The Information Highway

The Information Highway

Lawrence Abrams is the owner and Editor in Chief of BleepingComputer.com. Lawrence’s area of expertise includes Windows, security, malware research, ransomware, and computer forensics. Lawrence Abrams is also a co-author of the Winternals Defragmentation, Recovery, and Administration Field Guide and technical editor for Rootkits for Dummies.

New York Times source code stolen using exposed GitHub token

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 Internal source code and data belonging to The New York Times was leaked on the 4chan message board after being stolen from the company's GitHub repositories in January 2024, The Times confirmed.

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LastPass says 12-hour outage caused by bad Chrome extension update

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LastPass says its almost 12-hour outage yesterday was caused by a bad update to its Google Chrome extension.

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Apple to unveil new 'Passwords' password manager app for iPhones, Macs

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Apple will reportedly unveil a standalone password manager named 'Passwords' as part of iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS 15 during the upcoming Apple Worldwide Developers Conference.

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Ransomware gang targets Windows admins via PuTTy, WinSCP malvertising

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A ransomware operation targets Windows system administrators by taking out Google ads to promote fake download sites for Putty and WinSCP.

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Dell API abused to steal 49 million customer records in data breach

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The threat actor behind the recent Dell data breach revealed they scraped information of 49 million customer records using an partner portal API they accessed as a fake company. 

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