Bite Sized Cyber Crime

How CrowdStrike Broke the Internet

The biggest IT outage across the world just happened. Planes were grounded, hospitals and 911 dispatch centers were down, people couldn't turn their computers on, all on a massive global scale never seen before. So what is CrowdStrike, and how did this happen?
 
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Multiple Data Breaches Linked to Snowflake Cloud Provider

Ticketmaster, AT&T, Neiman Marcus, Advanced Auto Parts. These organizations may not seem like they have anything in common, but they all were customers of Snowflake that had a data breach within the past couple months. With conflicting reports from Snowflake, the victims, the threat actors, and different security firms, who is really at fault here?
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33 Million Authy User Phone Numbers Breached

Authy is an app that allows for multifactor authentication, recently the phone numbers of 33 million Authy customers were leaked due to an unsecured API, which could lead to attacks on those users.
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LockBit Lies About Hacking US Federal Reserve

After Lockbit was taken down in a multinational effort, they appear to still be a major threat after hacking the US Federal Reserve. Or did they? And why lie about such a major attack?
 
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US Govt Bans Kaspersky Antivirus

Geopolitical tensions are a major factor in cyber crime as our lives become more and more online, due to concerns about Kaspersky antivirus being based in Russia, the US government has banned sales of the product, any new business agreements with Kaspersky and US orgs, and has barred them from sending software updates to Kaspersky AV users. But why ban an antivirus product at all?
 
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Creeper and Reaper: The First Virus and Antivirus

Have you ever wondered what the first malware ever was? It was more like an experiment rather than a malicious tool of destruction that malware has become today. Although Creeper didn't do much damage it's interesting to reflect on how far malware has come.
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Microsoft Address Recall AI Security Concern

Microsoft introduced an upcoming AI tool that is able to remember everything you did on your PC and fetch results if you need to go back in time and remember. However with this tool came a mountain of distrust and security concerns. These are the concerns and how Microsoft addressed them.
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Ticketmaster Breach Impacts Half a Billion Users

If you go to concerts or live shows sometimes like I do you've likely used Ticketmaster, as it has a strangehold over the industry. The morning after I saw a concert I woke up, checked Twitter, and saw that Ticketmaster had a massive data breach. This is what happened.
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