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Mattel accidentally linked a porn site on Wicked doll packaging
Barbie producer Mattel has issued an apology after customers spotted its Wicked edition dolls listed an adult website on the packaging. The toy merchandise mistakenly directed customers to the homepage of the Wicked Pictures pornographic movie studio, instead of the correct WickedMovie.com URL. “We deeply regret this unfortunate error and are taking immediate action to remedy this,” Mattel said in…
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Cisco says DevHub site leak won’t enable future breaches
Cisco says that non-public files recently downloaded by a threat actor from a misconfigured public-facing DevHub portal don’t contain information that could be exploited in future breaches of the company’s systems. While analyzing the exposed documents, the company found that their contents include data that Cisco publishes for customers and other DevHub users. However, files that shouldn’t have been made…
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DDoS site Dstat.cc seized and two suspects arrested in Germany
The Dstat.cc DDoS review platform has been seized by law enforcement, and two suspects have been arrested after the service helped fuel distributed denial-of-service attacks for years. The seizure and arrests were conducted as part of “Operation PowerOFF,” an ongoing international law enforcement operation that targets DDoS-for-hire platforms, aka “booters” or “stressers,” to seize infrastructure and arrest the operators. These platforms…
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UK nuclear site Sellafield fined $440,000 for cybersecurity shortfalls
Image: Sellafield nuclear power station and reprocessing plant (Steve_Allen) Nuclear waste processing facility Sellafield has been fined £332,500 ($440k) by the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) for failing to adhere to cybersecurity standards and putting sensitive nuclear information at risk over four years, from 2019 to 2023. According to the ONR announcement, Sellafield failed to follow its own approved cybersecurity protocols…
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Ransomware gang Brain Cipher adds the Réunion des Musées Nationaux to its data leak site – 300GB of data stolen
This morning, ransomware gang Brain Cipher posted the Réunion des Musées Nationaux (RMN) to its data leak site, alleging to have stolen over 300GB of data. This follows RMN’s systems suffering a crippling attack during the Paris Olympics in early August 2024. Brain Cipher was rumored to be the gang behind the attack at the time. In its initial statement,…
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X’s Grok directs to government site after sharing false election info
X has updated its artificial intelligence chatbot Grok after five secretaries of state warned it was spreading election misinformation. The AI assistant will now say “For accurate and up-to-date information about the 2024 US Elections, please visit Vote.gov,” when users ask election-related questions. The change was introduced after election officials from Minnesota, New Mexico, Michigan, Washington, and Pennsylvania sent a…
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