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, and open source software. He's an active community member of British Association of Journalists (BAJ) and Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ).
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Air Canada discloses data breach of employee and 'certain records'
Air Canada, the flag carrier and the largest airline of Canada, disclosed a cyber security incident this week in which hackers "briefly" obtained limited access to its internal systems. The incident resulted in the theft of a limited amount of personal information of some of its employees and "certain records."
- September 23, 2023
- 07:16 AM
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Rogers internet outage affecting customers in Ontario, Canada
Rogers customers, primarily those located in Downtown Toronto and parts of Ontario, are reporting outages this week affecting their internet service. Some report being without internet for days, while others are experiencing intermittent disruptions and slowdowns when using their internet.
- September 07, 2023
- 08:27 AM
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Children's snack recalled after its website caught serving porn
Supermarket chain Lidl has been recalling four types of PAW Patrol-themed snacks across the UK. Except, the reason for the recall has got nothing to do with food contents, but the website listed on the snack's packaging serving porn.
- September 03, 2023
- 06:06 AM
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Yes, there's an npm package called @(-.-)/env and some others like it
Strangely named npm packages like -, @!-!/-, @(-.-)/env, and --hepl continue to exist on the internet's largest software registry. While not all of these may necessarily pose an obvious security risk, some were named before npm enforced naming guidelines and could potentially break tooling.
- September 02, 2023
- 08:00 AM
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Rust devs push back as Serde project ships precompiled binaries
Serde, a popular Rust (de)serialization project, has decided to ship its serde_derive macro as a precompiled binary. This has generated a fair amount of concern among some developers who highlight the future legal and technical issues this may pose, along with a potential for supply chain attacks.
- August 19, 2023
- 09:55 AM
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UK gov keeps repeating its voter registration website is NOT a scam
Every year local government bodies or councils across Britain contact residents, asking them to update their voter details on the electoral register if these have changed. To do so, residents are asked to visit HouseholdResponse.com, a domain that looks anything but official and has often confused people, who mistake it for a scam.
- August 13, 2023
- 07:07 AM
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Amazon AWS distances itself from Moq amid data collection controversy
Amazon AWS has withdrawn its association with open source project Moq after the project drew sharp criticism for its quiet addition of data collection features, as first reported by BleepingComputer.
- August 11, 2023
- 10:04 AM
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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
- 01:42 PM
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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
- 01:11 PM
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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
- 09:16 AM
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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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