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Twitter leak: 200m+ account database now free to download
WEBThu 5 Jan 2023 // 21:30 UTC. Updated More than 200 million Twitter users' information is now available for anyone to download for free. This latest data dump, which includes account names, handles, creation dates, follower counts, and email addresses, turns out to the be same — albeit cleaned up — leak reported last month that affected more ...
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WEBAbout a quarter million Comcast subscribers had their data stolen from debt collector. Cable giant says ransomware involved, FBCS keeps schtum. Cybersecurity Month 24 hrs | 4. Tesla Cybertruck recalled again. This time, a software fix for backup camera glitch.
BOFH Archive - The Register
WEBEpisode 1 Er, I mean, droid. In the far reaches of the world, under a lost and lonely hill, lies the OFFICE OF NEVERMORE. BOFH 22 Jan 2021 | 75. BOFH: Time for the MMOCC. You know, the Massively Moronic Online Christmas Call. Episode 10 This year, starring an utterly, er, empowering personal presence guru.
Microsoft patches CVE-2024-38063 IPv6 RCE vulnerability
WEBAug 14, 2024 · Six ransomware gangs behind over 50% of 2024 attacks. Microsoft listed four vulnerabilities as publicly disclosed, albeit not yet exploited, so maybe put these high on your to-patch list: CVE-2024-38200 – a Microsoft Office Spoofing Vulnerability with a 6.5 CVSS rating. CVE-2024-38199 – a Windows Line Printer Daemon (LPD) Service RCE ...
BT puts old phone books online - The Register
WEBNov 29, 2007 · BT is putting its entire archive of old phone books online for genealogists, or anyone else, to browse, and a commercial genealogy company is opening up access to all UK burial records since 1538. The phone books date back to 1880 and contain 280 million names. They can be used to track down relatives, but you can also use the service to find ...
Google cuts ties with Entrust in Chrome over trust issues
WEBJun 28, 2024 · Google is severing its trust in Entrust after what it describes as a protracted period of failures around compliance and general improvements. Entrust is one of the many certificate authorities (CA) used by Chrome to verify that the websites end users visit are trustworthy. From November 1 in Chrome 127, which recently entered beta, TLS server ...
Microsoft closes off a Windows 11 requirements workaround
WEBMon 19 Aug 2024 // 17:41 UTC. Microsoft has finally patched a workaround exploited by users seeking an upgrade path for Windows 11 that dodged the company's hardware requirements. The tweak arrived without fanfare in the Windows Insider build 27686. There were a few neat tweaks in the build, including updates to the Windows Sandbox Client ...
Deadbeat dad faked his own death by hacking government sites
WEBSimon Sharwood. Wed 21 Aug 2024 // 07:35 UTC. 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. The US Department of Justice on Tuesday detailed the case of Jesse Kipf, 39, who was sent down for computer fraud and aggravated identity theft.
UK tech pioneer Mike Lynch dead at 59 after yacht tragedy
WEBWed 21 Aug 2024 // 19:15 UTC. Obit UK software tycoon Mike Lynch has been found dead two days after he went missing in a sailing tragedy off the coast of Sicily. The news ends a period of speculation since reports emerged describing the British entrepreneur's disappearance after the Bayesian, the billionaire's 56-metre superyacht, went down ...