Ax Sharma
Author Bio
Ax Sharma is a Security Researcher and Tech Reporter. His works and expert analyses have frequently been featured by leading media outlets including the BBC, Business Insider, Fortune, TechCrunch, TechRepublic, The Register, WIRED, among others. Ax's expertise lies in vulnerability research, malware analysis, open source software, and scam investigations. He's an active community member of the British Association of Journalists (BAJ) and the Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ).
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Popular open source project Moq criticized for quietly collecting data
Open source project Moq (pronounced "Mock") has drawn sharp criticism for quietly including a controversial dependency in its latest release. Moq's 4.20.0 release from this week included another project, SponsorLink, which caused an uproar among open source software consumers, who likened the move to a breach of trust.
- August 09, 2023
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Google News, Discover links showing 404 Not Found? Here's how to fix
It happens here and then when Google Discover news feed stories you click on, take you to a 404 (Not Found) page—despite being live and up at the time. Here's how you can still read your favorite stories, and even workaround the bug that has occasionally bothered some users in the past.
- August 06, 2023
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Spotify down: music searches, pages, account signups not working
Spotify users are reporting the music streaming service to be down in the last hour. Spotify team is currently investigating the cause.
- August 04, 2023
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Israel's largest oil refinery website offline after DDoS attack
Website of Israel's largest oil refinery operator, BAZAN Group is inaccessible from most parts of the world as threat actors claim to have hacked the Group's cyber systems.
- July 30, 2023
- 05:40 AM
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Apple rejects new name 'X' for Twitter iOS app because... rules
Mr. Musk may have successfully pushed Twitter's new name and logo, 'X', and even made the vanity domain x.com redirect to the social media website, but that's not to say, the Mathematical double-struck letter will fit the bill everywhere. Apple's App Store can't accept Twitter iOS app's new name due to minimum character requirements
- July 29, 2023
- 06:33 AM
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Twitter's rebranding to 'X' triggers Microsoft Edge security alert
Microsoft Edge web browser has been displaying security warnings after Twitter changed its name to 'X'. It's got to do with a security feature dubbed 'Progressive Web App Icon change', designed to keep users safe during app icon or name changes.
- July 28, 2023
- 12:30 PM
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Swiss visa appointments cancelled in UK due to 'IT incident'
All appointments for Swiss Schengen tourist and transit visa applicants have been cancelled across the UK. TLScontact, the Swiss government's chosen IT provider for facilitating visa applicants for citizens of third countries, has blamed an 'IT incident' at its London, Manchester, and Edinburgh centers for appointment cancellations.
- July 27, 2023
- 07:53 AM
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Shutterfly says Clop ransomware attack did not impact customer data
Shutterfly, an online retail and photography manufacturing platform, is among the latest victims hit by Clop ransomware. Over the last few months, Clop ransomware gang has been exploiting a vulnerability in the MOVEit File Transfer utility to breach hundreds of companies to steal their data and attempt extortion against them.
- July 14, 2023
- 04:09 AM
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JumpCloud resets admin API keys amid ‘ongoing incident’
JumpCloud, a US-based enterprise software firm is notifying several customers of an "ongoing incident." As a caution, the company has invalidated existing admin API keys to protect its customer organizations. Headquartered in Colorado, the cloud-based directory-as-a-service platform serves over 180,000 organizations across the world.
- July 06, 2023
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Twitter's bot spam keeps getting worse — it's about porn this time
Forget crypto spam accounts, Twitter's got another problem which involves bots and accounts promoting adult content and infiltrating Direct Messages and interactions on the platform. And there doesn't seem to be an easy solution in sight.
- July 02, 2023
- 11:05 AM
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PyPI temporarily pauses new users, projects amid high volume of malware
PyPI, the official third-party registry of open source Python packages has temporarily suspended new users from signing up, and new projects from being uploaded to the platform until further notice. The unexpected move comes amid the registry's struggle to upkeep with a large influx of malicious users and packages
- May 20, 2023
- 09:19 PM
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npm packages caught serving TurkoRAT binaries that mimic NodeJS
Researchers have discovered multiple npm packages named after NodeJS libraries that even pack a Windows executable that resembles NodeJS but instead drops a sinister trojan.
- May 20, 2023
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Airline exposes passenger info to others due to a 'technical error'
airBaltic, Latvia's flag carrier has acknowledged that an 'internal technical error' exposed reservation details of some of its passengers to other airBaltic passengers.
- May 15, 2023
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Kingston's SSD firmware has Coldplay lyrics hidden within it
What has firmware got to do with pop rock, you ask? That's the question that crossed a security researcher's mind as he analyzed Kingston's firmware and stumbled upon the lyrics of a popular Coldplay song buried deep within it.
- May 10, 2023
- 10:13 AM
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QR codes used in fake parking tickets, surveys to steal your money
As QR codes continue to be heavily used by legitimate organizations—from Super Bowl advertisements to enforcing parking fees and fines, scammers have crept in to abuse the very technology for their nefarious purposes. A woman in Singapore reportedly lost $20,000 after using a QR code to fill out a "survey" at a bubble tea shop.
- May 08, 2023
- 11:32 AM
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