The systems confirmed inoperable include tax and online property payments, issuance of marriage licenses, and inmate searches. In response, the Assessment, Collection and Recorder of Deeds offices at all county locations were closed.

The attack involves the automated forking of legitimate repositories, resulting in millions of malicious forks with names identical to the original ones, making detection and removal challenging for GitHub.

ChatGPT users' private conversations were leaked due to unauthorized logins from a different location, highlighting the need for better security measures such as 2FA and IP tracking.

The hackers who recently broke into Microsoft’s network and monitored top executives’ email for two months did so by gaining access to an aging test account with administrative privileges, a major lapse on the company's part, a researcher said.

A massive data tranch containing nearly 71 million unique credentials, including 25 million previously unseen passwords, has been circulating on the internet for at least four months.

The vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2023-846805 and CVE-2024-21887, were used in an attack last month to steal configuration data, modify files, and gain unauthorized access to systems.

The secret hardware function targeted by the attackers allowed them to bypass advanced memory protections, enabling post-exploitation techniques and compromising system integrity.

The breach wasn’t uncovered until Chimera intruders were detected in a separate company network that connected to compromised NXP systems on several occasions. Details of the breach remained a closely guarded secret until now.

The breach occurred in Okta's customer support management system, allowing an unknown attacker to access files uploaded by some Okta customers. 1Password is the second known Okta customer to be targeted in a follow-on attack.

Hackers gained access to Okta's customer support management system, allowing them to view private customer information, including sensitive data such as cookies and session tokens.