"Plane tracker FlightAware admits user passwords, SSNs exposed for years."

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Plane tracker FlightAware admits user passwords, SSNs exposed for years

FlightAware data leak exposes user information

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30by Connor Jones / 22h

Notification omits a number of key details Popular flight-tracking app FlightAware has admitted that it was exposing a bunch of users' data for more than three years.…

National Public Data tells officials 'only' 1.3M people affected by intrusion

National Public Data data breach confirmed

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20by Connor Jones / 1d

Investigators previously said the number was much, much higher The data broker at the center of what may become one of the more significant breaches of the year is telling officials that just 1.3 million people were affected.…

Digital wallets can allow purchases with stolen credit cards

2 TTPs

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by Thomas Claburn / 1d

Researchers find it's possible to downgrade authentication checks, and shabby token refresh policies Digital wallets like Apple Pay, Google Pay, and PayPal can be used to conduct transactions using stolen and cancelled payment cards, according to academic security researchers.…

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Deadbeat dad faked his own death by hacking government databases

Man fakes death to evade child support

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by Simon Sharwood / 5h

Hoped to dodge child support payments, now faces 81 months inside – and a bigger bill than ever A US man has been sentenced to 81 months in jail for faking his own death by hacking government systems and officially marking himself as deceased.…

Chipmaker Microchip reveals cyber attack whacked manufacturing capacity

Microchip Technology reports cyberattack

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by Simon Sharwood / 11h

Defense contractor gets hacked – what's the worst that could happen US semiconductor manufacturing firm Microchip Technology has revealed an "unauthorized party disrupted the Company's use of certain servers and some business operation."…

Aug 19, 2024

Iran named as source of Trump campaign phish, leaks

Trump campaign faces cybersecurity breach

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by Simon Sharwood / 1d

Political stirrer Roger Stone may have been a weak link after personal emails cracked US authorities have named Iran as the likely source of a recent attack on the campaign of the US Republican Party's presidential nominee, Donald Trump.…

OpenAI kills Iranian accounts using ChatGPT to write US election disinfo

IoC > 5 domains

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by Jessica Lyons / 1d

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OpenAI disrupts Iranian misinformation campaign

12 on X and one on Instagram caught in the crackdown OpenAI has banned ChatGPT accounts linked to an Iranian crew suspected of spreading fake news on social media sites about the upcoming US presidential campaign.…

Multiple flaws in Microsoft macOS apps unpatched despite potential risks

7 TTPs

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by Connor Jones / 1d

Windows giant tells Cisco Talos it isn't fixing them Cisco Talos says eight vulnerabilities in Microsoft's macOS apps could be abused by nefarious types to record video and sound from a user's device, access sensitive data, log user input, and escalate privileges.…

Aug 18, 2024

RansomHub-linked EDR-killing malware spotted in the wild

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by Brandon Vigliarolo / 2d

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CVE-2024-28986

Also: Your external-facing NetSuite sites need a review; five popular malware varieties for Q2, and more Infosec in brief Malware that kills endpoint detection and response (EDR) software has been spotted on the scene and, given it's deploying RansomHub, it could soon be prolific.…

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