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Morgan Stanley discloses data breach that resulted from Accellion FTA hacks
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Morgan Stanley discloses data breach that resulted from Accellion FTA hacks

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Morgan Stanley suffered a data breach that exposed sensitive customer data, and it became the latest known casualty of hackers exploiting a series of now-patched vulnerabilities in Accellion FTA, a widely used third-party file-transfer service. The data obtained included names, addresses dates of birth, social security numbers, and affiliated corporate company...

Microsoft’s emergency patch fails to fix critical “PrintNightmare” vulnerability
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Microsoft’s emergency patch fails to fix critical “PrintNightmare” vulnerability

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) An emergency patch Microsoft issued on Tuesday fails to fully fix a critical security vulnerability in all supported versions of Windows that allows attackers to take control of infected systems and run code of their choice, researchers said. The threat, colloquially known as PrintNightmare, stems from bugs in the Windows print...

Why the password isn’t dead quite yet
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Why the password isn’t dead quite yet

Not exactly a 25-character, randomized string of numbers, letters, cases, and symbols. (credit: Dan Goodin) There are certain sci-fi promises the future is supposed to hold: jetpacks, flying cars, a Mars colony. But there are also some seemingly more attainable goals that somehow also always feel just on the horizon. And one of the most...