US insurance provider AssuranceAmerica has confirmed a data breach affecting the personal information and driver’s license numbers of 6.9 million people, making it the largest known breach of US driver’s license information this year. Founded in 1998, AssuranceAmerica offers auto and rental insurance to customers in more than a dozen U.S. states. As a large
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The US military has reportedly repaired two of its websites that had been defaced to display pro-Kurdish messages and criticize President Donald Trump, the latest case of hackers compromising federally run systems in recent months. Security researcher Ronald Lovelace told Cyberscoop, which first reported the defacements, that error pages were modified on two US military
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Brothers Patrick and Ryan Coughlin, each with impressive careers in the tech industry (Patrick worked in national cyber defense and at Splunk and Cisco; and Ryan with consumer products at Apple and Spotify), have launched a new type of security startup. Savi Security seeks to protect everyday people from the new generation of incredibly convincing
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Offering a rare glimpse into the priorities of a top spy organization, Canada’s Communications Security Establishment (CSE) said it carried out a handful of state-sanctioned attacks last year to disrupt the operations of drug traffickers, violent extremists and a ransomware gang. The revelations in the Canadian intelligence agency’s annual report highlight some of the major
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Last week, researchers at cloud security firm Sysdig said they had documented the first known case of “agent ransomware.” It was an extortion operation, called JadePuffer, in which an AI agent (not a human) handled the technical execution of a real-world cyberattack from start to finish. The agent broke into a vulnerable server, stole credentials,
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The vote has already been underway when ICE agents arrived at a polling place in Syracuse, New York, during the state’s primary in June. The agents were there to see Paigelynn Gonyea, a poll worker who says they were concerned about an Instagram post she had allegedly made in January “doxing” an ICE agent. The
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