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Apple Backs Down on Its Controversial Photo-Scanning Plans | WIRED

ProtonMail forced to collect an activist's IP address in police investigation - The Record by Recorded Future

FTC Bans SpyFone and CEO from Surveillance Business and Orders Company to Delete All Secretly Stolen Data | Federal Trade Commission

REvil ransomware group returns following Kaseya attack - The Record by Recorded Future

White House double downs on warning about cyberattacks over the holidays - The Record by Recorded Future

Cyber Command alerts US firms of 'ongoing' hacks targeting Atlassian enterprise software

Confluence enterprise servers targeted with recent vulnerability - The Record by Recorded Future

Jenkins project discloses security breach following Confluence server hack - The Record by Recorded Future

US farm loses $9 million in the aftermath of a ransomware attack - The Record by Recorded Future

Howard University cancels classes after ransomware attack

TrickBot gang member arrested after getting stuck in South Korea due to COVID-19 pandemic - The Record by Recorded Future

Juniper Breach Mystery Starts to Clear With New Details on Hackers and U.S. Role

SolarWinds hackers targeted Autodesk in latest confirmed fallout from cyber-espionage campaign

Malware found preinstalled in classic push-button phones sold in Russia - The Record by Recorded Future

(1) C:\Windows\System32\last.exe on Twitter: "Hey, wanna see a magic trick? That's how you bypass UAC on a machine to which you have GUI access! 1/n" / Twitter

Microsoft warns of new IE zero-day exploited in targeted Office attacks - The Record by Recorded Future

Ghostscript zero-day allows full server compromises - The Record by Recorded Future

Cisco urges users to patch critical vulnerability in virtualized network devices after PoC is made public | The Daily Swig

Billions of devices impacted by new BrakTooth Bluetooth vulnerabilities - The Record by Recorded Future

Node.js archives serious tar handling vulnerabilities with software update | The Daily Swig

Microsoft will split Defender pricing plans to lower the entry bar for SMBs - The Record by Recorded Future

Mozi botnet authors arrested in China - The Record by Recorded Future

Google pauses quantum security feature in Chrome because of buggy middleware - The Record by Recorded Future

Breach notification window, accountability are focus of coming fight on cyber legislation in Congress

The IRS Goes Undercover As A Bitcoin Trader In $180,000 Sting

CREST: NCC Group ‘vicariously responsible’ for those involved in exam controversy | The Daily Swig

Raider: A tool to test authentication in web applications | The Daily Swig

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