A former IT employee at an Iowa school district was sentenced to 21 months in prison for conducting a prolonged cyberattack against the former employer that disrupted classroom operations, deleted ...

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Microsoft has cut off access to dozens of its open source projects hosted on GitHub as it investigates how hackers apparently breached the projects and injected password-stealing malware into the code ...

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Meta has revealed that 20,225 Instagram users had their accounts hijacked in a recent incident where attackers used Meta's AI-powered support system to reset passwords. As BleepingComputer reported ...

The flaw, which Meta said it had fixed, allowed anyone to take over accounts using a bug in the company’s new artificial intelligence software. By Mike Isaac and Eli Tan Mike Isaac covers Silicon ...

Manhattan architect Rex Heuermann, who lived a secret life as the Gilgo Beach serial killer, has been held in a segregated cell since his arrest in July 2023. He has spent his time reading crime ...

More Americans are repairing instead of replacing: Rising prices are fueling interest in Repair Cafés, where volunteers help fix everything from toasters and lamps to clothing and bikes. Many "broken" ...

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Learn essential Nmap commands for network scanning, port discovery, and OS detection. Complete guide with examples and a ...