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Kuwait on Wednesday denied reports that the United States had decided to withdraw its troops from the Gulf state, saying the Twitter account of its official news agency had been hacked. The state-run Kuwait News Agency tweeted that the Kuwaiti defence minister had been informed by the commander of US forces in the emirate of their intention to withdraw from the Arifjan base within three days.
Mozilla this week released Firefox 72 to the stable channel with advanced privacy protections that involve the blocking of fingerprinting scripts by default. The release of Firefox 72 this week marked another milestone in the organization's effort toward a more private browsing experience, by expanding the protection to also include browser fingerprinting.
Even though most businesses have enforced stricter password strength policies in recent years, end users and privileged account holders often have too many passwords to remember. Historically, many organizations - and analyst reports - have focused on Privileged Account and Session Management or in simple terms, a password vault, and not true PAM. By applying PASM, privileged root accounts are protected by vaulting their credentials.
Travelex, the British-based foreign currency company, will not suffer any financial impact from a cyber attack on New Year's Eve, its parent group said Wednesday. Travelex, which detected a software virus on December 31 that compromised some services, stopped the virus spreading, it said in a statement.
Give us free instant messaging for our smartphones, and faster than you can say "Viral kitten video," we're collectively part of a mass surveillance nightmare. Or just give in and download the popular - and free - ToTok social messaging app.
We managed to significantly reduce the complexity of collisions attack against SHA-1: on an Nvidia GTX 970, identical-prefix collisions can now be computed with a complexity of 261.2rather than264. We chose the PGP/GnuPG Web of Trust as demonstration of our chosen-prefix collision attack against SHA-1.
BlackBerry this week announced a customizable automotive solution designed to help OEMs improve vehicle health and security. With the new solution at hand, and with assistance from BlackBerry's cybersecurity and automotive embedded systems teams, companies in the transportation sector will have the possibility to create powerful AI and ML software-driven use cases, aiming to improve the safety and security of vehicles, BlackBerry says.
TikTok is a China-made global phenomenon mobile phone app. Now it seems that the Chinese government is not the only potential destination for their content that should worry TikTok users - Check Point found multiple vulnerabilities in the app that could easily be exploited.
Las Vegas officials said Tuesday that that a cyber attack breached the city's computer systems, but it wasn't immediately clear if any sensitive data was compromised. City officials were alerted to the breach around 4:30 a.m., city spokesman David Riggleman told the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Cybersecurity experts believe Iran will likely also respond with cyberattacks to the recent U.S. airstrike that killed senior Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani, and while many doubt that Iran has the capability to cause significant damage if these attacks are aimed at critical infrastructure or industrial control systems, organizations have still been advised to prepare for the possibility of being targeted. Iran has responded to Soleimani's killing by firing ballistic missiles at two Iraqi bases housing U.S. troop, but Tehran could take other actions as well, including in cyberspace.