Cyber-skullduggery is becoming the bane of modern life, with credential stuffing attacks being the most recent form. Australia’s prime minister has called it a “scourge,” and he is correct. In 2022–23, nearly 94,000 cyber crimes were reported in Australia, up 23 percent on the previous year. In the latest high-profile attack, around 15,000 customers of ...
The U.S. Justice Department recently announced that it has charged four Chinese citizens, suspected of working for the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), with stealing the personal data of millions of Americans. The hacking took place in 2017 when the criminals breached the servers of credit reporting agency Equifax and stole private data like the names, social ...
In what is one of the biggest security breaches in American history, the hotel chain Marriott recently revealed that the sensitive information of about 500 million customers was hacked during a 4-year period between 2014 and 2018. Media reports suggest that the Chinese government was behind the Marriott hack, which possibly forms part of a ...
Google admitted recently to keeping a major data breach from the public fearing backlash similar to the Facebook Cambridge Analytica scandal. This is a new headache for the company, which is already battling accusations of sacrificing Internet freedom and building AI (artificial intelligence) for military applications. Google privacy scandal Earlier this year, Google had identified ...
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