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Stolen data of company that refused REvil ransom payment now on sale

A comment from one buyer of data purportedly from Brooks International: “It even has credit card number & a password. lol !!”

Heads up, Firefox users who rely on FTP: the browser is eliminating support for this venerable protocol.

Trolls have been joining videoconferencing calls to expose meeting participants to disturbing videos.

Online exchange rate data provider Open Exchange Rates has exposed an undisclosed amount of user data via an Amazon database.

Cryptojacking may not be entirely gone following the shutdown of notorious cryptomining service Coinhive – but it’s drastically diminished.

This week the company made amends, issuing fixes for an unusually high CVE-level 41 vulnerabilities, 21 of which are rated critical.

It coincided with a disinformation campaign carried out via SMS, email and social media claiming that national quarantine was imminent.

Slack has fixed a bug that allowed attackers to hijack user accounts by tampering with their HTTP sessions.

The Tor browser has a bug that could allow JavaScript to execute on websites even when users think they’ve disabled it for maximum anonymity.

Good news for website admins: the ability to automatically update plugins and themes is being beta-tested for WordPress 5.5, due in August.