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A series of explosions were reported in the Dahieh area of Beirut on Tuesday afternoon, leaving many injured. According to Lebanese reports, dozens of people were killed in the explosions. Later reports said that "dozens" of simultaneous explosions took place in Syria as well, when beepers worn by Hezbollah terrorists exploded. Dahieh is known as a Hezbollah stronghold. According to Sky News, encrypted communications equipment used by Hezbollah for internal messaging exploded. Reuters reported that Hezbollah only began using the beeper devices in question within the last few months; Al-Hadath reported similarly. Arabic media reports that over 3,000 individuals were...

My wife’s Facebook account looks like it’s been hacked. When she requests a reset code, she enters what’s sent and Facebook says the code entered doesn’t match the code sent. Anyone have experience with this? Ideas, suggestions or insights to break through would be appreciated. She uses the feature to stay in touch with old classmates, associates and family on the other side of the country. TIA.

The Trump campaign has confirmed that internal communications have been hacked and leaked to the media. The campaign confirmed the cybercrime after Politico received a series of stolen documents on Saturday. Trump’s team believes Iran may have been behind the hack but has not released any information on the perpetrator. Politico reports: The campaign blamed “foreign sources hostile to the United States,” citing a Microsoft report on Friday that Iranian hackers “sent a spear phishing email in June to a high-ranking official on a presidential campaign.” Microsoft did not identify the campaign targeted by the email and declined to comment...

We should eliminate electronic voting machines. The risk of being hacked by humans or AI, while small, is still too high. ... Puerto Rico’s primary elections just experienced hundreds of voting irregularities related to electronic voting machines, according to the Associated Press. Luckily, there was a paper trail so the problem was identified and vote tallies corrected. What happens in jurisdictions where there is no paper trail? US citizens need to know that every one of their votes were counted, and that their elections cannot be hacked. We need to return to paper ballots to avoid electronic interference with elections....

Lunden Roberts, the mother of Hunter Biden’s daughter, Navy, claimed Friday her phones “crashed” and “just about everything” with Hunter Biden on the device was “gone” after she discovered she was pregnant. Roberts claimed to Sirius XM’s Megyn Kelly that both of her cellphone screens “crashed” at the same time in front of both she and her friends the night she learned she was pregnant with Navy. Yes. It looks like a total meltdown,” Kelly said. Roberts said “a lot of stuff” involving Hunter Biden was missing from her iCloud when she got a new phone the next day. “Just...

In a new revelation, Microsoft Corp. MSFT has explained that Russian hackers stole some of its source code by spying on the company's senior executives. The Windows maker revealed that the attack is still "ongoing."

A news story about the hacking of three million smart toothbrushes to create a massive botnet used to launch a distributed denial of service cyberattack against a Swiss organization has gone viral. However, many in the information security industry, including myself, have trouble finding evidence to support the story.

Pro-Ukrainian saboteurs hacked into Russian television channels in Crimea overnight to air President Volodymyr Zelensky’s speech vowing to liberate the occupied peninsula. In a further humiliation to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime, the pranksters renamed all 20 channels in Crimea’s IPTV network “Putin is a d—head,” as seen in videos shared online. In his brief address to the people of Crimea, who have lived under Moscow’s control since the region was illegally annexed in 2014, Zelensky promised that the occupiers’ presence there “will not last forever.”

A naked selfie of Joe Biden's brother Frank has been discovered on a gay porn site. The photo was uploaded to GuysWithiPhones.com in 2018, when Frank – who has a long-term female partner Mindy Ward – was 64. *** When approached by DailyMail.com, Frank, 69, conceded he was the man in the photo but denied he was the one who posted it. 'I've absolutely no comment. I could care less. I haven't even looked at it,' Frank said Monday morning when asked about the shot at his Florida home. 'They must have hacked my phone,' he added. 'Anything that is...

Google translated: "Dusseldorf. A malfunction in IT has large parts of the Volkswagen- Group paralyzed. The crisis team is convened, large parts of IT and production should be affected. Tapes are sometimes still, email communication does not work. The cause is currently unknown. According to the Handelsblatt, the problem is not limited to Germany alone. Accordingly, locations worldwide are affected. The complete scope of the disruption is not yet apparent, especially since some countries are currently not producing due to the time difference, VW says. The disruption continued on Wednesday evening. Factories from other group brands are also affected Previously,...

Around 2150 hours Comcast went completely down in south central Pennsylvania. No cable, dial tone, or internet. After restoration a number of conservative news sites have become dns blocked, including: World Net Daily Townhall.com The Federatlist The National Herald Surprisingly, DU is also down. Maybe the hacker's attempt at being "fair and balanced"

Donald Trump Jr.’s account on X was hacked early Wednesday, sending a series of offensive tweets — including a sickening one falsely announcing the death of his dad, former President Donald Trump. “I’m sad to announce, my father Donald Trump has passed away. I will be running for president in 2024,” read the first message from Don Jr.’s account, at 8:25 a.m. Proving he was still alive, the former president sent an unrelated message on his own X rival, Truth Social, at 8:46 a.m. — more than 20 minutes after the fake death announcement.

Was the F-35 hacked, as someone that spent his entire working career in the IT industry, perhaps I'm more attuned to this type of story. Supposedly after the pilot ejected, the plane continued flying for some time before crashing, that immediately caught my attention, I figured if the situation was bad enough for the pilot to eject, the plane would have crashed in the same area, not miles away and why was the Pentagon unable to know immediately where the plane was. I did some digging into the history of the F-35 and found plenty of old articles about the...

A Tennessee-based engineer is being investigated by the Pentagon for a “critical compromise” of communications across 17 Air Force facilities. The unnamed engineer, who hasn’t been formally charged, is alleged to have taken home more than $90,000 worth of government radio technologies and gained “unauthorized administrator access” to the Air Force’s Air Education and Training Command (AETC). The security breach comes just three months after a junior Air National Guardsman allegedly leaked a massive number of classified documents online. Jack Teixeira, although relatively low-ranking, used his top-secret security clearance to post hundreds of Ukraine war documents on the Russians and...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation says it has contained a cyber incident at the agency’s New York Field Office that reportedly affected a computer network used in child sexual exploitation investigations. In a statement to FedScoop the agency said it is aware of the incident and is working to gain additional information. The agency added: “This is an isolated incident that has been contained. As this is an ongoing investigation the FBI does not have further comment to provide at this time.” Two sources briefed on the matter told the news organization that the incident involved an FBI computer system...

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) said on Monday that her personal cell phone number “has been hacked and used to make hoax calls.” Noem said her phone was hacked following the release of her and her family’s personal information, including her social security number, by the House Jan. 6 committee. “Callous mishandling of personal information has real world consequences,” Noem said in a statement. “If you get such a phone call from my number, know that I had no involvement.” Noem said she has asked U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and Congress to investigate the leak. Earlier this month,...

Thousands of Norton LifeLock customers had their accounts compromised in recent weeks, potentially allowing criminal hackers access to customer password managers, the company revealed in a recent data breach notice. In a notice to customers, Gen Digital, the parent company of Norton LifeLock, said that the likely culprit was a credential stuffing attack — where previously exposed or breached credentials are used to break into accounts on different sites and services that share the same passwords — rather than a compromise of its systems. It’s why two-factor authentication, which Norton LifeLock offers, is recommended, as it blocks attackers from accessing...

The FTX Community Chat admin sent a message to the official Telegram group of the exchange stating that the bankrupt platform was hacked and all apps were malware. The admin advised users to delete the app and not visit the website or open their mobile applications as they could end up with Trojans.

The New York Post fired an employee was responsible for posts on its website and Twitter account that included racist, violent and sexually explicit headlines. The paper had said earlier that its site was hacked. Tweets and posts targeted politicians, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and President Joe Biden. The posts were removed quickly, and the News Corp-owned New York tabloid newspaper's website was operating as usual by midmorning.

On Wednesday, Solana, a popular blockchain and token, said that some wallets that held its assets had been breached. At least 7,700 such wallets are believed to be affected, the company said, while London-based blockchain-analysis firm Elliptic put the amount stolen at $5.2 million in crypto, which includes Solana tokens and the stablecoin known as USD Coin. The hack is believed to have taken hold on wallets such as Slope and Phantom. These are “hot wallets” — that is, wallets that allow for lightning-fast transactions because they are always connected to the internet, as opposed to “cold wallets,” which usually...