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Moldovan law enforcement authorities have arrested a 45-year-old foreign man suspected of involvement in a series of ransomware attacks targeting Dutch companies in 2021. "He is wanted internationally for committing several cybercrimes (ransomware attacks, blackmail, and money laundering) against companies based in the Netherlands," officials said in a statement Monday. In conjunction with the

'MarbledDust' gang has honed the skills it uses to assist Ankara Turkish spies exploited a zero-day bug in a messaging app to collect info on the Kurdish army in Iraq, according to Microsoft, which says the attacks began more than a year ago.…

Okay uhmmm... I'm getting flashbacks.. why is my calculator open?

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The Bluetooth Special Interest Group has released Bluetooth 6.1, and one of the most important new features is an update to how devices manage privacy and power. The update, called Bluetooth Randomized RPA (resolvable private address) Updates, helps protect users from tracking and reduces battery drain. Better privacy Bluetooth devices often change their address to make it harder for others to track them. In Bluetooth 6.1, the timing of these changes is now randomized. This … More → The post Bluetooth 6.1 released, enhances privacy and power efficiency appeared first on Help Net Security.

New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said a proposal to ban children under the age of 16 from social media will be part of the government’s work program, increasing its chances of becoming law.

Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak: How OpenDNS, Cloudflare, and Google responded to EU court orders to block DNS resolution for pirate sites; OpenDNS left France and Belgium instead of complying  —  Pirate site blocking orders issued against DNS resolvers including OpenDNS, Google, and Cloudflare are stacking up in Europe.

Ever wondered what happens when you insert a bill into a vending machine? [Janne] is back with his latest project: reverse engineering a banknote validator. Curious about how these common …read more

Rapid7 threat hunter told The Reg wrote a PoC. No he's not releasing it RSAC  If Rapid7's Christiaan Beek decided to change careers and become a ransomware criminal, he knows exactly how he'd innovate: CPU ransomware.…

Nicole Kobie / Wired: As the consumer metaverse falters, the World Economic Forum projects the industrial metaverse will reach $100B by 2030, led by platforms like Nvidia Omniverse  —  Forget Mark Zuckerberg's vision of VR meetings; the industrial metaverse bridges digital and physical worlds in a way that's actually useful.

Not content to battle it out in the boardroom, crypto bros, tech executives and start-up founders have embraced an old-fashioned version of masculinity.