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American Airlines and Southwest Airlines, two of the largest airlines in the world, disclosed on Friday that their data had been breached. The breach was caused by a hack of Pilot Credentials, a third-party vendor that manages pilot applications and recruitment portals for multiple airlines. The breach affected 5745 pilots …

Joseph James O’Connor, a 24-year-old British citizen, was sentenced to five years in prison in the United States for his role in the July 2020 Twitter hack. O’Connor, who went by the online alias “PlugwalkJoe,” pleaded guilty to criminal schemes that included unauthorized access to Twitter’s backend tools, SIM swapping …

Today, CISA ordered federal agencies to patch recently patched security vulnerabilities exploited as zero-days to deploy Triangulation spyware on iPhones via iMessage zero-click exploits. The warning comes after Kaspersky published a report detailing a Triangulation malware component used in a campaign it tracks as “Operation Triangulation.” Kaspersky says it found …