Twitter bot activity spiked after the release of the Mueller Report

Russian Twitter bot activity went up by 286 percent shortly after the release of the Mueller Report.
The Weather Channel goes off the air for 90 minutes after ransomware infection

The Weather Channel IT staff dealt with the ransomware infection by restoring impacted computers from backups.
Security researcher MalwareTech pleads guilty

WannaCry hero faces up to ten years in a US prison.

PayPal receives patent for ransomware detection technology

PayPal engineer develops novel approach to detecting and stopping ransomware attacks.
French government releases in-house IM app to replace WhatsApp and Telegram use

French government open-sources in-house-made end-to-end encryption IM app named Tchap.
India expected to surpass the UK for second place in payment card fraud

Prices for stolen Indian payment cards has also gone up by 150% in 2018 to around $17/card.

Google bans logins from embedded browser frameworks to prevent MitM phishing

Google previously banned logins initiated from browsers where JavaScript had been disabled.
Facebook admits to storing plaintext passwords for millions of Instagram users

Last month, Facebook admitted to storing plaintext passwords for hundreds of millions of Facebook accounts.
The security snapshot: 10-year challenge

What do internet trends like the 10-year challenge threaten have to do with security? Your personal data. As consumer technology continues to transform our lives, we must take proactive ...

Excel flaw used in cyberattack

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