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Hackers have hit major super funds—a cyber expert explains how to stop it from happening again

Several of Australia's biggest superannuation funds have suffered a suspected coordinated cyberattack, with scammers stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars of members' retirement savings.

Security

Oracle warns health customers of patient data breach

Hackers broke into Oracle Corp.'s computer systems and stole patient data in an attempt to extort multiple medical providers in the U.S., according to a person familiar with the matter and a notification the software company ...

Business

23andMe filed for bankruptcy. Here's why you should be worried about your privacy

Over the past decade, 23andMe has collected genetic data from millions of people—and now that the company has filed for bankruptcy, that information could be sold to the highest bidder, a Northeastern University data scientist ...

Internet

One Tech Tip: Don't give your email to strangers, use a decoy address instead

You've heard of burner phones. What about burner email?

Business

Signal app prized by activists central to Houthi chat uproar

The messaging app Signal that Trump administration officials used to discuss an attack on Yemen's Houthi rebels was created by a one-time anarchist to help activists, journalists and others communicate beyond the prying eyes ...

Consumer & Gadgets

Q&A: What happens to your data if 23andMe collapses?

A paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine calls for regulations to protect customers' personal and genetic data in light of biotech company 23andMe's uncertain future.

Security

Balancing various uncertainties in cyber threat intelligence

In 2020, cybersecurity company Mandiant's computer system was compromised by an intruder exploiting an innocuous crack: routine software updates pushed out by another company, SolarWinds. Mandiant was one of nearly 18,000 ...

Security

AI 'reshaping' organized crime, warns Europol

Artificial intelligence is turbocharging organized crime, from creating child sexual abuse images to money laundering via cryptocurrency, Europol warned Tuesday, with advances like quantum computing only poised to make things ...

Consumer & Gadgets

Security is just a side quest: Insights from the video game industry

The video game industry is a constantly changing market worth billions. In a qualitative interview study with industry experts, CISPA researcher Philip Klostermeyer from the team of CISPA Faculty Prof. Dr. Sascha Fahl investigated ...

Computer Sciences

Fake credentials offer novel solution to e-voting challenges

As we come to the end of a year in which half the world's population went to the polls, EPFL researchers developed and field-tested a groundbreaking new technology to protect remote electronic voting or e-voting from voter ...

Security

Can we convince AI to answer harmful requests?

New research from EPFL demonstrates that even the most recent large language models (LLMs), despite undergoing safety training, remain vulnerable to simple input manipulations that can cause them to behave in unintended or ...