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North Korean soldiers attend a mass rally to celebrate the North's declaration on November 29 it had achieved full nuclear statehood, on Kim Il-Sung Square in Pyongyang on December 1, 2017. North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Un declared the country had achieved a "historic cause" of becoming a nuclear state, its state media said on November 29, after the country tested an intercontinental ballistic missile earlier in the day.
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North Koreans behind nearly half of US tech industry hacks, says CrowdStrike | TechCrunch

A new report by cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike found North Korean hackers posing as remote IT workers and online...

The Claude Fable logo is displayed on the screen of a smartphone placed on a reflective surface onto which the company's icon is projected.
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Cybersecurity researchers aren’t happy about the guardrails on Anthropic’s Fable | TechCrunch

Anthropic released its latest model Fable on Tuesday, billing it as a public and limited version of its...

ServiceNow logo at Singapore FinTech Festival in November 2023.
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ServiceNow tells customers a bug left some of their data exposed to the internet | TechCrunch

Cloud technology giant ServiceNow has notified some of its enterprise customers that a software bug on its platform...

An illustration of a burned out router or firewall, indicating a breach.
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CISA gives US federal agencies three days to fix a VPN bug under attack by a ransomware gang | TechCrunch

A ransomware group is actively exploiting an unpatched flaw in security tools used across the U.S. federal government,...

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Microsoft’s open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers | TechCrunch

Microsoft has cut off access to dozens of its open source projects hosted on GitHub as it investigates...

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WhatsApp says it caught new spyware attacks linked to NSO Group in violation of court order | TechCrunch

WhatsApp said that it disrupted a new hacking campaign linked to NSO Group, a spyware maker that has...

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Massachusetts votes to pass new privacy rights bill that bans sale of precise location data | TechCrunch

Massachusetts lawmakers have voted to pass privacy protections that grant the state’s residents new rights over accessing and...

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In Brief

OpenAI unveils Lockdown Mode to protect sensitive data from prompt injection attacks | TechCrunch

OpenAI announced a new feature that it says will provide additional protection from prompt injection attacks, where malicious...

Exterior view of the French headquarters of IBM, an American multinational technology company active in computer hardware, software and services.
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Former cyber executive turned whistleblower accuses IBM of covering up several data breaches | TechCrunch

A former IBM cybersecurity executive accused the company of getting hacked three times in the previous decade by...

Fairlife ultra-filtered fat free, whole, and chocolate milk and Coca-Cola bottles arranged in Germantown, New York, US, on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024. Fairlife, which uses a specialized filtering process to boost protein and cut sugar and lactose in its milk products, helped spark the modern protein craze that's unfolded alongside the rise of Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs. Photographer: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg via Getty Images
In Brief

Coca-Cola suspended production at its Fairlife dairy after a ransomware attack | TechCrunch

U.S. beverage maker Coca-Cola said one of its dairy subsidiaries was hacked and that it’s shutting down its...