NordVPN has denied claims that hackers breached its internal Salesforce development servers, saying recently leaked data came from a temporary third-party testing environment and did not include real customer or business information. The clarification follows posts on a cybercrime forum over the weekend by a threat actor using the handle “1011,” claiming to have stolen more than 10 databases from a NordVPN development server. The attacker alleged the data was obtained by brute-forcing a misconfigured system and included sensitive assets such as Salesforce API keys, Jira tokens, and other development-related information....

An anonymous threat actor has allegedly claimed responsibility for a massive data breach affecting OpenAI, offering for sale a database containing the login credentials of 20 million users on the dark web. The unverified claim that surfaced on an underground hacking forum has raised concerns about data security for millions of users relying on OpenAI’s services. The threat actor alleges they have access to a trove of login credentials, including emails and hashed passwords, purportedly sourced from OpenAI’s user accounts....

PayPal Holdings, Inc. on Tuesday announced the launch of a new ‘Checkout with Crypto’ service in the U.S. that will allow consumers to make purchases from millions of global online businesses using cryptocurrency along with other payment methods in the PayPal mobile wallet like a bank account, balance or credit card/debit card. “This is the first time you can seamlessly use cryptocurrencies in the same way as a credit card or a debit card inside your PayPal wallet,” Dan Schulman, CEO and President of PayPal told Reuters ahead of a formal announcement....

Mobdro, one of the most popular pirated Android-based software app focusing on TV content that includes popular TV shows, live sports and documentaries, has disappeared online, reports TorrentFreak . The app’s current and historic domains presently are all non-functional. The latest version of the app, with build number 2.2.8 no longer works because access to the streams has been removed . Over the years, Mobdro has become one of the most popular easy-to-use solutions for anyone looking to access live TV, sports channels and 24/7 content....

Razer, the world’s leading lifestyle brand for gamers, on Wednesday unveiled the world’s first modular gaming desk concept, Project Sophia during the CES 2022. “With working from home more widespread than ever, many people find it a challenge to configure their set-ups for the multiple different uses required of their systems throughout the day. From being a pure office productivity set-up through to a gaming, streaming or editing suite, each use has a host of extra peripherals and devices to enhance and improve that experience,” the company said in a statement....

Razer’s Tomahawk Gaming Desktop that was first showcased at the CES 2020 in January this year will finally be available for pre-order this month. This PC with a modular, 10 litre eGPU-like design is built around designed around Intel’s Next Unit of Computing (NUC) architecture. It is made out of matte black milled aluminium and lined at the bottom with Razer Chroma RGB. It measures only 210mm x 150mm x 365mm....

Riot Games on Friday announced that starting July 13, it will start recording in-game voice chats in its extremely popular free-to-play multiplayer title, VALORANT to combat the widespread disruptive behavior and toxicity in the game. “We want all of our games to be safe and inclusive for everyone who chooses to play them. We know disruptive behavior using our voice chat is a concern for a lot of players, and we’re committed to addressing it more effectively,” Riot Games said in the April 2021 news release....

Just three weeks earlier, Samsung had lifted a ban on employees using OpenAI’s ChatGPT over data privacy concerns. However, ever since the ban has been lifted, there have been three separate instances of Samsung employees accidentally leaking sensitive information related to Samsung’s semiconductor division to ChatGPT in a span of 20 days, states a report from The Economist Korea (as spotted by Mashable ). The ban was originally intended to protect company data but was lifted on March 11, 2023, so that engineers at the semiconductor division could use ChatGPT to fix problems with the source code, improve productivity as well as be aware of the latest technological changes....

Researchers from the University of California San Diego in a new paper have demonstrated how Bluetooth signals can be used to identify and track smartphones. The research team found that Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) signals, which are constantly emitted by mobile devices generate a unique fingerprint. This is then exploited by attackers to track individuals’ movements. Devices such as smartphones, smartwatches, and fitness trackers, constantly transmit signals, known as Bluetooth beacons, at the rate of roughly 500 beacons per minute....

The World’s Thinnest Smartphone ‘Moto Z’ Unveiled At Tech World 2016 along with Moto Z Force At the Lenovo Tech World 2016 in San Francisco, Lenovo-owned Motorola introduced two new smartphones: the Moto Z and the Moto Z Force, both exclusive to Verizon Wireless and both available in the U.S. this summer. These high powered smartphones have added functionality to the table with Moto Mods. The company has announced the Moto Z as the thinnest and most powerful phone ever released....

TikTok, owned by China-based ByteDance, is being sued in California by parents who claimed that their children died while taking part in a deadly “Blackout Challenge” on the popular video-sharing social media platform. At least 7 children under the age of 15 have died around the world while participating in the blackout challenge, in which TikTok users suffocate themselves with belts, purse ties, or other similar items until they pass out due to lack of oxygen...

Here are the top 10 hacking techniques discovered in 2015 Hacking Here are the top 10 hacking techniques discovered in 2015 : #1 FREAK Attack #2 LOGJAM vulnerability #3 Web Timing Attacks #4 Evading All* WAF XSS Filters #5 Abusing CDN’s with SSRF Flash and DNS #6 IllusoryTLS #7 Exploiting XXE in File Parsing Functionality #8 Abusing XLST #9 Magic Hashes #10 Asynchronous Vulnerabilities Here are the top 10 hacking techniques discovered in 2015 Yesterday we brought out the list of top 6 password cracking techniques used by hackers and cyber criminals....

IT software vendor Ivanti recently released details of a now-patched critical security vulnerability affecting Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) VPN appliances, Pulse Connect Secure, Ivanti Policy Secure, and ZTA gateways, which is being actively exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, identified as CVE-2025-22457 (CVSS score of 9.0), is a stack-based buffer overflow that allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to achieve remote code execution on an affected system, potentially leading to full system compromise....

Twitter on Wednesday announced that it has its updated private information and media policy that prohibits the sharing of other people’s live location, as well as links to places sharing that kind of information. The announcement of the new policy comes after a Twitter account run by a college student ‘Jack Sweeney’ that tracked the live location of billionaire and Twitter’s new boss Elon Musk’s private jet was suspended as of Wednesday morning....

Twitter on Tuesday sued SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk in a Delaware Court of Chancery for violating the $44 billion deal to buy the social media platform. Moments after news of Twitter suing Musk surfaced online, Tesla’s CEO took to the microblogging site and just simply tweeted, “Oh the irony lol” without referring to the legal action initiated against him. Oh the irony lol — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 12, 2022...

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday announced that it has seized 63.7 Bitcoins currently valued at approximately $2.3 million that individuals in a criminal hacking group known as ‘DarkSide’ had extorted from Colonial Pipeline in a ransomware attack last month. For those unaware, a gang of hackers using the DarkSide ransomware variant had hacked into the computer system of Georgia-based Colonial Pipeline on May 7th causing days of fuel shortages across the U....

U.S. law enforcement authorities have shut down E-Note, a little-known cryptocurrency exchange accused of laundering over $70 million in illegal proceeds from ransomware attacks and online fraud. The takedown, announced by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan on Wednesday, followed a coordinated international operation involving the FBI, Michigan State Police, and law enforcement agencies in Germany and Finland. Investigators seized E-Note’s servers, mobile applications, and several associated websites, effectively shutting down the service....

U.S. authorities have announced the deportation of two Venezuelan nationals convicted of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from American banks by hacking ATMs with malware. The move brings an end to a multi-state ATM “jackpotting” scheme that used malware to target older model Automated Teller Machines (ATM), forcing them to dispense all available cash. Luz Granados, 34, and Johan Gonzalez-Jimenez, 40, pleaded guilty to conspiracy and computer-related crimes after investigators linked them to a series of ATM break-ins across the southeastern United States that led to the theft of hundreds of thousands of dollars....

Valve on Thursday announced the Steam Deck OLED, an upgraded version of its hugely popular handheld gaming PC, Stem Deck, featuring an HDR OLED screen, longer battery life, and faster downloads. “An OLED screen with larger picture, better battery life, faster WiFi—on top of world-class ergonomics and an intuitive console-like experience,” said the company about the Steam Deck OLED. Specifications And Features Price And Availability Specifications And Features Steam Deck OLED features a 7....

In July 2021, Valve had announced its first handheld PC gaming device, Steam Deck, with the shipping scheduled for December 2021. However, in November 2021, the company revealed that due to global computer chip shortages, the Steam Deck would fail to ship by December 2021 and instead ship in February 2022. Now, Valve on Wednesday has officially confirmed that the Steam Deck will launch on February 25, 2022. Shortly after 10:00 am on February 25th, PST, the company will start sending out the first batch of order emails to those who have pre-ordered a Steam Deck....