The makers of Flipper Zero have responded to the Canadian government’s plan to ban the device in the country, arguing that it is wrongfully accused of facilitating car thefts. […]
Category Archives: Bleeping Computer
Users of the social media platform X (Twitter) have often been left puzzled when they click on a post with an external link but arrive at an entirely unexpected website from the one displayed. A Twitter ad spotted below by a security researcher shows forbes.com as its destination but instead takes you to a Telegram account. […]
Three cybersecurity researchers discovered close to 19 million plaintext passwords exposed on the public internet by misconfigured instances of Firebase, a Google platform for hosting databases, cloud computing, and app development. […]
U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan warned governors today that hackers are “striking” critical infrastructure across the country’s water sector. […]
The Cyber Crime Center (DC3) of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) says it has reached the milestone of processing its 50,000th vulnerability report submitted by 5,635 researchers since its inception in November 2016. […]
CISA, the NSA, the FBI, and several other agencies in the U.S. and worldwide warned critical infrastructure leaders to protect their systems against the Chinese Volt Typhoon hacking group. […]
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) warned today that scammers are impersonating its employees to steal thousands of dollars from Americans. […]
The Ukrainian cyber police, in collaboration with investigators from the national police (ГУНП), have arrested three individuals who are accused of hijacking over 100 million emails and Instagram accounts worldwide. […]
Oracle warned Apple customers to delay installing the latest macOS 14.4 Sonoma update because it will break Java on ARM-based Macs. […]
A new destructive malware named AcidPour was spotted in the wild, featuring data-wiper functionality and targeting Linux x86 IoT and networking devices. […]