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The Shadowserver Foundation reports that a brute force attack has been active since last month, using nearly 2.8 million IP addresses each day attempting to guess the credentials for a wide range of networking devices. A brute force attack occurs when attackers repeatedly try different usernames and passwords to access …

Romance scams involve scammers creating fake profiles on online platforms to deceive people seeking love. They use attractive photos and pretend to have trustworthy jobs, like aid workers or military personnel, to attract victims. Scammers create elaborate lies to gain victims’ trust after meeting on social media, dating sites, or …

Britain’s security officials have ordered that Apple create a so-called ‘back door’ allowing them to retrieve all the content any Apple user worldwide has uploaded to the cloud, The Washington Post reported on Friday citing people familiar with the matter. Rather than break the security promises it made to its …