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Lazarus gang targets engineers with job offers using poisoned emails
Security researchers at AT&T Alien Labs report that a notorious hacking group has been targeting engineers working in the defence industry. In recent months there have been a series of reports of ...

Disconnect your WD My Book Live from the web to avoid data deletion, says Western Digital
Storage drive maker Western Digital is telling owners of its WD My Book Live device to disconnect it from the internet after reports that some have had their data erased by malicious ...
Cryptocurrency hacks wanted – $100,000 prize fund offered in cybercrime forum contest
Cybercriminals are running an online competition offering big prizes to anyone who believes they have found an unusual way to help crooks steal cryptocurrency. As security researchers at Intel471 describe, an underground ...

Podcast Episode 12 – Advocating for Hackers with Chloe Messdaghi
Chloe Messdaghi, VP of Strategy at Point3, advocate and activist joins the show to explain common misconceptions about the hacking community and how we can do better to combat those stigmas. She ...

Tesla Fires Employee for Allegedly Sabotaging Operations at California-Based Factory
Employees at the Tesla car-manufacturing plant in Freemont, California, have been informed by company officials that a former worker “maliciously sabotaged” operations at the factory last month. According to an internal memo ...
YouTube Attacks to Watch Out For in 2019
YouTube, the world’s top provider of streaming multimedia content, keeps reaching new heights in terms of its popularity. Nearly two billion monthly users and five billion videos watched every single day – ...