Tag: Security

Post-heist reports reveal the password for the Louvre’s video surveillance was ‘Louvre,’ and suddenly the dumpster-tier opsec of videogame NPCs seems a lot less absurd

Post-heist reports reveal the…

The air of criminal mystique has been dispelled somewhat in the weeks following the October 18 heist that saw…
LastPass warns of a new phishing campaign involving death certificates and a nefarious email that demands you reply to it if you’re not dead

LastPass warns of a…

If you’ve recently been informed that a death certificate is being used to get into your LastPass account, you…
People are falling for AI phishing attempts 4

People are falling for…

There’s a peculiar tint to the modern digital landscape: everything is somehow both the same as it’s always been,…
New Marvel’s Avengers patch displays your IP address on-screen

New Marvel’s Avengers patch…

Streamers, beware: the latest Marvel’s Avengers patch has triggered a bug that displays your IP address clearly on-screen, potentially…
Fallout Shelter, Pentiment, and other Unity games have been delisted on Steam thanks to Unity’s security vulnerability

Fallout Shelter, Pentiment, and…

A security vulnerability found in the Unity engine, which had laid dormant for almost a decade, was recently patched.…
‘Microsoft has become like an arsonist selling firefighting services to their victims’ says US senator, referring it to the FTC for a cybersecurity flaw, though Microsoft says it has a plan

‘Microsoft has become like…

US senator Ron Wyden has written a letter to the FTC requesting that the organisation investigate Microsoft for what…
Eye scans and digital IDs to stop online bots in games: It’s not quite as Orwellian as you might think but proof-of-human isn’t problem-free

Eye scans and digital…

What a time to be alive: a time where we’re being asked to prove we’re alive and human. We…
A free Chrome VPN with over 100,000 installations has been accused of snapping unauthorised screenshots of websites and spying on its users location data

A free Chrome VPN…

Here’s a useful piece of advice right up top—don’t use a free VPN. Many will have serious caveats, as…
‘One of the most powerful DDoS botnets to ever exist’ has been taken down by the DoJ with help from Amazon Web Services, Google, Cloudflare and others

‘One of the most…

The US Department of Justice has charged 22-year-old Oregon man Ethan Foltz in relation to his alleged involvement in…
Microsoft warns of ‘active attacks’ on its government and business server tech, with one cybersecurity expert claiming that they should ‘assume that you have been compromised’

Microsoft warns of ‘active…

I can’t remember ever liking the sound of the phrase “active attacks”, least of all when it’s concerning software…