France blackout information of Telegram boss’ detention as company the CEO has nothing to hide

France blackout information of Telegram boss’ detention as company the CEO has nothing to hide

Pavel Durov, who has dual French and United Arab Emirates citizenship, was arrested as part of a preliminary police investigation into allegedly allowing a wide range of crimes due to a lack of moderators on Telegram and a lack of cooperation with police, a French police source said.

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Facebook parent company, Meta, reveals of how Iranian hackers targeted Biden, Trump staff

Facebook parent company, Meta, reveals of how Iranian hackers targeted Biden, Trump staff

In July, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines said Iran’s government gave covert support to American protests against Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza. Groups linked to Iran posed as online activists, encouraged campus protests and provided financial support to some protest groups, Haines said.

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Republicans accuse Iran of hacking Trump campaign, but Tehran refutes the allegations

Republicans accuse Iran of hacking Trump campaign, but Tehran refutes the allegations

Iran’s permanent mission to the United Nations in New York said in an email that “the Iranian government neither possesses nor harbours any intent or motive to interfere in the United States presidential election.”

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Cashless outage: How global CrowdStrike meltdown shocked consumers back into using cash to pay bills

Cashless outage: How global CrowdStrike meltdown shocked consumers back into using cash to pay bills

Richard Forno, a cybersecurity lecturer at the University of Maryland, said Friday’s outage demonstrates the vulnerability of our current cloud and internet infrastructure. “Software supply chains have long been a serious cybersecurity concern and potential single point of failure,” Forno says.

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How one bad CrowdStrike update crashed the world’s computers in airports, train systems, banks, hospitals …and more

How one bad CrowdStrike update crashed the world’s computers in airports, train systems, banks, hospitals …and more

The widespread Windows outages have been linked to a software update from cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike. It is believed the issues are not linked to a malicious cyberattack, cybersecurity officials say, but rather stem from a misconfigured/corrupted update that CrowdStrike pushed out to its customers.

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