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A man has been found guilty of cyber-stalking his former girlfriend in an attempt to prevent her husband from being elected to the Nebraska Legislature. Forty-eight-year-old Nebraskan Dennis Sryniawski obtained a sexually explicit photograph of La Vista resident Dianne Parris with her consent...

A misconfigured cloud database exposed over 800 million records linked to WordPress users before its owner was notified, according to Website Planet. Security researcher Jeremiah Fowler explained that the trove was left online with no password protection by US hosting provider DreamHost. The...

Security researchers have warned that at least 30 million Dell computers may be at risk after discovering multiple vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code within the machines’ BIOS. Security vendor Eclypsium said 129 Dell models were affected by the chain of four...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched an ambitious initiative to fix one million vulnerabilities and, as a result, reduce technical debt by over $100 million. The cloud giant’s principal evangelist, Martin Beeby, said its new AWS BugBust would take the idea of a bug bash to a new level. “AWS...

A trade watchdog in the United Kingdom is launching an investigation into what the world's largest e-tailers are doing to combat fake reviews on their platforms. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced earlier today that it has opened a formal probe into Amazon and Google over...

A high-level member of the notorious organized cybercrime group FIN7 is to spend the next seven years in an American prison. Hacker Andrii Kolpakov was an active member of FIN7 from at least April 2016 until his arrest in Lepe, Spain, on June 28, 2018. The 33-year-old Ukrainian national, who...

In the United States, young adults are more than twice as likely as older Americans to cyber-stalk their current or former romantic partners. New research by NortonLifeLock found three in five Gen Z and Millennial American adults who have been in a romantic relationship (60% of those ages 18 to...

Former health secretary Matt Hancock is facing further pressure this week after Labour called for an investigation into his alleged use of personal email to conduct official government business. Hancock was forced to resign after CCTV footage leaked last week showed the married Tory MP in a...

One of the world’s largest cruise ship operators has disclosed a data breach from mid-March, impacting an unspecified number of customers, employees, and crew. Carnival Corporation runs many of the globe’s leading cruise lines, including P&O, Cunard and Carnival Cruise Line. According to a...

Enterprising cyber-criminals have found a way to create convincing phishing emails which abuse Google Docs and Drive functionality to bypass security filters, according to Avanan. Researchers at the email security vendor claimed this is the first time such techniques have been used to piggyback...

Infosecurity Europe has announced that it is postponing the live event due to run at London Olympia in July, following the government’s delay in lifting the final COVID-19 restrictions. Infosecurity Europe will instead deliver a virtual exhibition and conference from 13-15 July 2021, the...

Google has proposed a new framework to mitigate the growing risks posed by attacks on the software supply chain. The Supply Chain Levels for Software Artifacts (SLSA, pronounced “salsa”) is designed to ensure the integrity of software artifacts across the entire supply chain. It’s based on...

The Centennial State has unanimously passed a new data privacy act to safeguard Coloradoans' personal information. On June 8, the state Senate approved the Colorado Privacy Act after a series of revisions were made. The Act is due to take effect on July 1, 2023, and now awaits the signature of...

A councilor from New Jersey has been arrested and charged with waging a campaign of cyber-harassment against a former girlfriend. Detectives from the Cape May County Prosecutor's Office, with the assistance of detectives from the Middle Township Police Department, launched an investigation...

A man from Texas could be facing up to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to plotting to blow up a data center in Virginia. Seth Aaron Pendley, of Wichita Falls, was arrested in April after trying to purchase what he believed to be an explosive device from an undercover FBI employee in...

A gang of Nigerian cyber-criminals has shared a step-by-step guide detailing how to commit unemployment identity fraud in the Lone Star State, according to CBS News. Organized cybercrime group Scattered Canary is already suspected of making millions defrauding the states of Hawaii, Florida...

A public relations agency in the UK has allegedly offered social media influencers money to portray the Covid-19 vaccine created by Pfizer-BioNTech as highly dangerous. Fazze allegedly offered to pay French and German bloggers, influencers and YouTubers to tell their followers that the vaccine...

Most US victims of pandemic-related identity fraud in 2020 still have not had their issues resolved, and a third (33%) claim they didn’t have enough money to buy food or pay for utilities last year as a result, according to a new report. The Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) based its new...

The volume of compromised records globally has increased on average by 224% each year since 2017, according to new findings shared by Imperva. In light of the GDPR’s third anniversary this week, the data security firm crunched statistics on thousands of breaches over the past few years to...

Security researchers have discovered a new Chinese phishing campaign targeting the ethnic minority Uyghur group with emails impersonating the United Nations and others. Check Point and Kaspersky teamed up to lift the lid on the attacks, which spoof not only the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC)...