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Facebook suspends tens of thousands of apps in ongoing privacy investigation

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Facebook—the social media company that has been under intense public criticism for not adequately safeguarding the personal information of its 2 billion users—has suspended tens of thousands of apps for a variety of violations, including improperly sharing private data. In a post published on Friday, Facebook VP of Product Partnerships Ime Archibong said the move […]

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Payment card thieves hack Click2Gov bill paying portals in 8 cities

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In 2017 and 2018, hackers compromised systems running the Click2Gov self-service bill-payment portal in dozens of cities across the United States, a feat that compromised 300,000 payment cards and generated nearly $2 million of revenue. Now, Click2Gov systems have been hit by a second wave of attacks that’s dumping tens of thousands of records onto

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AT&T considers getting rid of DirecTV as TV business tanks, WSJ reports

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Enlarge / An AT&T store in Chicago. AT&T is considering whether to “part ways” with DirecTV, just four years after buying the satellite company, the Wall Street Journal reported today. The Journal report doesn’t use the word “sale” to describe what AT&T is considering, but the end result could be AT&T no longer owning DirecTV.

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Millions of Americans’ medical images and data are available on the Internet

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Enlarge / Dislocated cervical vertebrae (traumatic lesion of cervical vertebrae C1-C2). X-ray in profile. (Photo by: BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) BSIP | GettyImages ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Medical images and health data belonging to

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Missiles and drones that hit Saudi oil fields: Made in Iran, but fired by whom?

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Enlarge / Smoke billows from Saudi Aramco’s oil processing plants in Abqaiq and Khurais, Saudi Arabia, after attacks on September 14—attacks that used drones and possibly cruise missiles built in Iran. The US government has stopped short of officially blaming Iran for launching drones and cruise missiles against Saudi Arabian oil production facilities. But Secretary

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Check the scope: Pen-testers nabbed, jailed in Iowa courthouse break-in attempt

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Enlarge / The Dallas County, Iowa courthouse, the site of a penetration test gone spectacularly wrong. Two security contractors were arrested in Adel, Iowa on September 11 as they attempted to gain access to the Dallas County Courthouse. The two are employees of Coalfire—a “cybersecurity advisor” firm based in Westminster, Colorado that frequently does security assessments

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Meet the three North Korean hacking groups funding the country’s weapons programs

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Enlarge / Hacking for their home country, we guess. The Trump administration is sanctioning three North Korean hacking groups widely accused of carrying out attacks that targeted critical infrastructure and stole millions of dollars from banks in cryptocurrency exchanges, in part so the country could finance its weapons and missiles programs. All three of the

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New clues show how Russia’s grid hackers aimed for physical destruction

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Joshua Lott/Bloomberg via Getty Images For nearly three years, the December 2016 cyberattack on the Ukrainian power grid has presented a menacing puzzle. Two days before Christmas that year, Russian hackers planted a unique specimen of malware in the network of Ukraine’s national grid operator, Ukrenergo. Just before midnight, they used it to open every

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Verizon plans 5G Home Internet in every city where it deploys mobile 5G

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Enlarge / A Verizon ad for its 5G Home service. Verizon says it will bring its “5G Home” Internet service to every market where it deploys 5G mobile service. That might not be saying much, given how limited Verizon’s early 5G deployments are. But it would mean that at least some people in each 5G

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Hackers are exploiting a platform-agnostic flaw to track mobile phone locations

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Enlarge / Simjacker attack flow. AdaptiveMobile Security Hackers are actively exploiting a critical weakness found in most mobile phones to surreptitiously track the location of users and possibly carry out other nefarious actions, researchers warned on Thursday. The so-called Simjacker exploits work across a wide range of mobile devices, regardless of the hardware or software

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