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ICO levies £1.2 million fine against LastPass — data breach compromised info on 1.6 million users
By Benedict Collins published
After a data breach in 2022, the Information Commissioners Office has finally reached a decision on a £1.2 million fine.

Hackers distribute thousands of phishing attacks through Mimecast's secure-link feature
By Sead Fadilpašić published
A legitimate feature is being abused to hide phishing emails and have them land in inboxes.

16TB of corporate intelligence data exposed in one of the largest lead-generation dataset leaks
By Sead Fadilpašić published
We've just witnessed the mother of all leaks as researchers found an unprotected behemoth database.

Maximum severity React2Shell flaw exploited by North Korean hackers in malware attacks
By Sead Fadilpašić published
Sysdig finds evidence of Contagious Interview actors abusing React2Shell.

Google adds prompt injection defenses to Chrome
By Sead Fadilpašić published
There's an AI that checks what the other AIs are doing and makes sure they're not tricked.

Microsoft issues patches for 56 security flaws - all 'important' severity or above
By Sead Fadilpašić published
Most are privilege escalation flaws, and one was exploited in the wild as a zero-day.
Proton Pass just made it even easier for developers to retrieve secrets — and that's a win for everyone involved
By Benedict Collins published
A command-line interface is just what users wanted, and now Proton Pass have added it.

Fifty US retailers sent nearly 42 billion emails during the Black Friday hype — and they were loaded with sneaky ways to track your habits
By Benedict Collins published
Proton's report into Black Friday and Cyber Monday spam found that retailers are becoming overwhelmingly aggressive in their marketing tactics.
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