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5 Ways Identity-based Attacks Are Breaching Retail

July 8, 2025 Blogmaster

From overprivileged admin roles to long-forgotten vendor tokens, these attackers are slipping through the cracks of trust and access. Here’s how five retail breaches unfolded, and what they reveal about……

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Researchers Uncover Batavia Windows Spyware Stealing Documents from Russian Firms

July 8, 2025 Blogmaster

Russian organizations have been targeted as part of an ongoing campaign that delivers a previously undocumented Windows spyware called Batavia. The activity, per cybersecurity vendor Kaspersky, has been active since…

Cybersecurity

CISA Adds Four Critical Vulnerabilities to KEV Catalog Due to Active Exploitation

July 8, 2025 Blogmaster

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added four security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation in the wild. The…

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Unless users take action, Android will let Gemini access third-party apps

July 7, 2025 Blogmaster

Starting today, Google is implementing a change that will enable its Gemini AI engine to interact with third-party apps, such as WhatsApp, even when users previously configured their devices to…

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SCOTUS Porn Ruling A Boon For Age Verification Companies; 40% Of Americans Now Live Under Anti-Porn Age-Gating Laws

July 7, 2025 Blogmaster

The conservatives on the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) ruled 6-3 in favor of upholding an age verification measure targeting adult content platforms on the internet that the state legislature of…

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What would a cheap, Apple A18-powered MacBook actually be good at?

July 7, 2025 Blogmaster

Some Apple rumors just don’t go away, hanging around in perpetuity either because they reflect things that Apple is actually testing in its labs or because hope springs eternal. A…

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Ancient skull may have been half human, half Neanderthal child

July 7, 2025 Blogmaster

Back in 1929, archaeologists unearthed several human skeletons (seven adults and three children) while excavating Skuhl Cave just south of Haifa, Israel. Dating back 140,000 years to the end of…

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Samsung and Epic Games call a truce in app store lawsuit

July 7, 2025 Blogmaster

Epic Games, buoyed by the massive success of Fortnite, has spent the last few years throwing elbows in the mobile industry to get its app store on more phones. It…

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ICE Using Repurposed Border Facial Recognition Tech To ID Protesters, Activists, And Migrants On US Streets

July 7, 2025 Blogmaster

The Trump Administration’s constant escalation of its mass deportation programs now means ICE, CBP, and other federal agencies must come up with thousands of arrests a day. This never had…

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“No honor among thieves”: M&S hacking group starts turf war

July 7, 2025 Blogmaster

The ransomware group linked to the recent cyberattacks on UK retailers Marks and Spencer, Harrods, and the Co-Op has begun a turf war with its rivals, triggering a battle within…

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