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Europol busts up two SIM-swapping hacking rings

What a nightmare: your phone goes dead, and you can’t log into your bank account because it’s controlled by a hacker who’s draining you dry.

What’s the difference between a scheduled security update and one that’s out-of-band? In this case, it’s two days.

Open source bugs have skyrocketed, according to a report from WhiteSource, with XSS flaws account for a quarter of those bugs.

Researchers say the exposure includes exact locations of users’ last posts, nicknames, age, and gender.

A month after shipping version 73 of its Firefox browser, Mozilla has released version 74 with a range of privacy and security enhancements.

Intel’s March security updates reached its customers this week and the dominant theme is the bundle of flaws affecting Graphics drivers.

Necurs, one of the world’s biggest botnets, infected over 9 million computers worldwide.

Microsoft fixed bugs across a range of products on patch Tuesday, issuing patches for 115 distinct CVEs, with 26 rated critical.

Started around 2013, the site claims to host over 24,000 active shops doing brisk business in stolen PII and hacking services.

The US is expected to press for a retrial in the high-stakes trial of Joshua Schulte, suspected of raiding the CIA’s cyber arsenal.