A stealthy breach, stolen source code, and urgent warnings from US cybersecurity officials — here’s what we know about the F5 intrusion and why it matters Image by Peter Conrad on Unsplash If you’ve never heard of F5, that’s kind of the problem. F5 isn’t a consumer brand. It’s infrastructure — the digital plumbing behind […]
Photo by Markus Winkler on Unsplash When we talk about cybersecurity, most of us are thinking about viruses, hacking, maybe password leaks. But there’s another looming threat creeping quietly through the background: quantum computers. Yep, those ultra-powerful, not-yet-widely-available machines that could, one day, crack the encryption we trust to keep our digital lives private. That
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Photo by Mark Aliiev on Unsplash Think your Android phone is safe just because you’ve got 2FA? Not so fast. A newly discovered vulnerability affecting Android devices can secretly steal sensitive data—like two-factor authentication (2FA) codes, private messages, even your location timeline—without needing any special permissions. And it can pull this off faster than your
Photo by Samsung Memory on Unsplash Imagine logging into your bank account on payday only to find… nothing. Your paycheck didn’t land. It wasn’t a delayed transfer. It was stolen. And you never saw it coming. Microsoft is warning about a phishing threat that’s quietly rerouting employee paychecks—and it’s already made its way into at
Image by thisGUYshoots on Unsplash Ever handed over a photo of your government ID just to use a website? If you’ve done that with Discord, you might want to check your inbox. Discord just confirmed that roughly 70,000 users had their government-issued ID images exposed in a recent data breach. The breach wasn’t directly within
Image by Compare Fibre on Unsplash When a cybercrime group shows up with nearly a billion stolen records and demands a ransom, you might expect a big tech company to quietly settle. Not this time. Salesforce is taking a stand—and it’s making headlines. What Happened? A threat group calling itself “Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters” claims to
Photo by Growtika on Unsplash Cloud apps like Signal, WhatsApp, and even blockchain systems trust something called a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) to keep sensitive data safe. But this week, researchers cracked open those defenses — using tools you could buy for less than $50. Let’s talk about what’s at stake, how these attacks work,
Photo by wei on Unsplash What do traffic lights, power meters, and phishing texts have in common? If you’ve gotten one of those shady SMS messages lately — you know, the kind telling you to “verify your identity” or “log into your government account” — there’s a good chance it came from a beat-up, forgotten
Image by Lianhao Qu on Unsplash U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is pitching a bold new plan that feels like it came straight out of a dystopian novel—except it’s real, and it’s happening soon. ICE is looking to build a round-the-clock social media surveillance team. According to federal documents, they want to hire nearly
Photo by Mathew Schwartz on Unsplash When your country is home to tech giants like Samsung, LG, and Hyundai, and your internet is among the fastest on the planet, you’d expect digital defenses to be rock solid. Turns out, not quite. In South Korea, the tech success story has taken a sharp twist this year.
