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Nearly 216,000 job seekers had their personal data left unsecured on a tech recruiter's database, a security researcher says
A tech recruiting firm left a database unsecured that exposed emails, passport numbers and partial …
Lloyd Lee,Katherine Tangalaki…
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TikTok, Instagram and YouTube data leak exposes data of 235 million users
"The data was spread across several datasets and the most significant being two coming in at j…
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A bored hacktivist browsing an unsecured airline server stumbled upon national security secrets including the FBI's 'no-fly' list. She says what she found reveals a 'perverse outgrowth of the surveillance state.'
Maia arson crimew, the Swiss hacker behind the find, was indicted by the US government in 2021 on c…
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert
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India is scanning people's fingerprints and eyeballs to make a database of every citizen
This is the reality for India's 1.3 billion people, who since 2009 have been asked to comply with a…
Chris Weller
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Trust Stamp, a facial recognition company with a $7.2 million ICE contract, had dozens of peoples' data exposed in breach
Names, addresses, and driver's license data were exposed in the breach, though it doesn't appear to…
Caroline Haskins
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Hidden investors took over Corizon Health, a leading prison healthcare company. Then they deployed the Texas Two-Step.
Corizon Health, facing mounting debt, executed a controversial bankruptcy maneuver. Hundreds of pri…
Nicole Einbinder,Dakin Campbe…
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CSC BHIM site left Aadhaar cards, PAN numbers, and biometric information exposed — could be used to carry out financial fraud and identity theft, says report
Over 7 million records of user transactions on the CSC BHIM website were left unsecured as per a re…
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Attacks on power grids plunged thousands of Americans into darkness, as authorities worry neo-Nazis are targeting critical infrastructure
Power grids from California to North Carolina have come under attack, concerning authorities that e…
Katherine Long,Jack Newsham,N…
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A security expert who discovers data breaches affecting millions in his spare time explains why he does it
Vickery: Not criminal issues. There's civil issues, and there's criminal issues - some people have …
Rob Price
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New IBM research suggests that state and local governments are not getting trained to address the ransomware that is crippling cities and that threatens the 2020 elections
The 2021 budget's summary of those programs says, "in preparation for the upcoming 2020 elections, …
Jeff Elder
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GOP data firm that exposed millions of Americans' personal information is facing its first class-action lawsuit
The class-action lawsuit, filed by James and Linda McAleer of Florida and all others similarly situ…
Natasha Bertrand
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'The mother lode of all leaks': A massive data breach exposed 'information that can be used to steal an election'
The data, according to UpGuard's analysis, "included 1.1 terabytes of entirely unsecured personal i…
Natasha Bertrand
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The US agency plundered by Chinese hackers made one of the dumbest security moves possible
Encryption, however, according to Ars, would not have helped in this case because administrators re…
Natasha Bertrand
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BJP poured money from party funds to financially help a newspaper. Is something fishy?
Also, few prominent BJP leaders were either directors or stakeholders in the company, including Mah…
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These 44 pitch decks helped fintechs disrupting trading, investing, and banking raise millions in funding
Looking for examples of real fintech pitch decks? Check out pitch decks that Qolo, Lance, and other…
Shannen Balogh,Anita Ramaswam…
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Check out the more than 50 pitch decks fintechs used to raise millions in funding from top investors
Here's the pitch decks that fintechs used to raise millions of dollars, from seed rounds to Series …