Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Chair Mark Warner said the US is even less prepared for this year's presidential election due to increasingly advanced threats such as artificial intelligence-powered misinformation.
Almost 71 million credentials from Facebook, Yahoo, Coinbase, and other sites have been exposed by the Naz.API dataset in the last four months, nearly 25 million of which were not observed in previous leaks, Ars Technica reports.
U.S. web tracking and analytics firm New Relic had its internal environment for hosting customer usage data and other logs impacted in a recent cyberattack, SecurityWeek reports.
More than 40,000 of over 1.8 million administrator credentials compromised by information-stealing malware that have been recovered from January to September were "admin," indicating the prevalence of weak passwords used in administrator portals and the elevated vulnerability of enterprise networks to cyberattacks, reports BleepingComputer.
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