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A Review Of BeenVerified Background Check Services 2023

Founded in 2007 in New York by Josh Cohen and Ross Levy, BeenVerified is one of the market leaders in background check services, a growing industry with 10s of million regular users in the United States. As with its competitors, BeenVerified is both a business tool and a social one, with an increasing stress on […]

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Massive cyber espionage operation uncovered in South Asia

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: A vicious series of cyber attacks has targeted social media accounts belonging to individuals across South Asia. In this alarming set of incidents, hackers attempted to leverage fictitious Facebook and Instagram personas in order to execute espionage attempts, deliver malware and/or to steal information. But we’re still at the beginning of this story… […]

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Twitter Confirms a “Security Incident” that Led to Exposing Private Circle Tweets

Twitter recognized a security error regarding Twitter Circles in a statement sent to affected users on 5 May 2023. The company mentioned a “security incident” some weeks after the users noticed the initial problem. The Circle Tweets Twitter users reported a security problem with Circle Tweets since April 2023. Circle was first released in May […]

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A New Ransomware Operation Threatens Your Business: Akira

Researchers spotted a new ransomware operation in March 2023. It is called Akira and targets businesses worldwide, breaching corporate networks, stealing and encrypting data. Threat actors claim to already have sixteen companies in their portfolio of victims from areas like finance, manufacturing, real estate, education, and consultancy. The ransomware demands can reach millions of dollars […]

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How Far Have Facial Recognition Searches Come?

Facial recognition technology is now more than six decades old. In the 1960s, a research team conducted experiments on whether computers could recognize faces. Researchers used a primitive tool to map eyes, hairlines, and noses. The computer’s job was to find matches, but it failed.  Modern-day advances  More recently, developers unveiled what is now known […]

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Ransomware gang hijacks university’s emergency alert system, threatens students

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: On May 1st, a group of cyber criminals hacked into and gained control over a U.S. university’s emergency alert system. Students at Bluefield University received the following unexpected message: “Hello students of Bluefield University! We’re Avoslocker Ransomwar. We hacked the university network to exfiltrate 1.2 TB files…We have admissions data from thousands of […]

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Will the EU’s new cyber security law change the game?

Peter Sandkuijl, a resident of The Netherlands, is a senior security specialist who has operated in the security market for over 25 years. He started his career at a local Check Point distributor, where he served as a technical product manager. In 2000, Check Point started a Benelux office, where Sandkuijl started as the Technical […]

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