mindea/Shutterstock Proton is a Swiss software developer known for its end-to-end encrypted products. Proton started with an encrypted mail app (Proton Mail) and then released additional software around that experience. The list includes Proton Pass, a password manager; Proton VPN, a VPN service; various productivity apps (Calendar, Drive, and Docs); and Proton Lumo, an AI…
IT services provider Cognizant is facing a multimillion-dollar lawsuit from one of its customers, which claims lax security procedures enabled the Scattered Spider hacking collective – blamed for the attacks on Marks & Spencer and Co-op Group – to access its systems by convincing a Cognizant helpdesk employee to reset a password. The August 2023…
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Proton Proton has made quite a name for itself over the past several years, putting a privacy-first focus on all of its applications, including Proton Mail, Proton VPN, and more. In the past year, the company also launched its first foray into the AI market with Scribe, an AI writing assistant that is embedded directly…
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Microsoft has patched a total of 130 new common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) across its product suite in its monthly Patch Tuesday update, including 10 critically dangerous flaws, many of them in Microsoft Office, while a bunch of third-party issues bring the monthly total to approximately 140. However, despite its wide breadth, Redmond’s latest update…
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A freshly discovered vulnerability in the perennially under-fire Citrix NetScaler Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and NetScaler Gateway appliances, which has been compared to 2023’s Citrix Bleed flaw in its severity, now appears to be coming under attack by undisclosed threat actors, security analysts say. Assigned a critical CVSS score of 9.3, CVE-2025-5777 is, technically speaking,…
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I’ve been a big fan of Proton’s password manager app, Proton Pass, since the Swiss software company launched it a few years ago. Proton Pass has received plenty of updates over those years, turning into a reliable tool for protecting some of your most sensitive data. The app even added credit card support along the…
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Earlier this year, Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), one of the Netherlands’ leading technical universities, demonstrated the uncomfortable truth that even organisations that tick all the cyber security boxes can fall victim to sophisticated attacks, when attackers gained enterprise-level access to its network and began preparing what forensic investigators later concluded would have been a devastating ransomware…
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If you visited adult sites on your Android device via incognito browsing sessions or a VPN while also logged into Facebook and Instagram, Meta might know about it. Not only that, Meta might know what you watched, what you clicked, and what you bought.Regardless of what you were doing on your device, if you did…
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As Russia continues its relentless assaults on Ukraine despite in defiance of continuing efforts to work towards a peace deal, multiple western security agencies have issued a new advisory warning of a Moscow-backed campaign of cyber intrusions targeting logistics and technology organisations in the West. The campaign, run through Unit 26165 of the Main Directorate…
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Marks and Spencer (M&S) has confirmed customer data was stolen during the Easter DragonForce ransomware attack on its server infrastructure, and that it will be prompting all online customers to reset their account passwords as a precautionary move. The attack unfolded three weeks ago and is thought to have been the work of a white-label affiliate…
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