Author: HackWatchit

“You don’t have to be an expert to deceive someone, though you might need some expertise to reliably recognize when you are being deceived.” When my co-instructor and I start our quarterly lesson on deceptive visualizations for the data visualization course we teach at the University of Washington, he emphasizes the point above to our students. With the advent of modern technology, developing pretty and convincing claims about data is easier than ever. Anyone can make something that seems passable, but contains oversights that render it inaccurate and even harmful. Furthermore, there are also malicious actors who actively want to…

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A U.S. Army soldier who pleaded guilty last week to leaking phone records for high-ranking U.S. government officials searched online for non-extradition countries and for an answer to the question “can hacking be treason?” prosecutors in the case said Wednesday. The government disclosed the details in a court motion to keep the defendant in custody until he is discharged from the military. One of several selfies on the Facebook page of Cameron Wagenius. Cameron John Wagenius, 20, was arrested near the Army base in Fort Cavazos, Texas on Dec. 20, and charged with two criminal counts of unlawful transfer of…

Have you ever thought if computers can make the internet better and faster for everyone? What if an online game was fair in that every player had an equal chance of winning because the system knew how to connect you to the best server and pair you up with other players with similar connection speeds? This isn’t science fiction—this is how far AI has come to reshaping Web3. A Simple Story to Understand the Magic Imagine the last time you played your favorite online game. You understand how it feels to lag or when some people appear to have an…

“Regrettably, I found no available source online to know more about this organization except for those registrations,” wrote the complainant. “They are collecting huge amounts of investment from third world countries in Asia.”One of the FTC complaints alleges that over 6,000 people in Bangladesh were potentially impacted by the OpenAi-etc job scam. The ages listed in the FTC complaints range from teenagers to people in their fifties, with locations spread across multiple Bangladesh cities, from Dhaka to Khulna.“My next trading date was 29 August, 2024,” wrote another complainant. “I made the trade with my whole amount in the evening. But,…

Figuring out how to use a VPN with Android Auto can be frustrating, especially when the dreaded “Communication error 21” stops you in your tracks. If you’ve ever had to disconnect your VPN just to get it working in your car, you’re not alone. Unlike regular apps, Android Auto acts as an extension of your phone, pulling data through predefined system functions instead of making direct network requests. Tech-speak aside, this setup doesn’t play nice with VPNs, which is why you run into that pesky red screen. This guide covers why Android Auto doesn’t work with a VPN by default…

CrowdStrike is excited to announce the general availability of CrowdStrike Falcon® Identity Protection for Microsoft Entra ID, unifying prevention, detection and response to identity-based attacks across hybrid environments. This builds on our existing protection for leading cloud-based identity providers, on-premises Active Directory, and SaaS applications. Threat actors continue to set their sights on organizations’ cloud environments. Adversaries like COZY BEAR and SCATTERED SPIDER relentlessly target cloud identity services like Microsoft Entra ID, using techniques such as password spraying and phishing attacks to break in. Once inside, they can register rogue devices, escalate privileges, and move laterally with compromised credentials in…

United Kingdom water supplier Southern Water has disclosed that it incurred costs of £4.5 million ($5.7M) due to a cyberattack it suffered in February 2024. Southern Water is a private utility company in southern England, providing water services to 2.7 million customers and wastewater services to over 4.7 million customers across Kent, Sussex, Hampshire, and the Isle of Wight. The company supplies 570 million liters of water through a 13,973 km network daily and manages 1,522 million liters of wastewater via a 40,058 km sewer system. Roughly a year back, Southern Water announced that it suffered a security breach, which didn’t…

For the second time since the start of 2025, a huge number of login credentials extracted from infostealer logs has been added to the database powering the HaveIBeenPwned (HIBP) site and breach notification service. In January 2025, HIBP’s creator Troy Hunt added 71 million email addresses to the database. This time around, Hunt has loaded 284 million unique email addresses, alongside the websites they were entered into and the passwords used, as well as 244 million never-before-seen passwords to the Pwned Passwords database. What is HaveIBeenPwned? Launched some eleven years ago, HaveIBeenPwned has become one of the services individuals and…