The IRS Is holding onto more than $1 billion in unclaimed refunds for tax year 2020, but not for much longer. If you didn’t file taxes in 2021 because you didn’t think you qualified, you forgot or simply didn’t want to deal with the stress of filing, the IRS could be holding onto your tax […]
In 2020, the United States brought charges against four men accused of building a bulletproof hosting empire that once dominated the Russian cybercrime industry and supported multiple organized cybercrime groups. All four pleaded guilty to conspiracy and racketeering charges. But there is a fascinating and untold backstory behind the two Russian men involved, who co-ran […]
There has been a significant decrease in vulnerabilities found in target applications – from 97% in 2020 to 83% in 2022 – an encouraging sign that code reviews, automated testing and continuous integration are helping to reduce common programming errors, according to Synopsys. The report details three years of data (2020 – 2022) derived from […]
In 2004, Gregory Kurtzer created CentOS as a build of Caos Linux. In 2020, Red Hat took over maintaining CentOS and announced the final release of the OS, CentOS 8. CentOS was the free version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and was used by individuals and organizations around the globe. However, Red Hat decided […]
LightSpy, a malware deployed in a 2020 watering hole attack against iOS users, has been found to be embedded with a set of 14 plugins that are responsible for private data exfiltration. Researchers have attributed the malware to the Chinese state-sponsored APT41 group, which previously had used DragonEgg and WyrmSpy spyware to target Android users. […]
Technology company Microsoft has revealed that it suffered a data leak in July 2020 which exposed 38 terabytes of private employee data. News of the leak was made public via a blog post on September 18. In it, Microsoft explained that the leak was caused by a software misconfiguration. The company shared that the misconfiguration […]