Automotive marketplace CarGurus was the target of a data breach in which the names, email addresses, phone numbers, and physical addresses of millions of customers were stolen. Have I Been Pwned, a data-breach notification site provided by security researcher Troy Hunt, reported that 12. 5 million CarGurus accounts were compromised …

Peter Williams, a former U. defense contractor boss, was sentenced on Tuesday to seven years in prison for stealing and selling his former company’s hacking and surveillance tools to a Russian firm. Reporters with Bloomberg and Cyberscoop first reported Williams’ sentencing. Williams was the general manager of Trenchant, a division …

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In February 2021, software giant Ivanti discovered that Chinese hackers had breached the network of Pulse Secure, one of its subsidiaries that provided VPN appliances to dozens of companies and government agencies around the world, according to new reporting by Bloomberg. The hackers exploited preexisting vulnerabilities in Pulse Secure’s VPN …

Brian Merchant, writing for Blood in the Machine, reports that people across the United States are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras, amid rising public anger that the license plate readers aid U. immigration authorities and deportations. Flock is the Atlanta-based surveillance startup valued at $7. 5 billion a year …

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Wikipedia editors have decided to remove all links to Archive. today, a web archiving service that they said has been linked to more than 695,000 times across the online encyclopedia. today — which also operates under several other domain names, including archive. ph — is perhaps most widely used to …

federal court has sentenced a Ukrainian man to five years in prison for his part in a long-running identity theft operation that helped overseas North Korean workers gain fraudulent employment at dozens of U. prosecutors brought charges in 2024 against Oleksandr Didenko, 29, a resident of Kyiv, for setting up …

Fewer bad actors are targeting Google Play with malicious apps, the company says, a shift that the tech giant credits with its increased investments in proactive security systems and AI technology. In its latest Android app ecosystem safety report released on Thursday, Google said it prevented 1. 75 million policy-violating …

Last year, the phone hacking tool maker Cellebrite announced it had suspended Serbian police as customers, after human rights researchers alleged local police and intelligence agencies used its tools to hack into the phones of a journalist and an activist, and plant spyware. This was a rare example of Cellebrite …