Tag Archives: cyber security

Biden campaign tells employees to remove TikTok from their phones

Joe Biden’s campaign has ordered his staff to remove TikTok, the Chinese-owned social media application, from their phones due to security and privacy concerns, according to a report. Dan Remus, the supposed general counsel for the Democratic candidate, told employees in an email that they should “refrain from downloading and …

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More than 1,000 Twitter employees had access to hacked accounts

More than 1,000 Twitter employees had access to tools that allowed hackers to gain access to the accounts of Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Elon Musk and others during a massive security breach last week. The attack, which Twitter said over the weekend was possible when the attackers “manipulated a small …

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How to know if you have been hacked and what to do about it

Everyone is vulnerable at the threat of cyber criminals or hackers who gain access to your information, but the threats are not the same for everyone. UNITED KINGDOM WIRING This story originally appeared on WIRED UK. The average person will likely face fewer sophisticated threats than, for example, a high-ranking …

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Twitter hacking targeted 130 accounts, company says

Hackers attacked around 130 Twitter accounts in their unprecedented attack on some of the platform’s most visible users this week, the company revealed. The attackers were only able to take over a “small subset” of the targeted accounts, including those of Apple, Uber, Kanye West and Elon Musk, which used …

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Iranian spies accidentally filmed videos of themselves hacking

The most telling element of the video, says Wikoff, is the speed the hacker demonstrates in filtering account information in real time. Google account data is stolen in about four minutes. The Yahoo account takes less than three minutes. In both cases, of course, a live account populated with tens …

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