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Back in August 2022, password manager LastPass suffered a massive breach.
A still-unknown cyber criminal successfully targeted one of LastPass' four DevOps engineers who had access to the decryption keys for the cloud storage service. Using the engineer's stolen credentials, the hacker was able to infiltrate LastPass' systems undetected. This breach lasted for months and continued even after LastPass believed the threat had been contained.
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Scams on the Internet are big business. Consumers reportedly lose more than $10 billion annually to them, and every year there is a new wave of scams to bilk people out of their hard-earned money. You may be a victim of such a scam and that’s why you’re here. We’ll do our best to help.
Giving your personal information to a potential scammer is a stressful situation where answers need to come quickly. Minimizing your risk when you are vulnerable requires time and decisive action. Here...
Harald Bluetooth, a 10th century Danish king, knew nothing of the wireless device connection technology that bears his name. But King Bluetooth died fighting a rebellion started by his son, which means both Bluetooths have a common problem: unexpected security issues caused by nefarious connections.
That's not just a cautionary tale for medieval monarchs. It's also smart for us in 2025 to beware of rebellious Bluetooths. Dependent devices (like your favorite Bluetooth headphones) can seem...
Online scams aren’t just becoming more common, they’re changing in approach, and getting harder to spot. These days, there are scams all over the internet, and while some are relatively easy to spot, others are highly sophisticated – and you might not notice them until it’s too late.
That said, a bit of knowledge of online scams and how they work can go a long way. For the vast majority of online scams, there are telltale signs, and spotting them could save you from falling victim....
A call from someone pretending to be an IRS agent is, for most of us, just part of the furniture of modern digital life. We hang up, we block the number, we move on. But for Ashton Bingham, then an aspiring actor in LA, one such call in August 2016 was an opportunity to have some fun.
"I was getting a ton of them, and I just decided to film one as a Facebook video," Bingham says. "The call went on for an hour, and it was absolutely insane. Long story short, it went viral" when the scammer...
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There's allegedly been a significant data breach at Elon Musk's X, formerly known as Twitter.
Over the weekend, the cybersecurity team at SafetyDetectives discovered a post on the prominent hacking message board BreachForums from a poster named ThinkingOne. The post included a 34 GB .CVS file containing more than 201 million entries of data reportedly belonging to X users. This data includes plenty of metadata on each account, plus the email address connected to the account.
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Now that Donald Trump is a few months into his second presidency, Jon Stewart wants to check in on his promise to bring "accountability back," sharing a clip of Trump repeating the classic statement, "The buck stops here."
As you can probably guess, what follows is a series of clips of the president denying knowledge of everything from the now infamous Signal group chat leak to the launch of TRUMP coin.
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Great news for anyone with an internet connection and the ability to yearn: the internet's boyfriends have been cast as members of The Beatles in a series of four films about the fab four.
Brace yourselves: Paul Mescal, Harris Dickinson, Barry Keoghan, and Joseph Quinn will play the four band members in the Sam Mendes-directed quadrilogy.
Normal People and Gladiator II star Paul Mescal will play Paul McCartney and Harris Dickinson of Babygirl and Triangle of Sadness fame will play John...
A Senate hearing on Tuesday could be just the first exercise in needle-threading for Lt. Gen. Dan Caine as he tries to maintain credibility with President Trump while staying true to military norms.
President Trump justifies his plan to shutter the Education Department by saying that states should control schools. He’s using the idea to explain other policies now, too.