07 Nov U.S. unmasks hacker who stole 50,000 bitcoins from Silk Road The U.S. Department of Justice has announced today the conviction of James Zhong, a mysterious hacker who stole 50,000 bitcoins from the ‘Silk Road’ dark net marketplace. […]
07 Nov Microsoft WinGet package manager failing due to CDN issues Microsoft’s WinGet package manager is currently having problems installing or upgrading packages due to the Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) returning a 0-byte database file. […]
07 Nov Maple Leaf Foods suffers outage following weekend cyberattack Maple Leaf Foods confirmed on Sunday that it experienced a cybersecurity incident causing a system outage and disruption of operations. […]
05 Nov Microsoft sued for open-source piracy through GitHub Copilot Programmer and lawyer Matthew Butterick has sued Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI, alleging that GitHub’s Copilot violates the terms of open-source licenses and infringes the rights of code authors. […]
04 Nov FBI: Hacktivist DDoS attacks had minor impact on critical orgs The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said on Friday that distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks coordinated by hacktivist groups have little to no impact. […]
04 Nov ACE seizes 42 soccer and live TV piracy web domains with millions of visitors The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) has shut down 42 websites for the pirated streaming of televised soccer games and live TV, seizing their domains and taking down the illegal streaming services. […]
04 Nov British govt is scanning all Internet devices hosted in UK The United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), the government agency that leads the country’s cyber security mission, is now scanning all Internet-exposed devices hosted in the UK for vulnerabilities. […]
04 Nov Z-Library eBook site domains seized by U.S. Dept of Justice Internet domains for the popular Z-Library online eBook repository were seized early this morning by the U.S. Department of Justice, preventing easy access to the service. […]
04 Nov Robin Banks phishing service returns to steal banking accounts The Robin Banks phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform is back in action with infrastructure hosted by a Russian internet company that offers protection against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. […]
04 Nov Windows 11 22H2 blocked on systems using Xbox Game Bar Capture Microsoft is now blocking the Windows 11 2022 Update from being offered on some systems because of compatibility issues with the Xbox Game Bar Capture feature. […]