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Firefox to ship ‘network partitioning’ as a new anti-tracking defense
Image: Mozilla Firefox 85, scheduled to be released next month, in January 2021, will ship with a feature named Network …
FBI & Interpol disrupt Joker’s Stash, the internet’s largest carding marketplace
Image: ZDNet Officials from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and Interpol have seized a small number of servers used …
Ad-blocker AdGuard deploys world’s first DNS-over-QUIC resolver
Ad-blocker company AdGuard has deployed on Wednesday the world’s first-ever DNS-over-QUIC (DoQ) resolver into a production environment as part of …
FICO launches cryptocurrency trade risk solution for banks
FICO has teamed up with Bitfury Group to create a cryptocurrency risk assessment solution for financial institutions. Announced on Wednesday, …
Academics turn RAM into Wi-Fi cards to steal data from air-gapped systems
Image: Harrison Broadbent Academics from an Israeli university have published new research today detailing a technique to convert a RAM …
SEC filings: SolarWinds says 18,000 customers were impacted by recent hack
Image: SolarWinds, ZDNet IT software provider SolarWinds downplayed a recent security breach in documents filed with the US Securities and …
PgMiner botnet attacks weakly secured PostgreSQL databases
Security researchers have discovered this week a botnet operation that targets PostgreSQL databases to install a cryptocurrency miner. Codenamed by …
Zero-day in WordPress SMTP plugin abused to reset admin account passwords
Hackers are resetting passwords for admin accounts on WordPress sites using a zero-day vulnerability in a popular WordPress plugin installed …
Mastercard, Visa cut card payment ties with Pornhub over child abuse, illegal content allegations
Mastercard and Visa have distanced themselves from Pornhub by revoking card payment services following accusations that the website is hosting …