine Tuesday evening, defacing the company’s …

Bank of America Warns About Scams That Request Zelle Payment

Bank of America recently sent a customer service email warning users to watch out for this new phishing attack. Threat actors are sending realistic texts requesting that you send money using Zelle® as payment due to a "fraud alert." These texts make the warning look legitimate, and if you respond …

Uber’s Cloud Services Breached by Social Engineering

CyberheistNews Vol 12 #38 | September 20th, 2022 It was all over the news, but ZDNet's Eileen Yu was one of the first. -- "Hacker is believed to have breached Uber's entire network in a social engineering attack, which one security vendor says is more extensive than the company's 2016 global …

LastPass Hacked: Portion of Source Code Stolen After Developer Account Breach

The theft of portions of the source code is the second cybersecurity incident LastPass suffered in nine months. The company has confirmed the breach. Sumeet Wadhwani Asst. Editor, Spiceworks Ziff …

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