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Thread Hijacking: Phishes That Prey on Your Curiosity

Krebs on Security

2023, the Pennsylvania news outlet LancasterOnline.com published a story about Adam Kidan , a wealthy businessman with a criminal past who is a major donor to Republican causes and candidates, including Rep. Lloyd Smucker (R-Pa). The LancasterOnline story about Adam Kidan. “We were just perplexed,” Murse said.

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Happy 12th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity.com!

Krebs on Security

We also now have nearly 50,000 subscribers to our email newsletter , which is still just a text-based (non-HTML) email that goes out each time a new story is published here (~2-3 times a week). ” When the two newsrooms finally merged in 2009, my position was eliminated. Thanks again, Dear Readers. See you on the other side!

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A week in security (Nov 8 – Nov 14)

Malwarebytes

Murder-for-hire, money laundering, and more: How organised criminals work online Could Apple’s new MacBooks signal a change in direction on security ? Murder-for-hire, money laundering, and more: How organised criminals work online Could Apple’s new MacBooks signal a change in direction on security ? “ Other cybersecurity news.

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Note to Self: Create Non-Exhaustive List of Competitors

Krebs on Security

What was the best news you heard so far this month? For years I have tried to corrupt more of my journalist colleagues into going it alone, noting that solo blogs and newsletters can not only provide a hefty boost from newsroom income, but they also can produce journalism that is just as timely, relevant and impactful.

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They Made $30 Million Because Hackers Showed Them the Future

SecureWorld News

This is a top-read story from the SecureWorld News archives. When I was a cub reporter at KHQ-TV , those of us in the news business truly were the first to know: breaking news was coming in across the AP wire, and video was coming in from live trucks around the country. We saw things, every day, before the rest of the world did.

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Telling stories securely, with Runa Sandvik: Lock and Code S03E07

Malwarebytes

In 2017, a former NSA contractor named Reality Winner was arrested for allegedly leaking an internal report to the online news outlet The Intercept. The former co-editor of The Intercept said that the way that the story was handled, including the push to have the documents verified by the NSA, was a “deeply embarrassing newsroom failure.” .

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Ransomware brought down services of popular TV search engine TVEyes

Security Affairs

TVEyes is a company that manages a popular platform for monitoring TV and radio news broadcasts, it is used worldwide by PR agencies and newsrooms. On Thursday night, a ransomware attack hit the company network causing an outage of its multimedia messaging and data feed services (i.e. TVEyes Media Monitoring Suite (MMS)).