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Practical guides for journalists and frontline activists on hardening phones, securing accounts, and countering hacking and inspection attempts.

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SuperVPN Users’ data leaked

SuperVPN user data was exposed to the leak, and the data contained more than 360 million and 300 thousand records totaling 133 GB. These records contained a wide range of sensitive information, including users’ email addresses, IP addresses, and geolocation data. While SuperVPN claims that it does not store users’ activity history, the leaked data […]

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Google to delete inactive accounts

Google announced that it will permanently delete inactive personal accounts that have not been logged in for two years, including services such as Gmail, Drive, and Photos. According to Google’s blog, she said that the new policy in deleting inactive accounts comes for security reasons, as old accounts are 10 times less than active accounts […]

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Apple fixes three zero-days vulnerabilities

Apple has issued security updates to correct 3 serious “Zero Day” security vulnerabilities, which means that it is a vulnerability unknown to developers in the company until the time it was discovered, and is already widespread among hackers. The vulnerabilities were tracked and recorded with CVE-2023-32409, CVE-2023-28204, and CVE-2023-32373. The vulnerabilities are related to the […]

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Pro-Houthi spyware operation on Arabian Peninsula

Cyber security company “Recorded Future” revealed the targeting of a hacker group known as “OilAlpha” -which is likely to have links to the Houthi group in Yemen- non-gover organizations, media, and journalists in the Arabian Peninsula. The company noted that from April to May 2022, at a time when Saudi Arabia was hosting negotiations between […]

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WordPress 6.2.1 patches 6 Vulnerabilities

On May 16, 2023, the WordPress team released version 6.2.1, which contains a fix for 5 security vulnerabilities. Since version 3.7, WordPress has supported automatic security version updates, but we recommend checking that your website is already updated. If your site does not update automatically, we recommend that you update manually to avoid cyberattacks targeting […]

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News ⏱️ 1 min read

WhatsApp released “Chat Lock” for privacy

WhatsApp has released the “Chat Lock” feature to keep messages private and confidential with an additional layer of protection. “Locking a chat takes that thread out of the inbox and puts it behind its own folder that can only be accessed with your device password or biometric, like a fingerprint. It also automatically hides the […]

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Discord discloses data breach

Discord, the popular communication application among game players, revealed an incident of data leaka that it was exposed to after hacking into the computer of a customer service employee. According to the company’s statement, the employee belongs to a “third party” that provides its services to Discord. As a result, customer email addresses, messages exchanged […]

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Urgent update to a popular WordPress plugin

An urgent update has been released for the Elementor plugin on the WordPress platform. Corrects a tracked critical security vulnerability, titled CVE-2023-32243, that put more than one million of websites using it at risk. The vulnerability allows The hackers to reset users’ passwords using only the usernames (account name). So website admins are advised to […]

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Twitter launches encrypted messages

Twitter has launched the feature of encrypting private messages, using end-to-end-encrypted encryption, through which only the sender and receiver can see the messages. Encrypted messages are only available to Twitter Blue users, and do not work by default. To activate it: Open the conversation Click on the information icon Initiate an encrypted message Currently, encrypted […]

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