Should’ve listened to Edison: After the arrest of Pavel Durov—the Telegram CEO—comes news of domestic extremists using the chat app to organize.

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Oink, oink, FAIL—you’re in jail: Kansas bank chief exec Shan Hanes stole money from investors, a church and others to buy cryptocurrency to feed a scam.

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Attacks today can be executed through a myriad of communication channels, including emails, social media and mobile applications.  

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McAfee today added a tool to detect deep fakes to its portfolio that will initially be made available on PCs from Lenovo that are optimized to run artificial intelligence (AI) applications.

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KP♡TX PII: “General Motors has engaged in egregious business practices that violated Texans’ pri­vacy … in unthinkable ways,” rants state attorney general Ken Paxton (pictured).

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See These CVEs: Patch Tuesday—ten zero-days, seven Critical vulns, zero time to waste.

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North Korean army of remote IT workers enabled by Matthew Isaac Knoot, alleges DoJ.

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The best way to defend against vishing attacks is by educating ourselves on how threat actors operate, and to become familiar with the tools, techniques and procedures used to carry out these attacks.

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For You Plague: U.S. Justice Dept. and Federal Trade Commission file lawsuit, alleging TikTok broke the COPPA law, plus a previous injunction.

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Pragmatic politics: Anger as Putin gets back two notorious cybercriminals

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