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Mathew J Schwartz
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Cybersecurity reporter
'Herodotus' Trojan for Android attempts to succeed by mimicking human sluggishness www.databreachtoday.com/herodotus-an...
October 30, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I would never have gotten that, well done. And sweet dreams are made of cherry pie.
October 20, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Fresh phishing kit innovation includes automated ClickFix/paste-and-run attacks, dynamic lure pages built using AJAX, and more strategies for harvesting usernames, passwords and multifactor authentication tokens in real time. www.databreachtoday.com/fresh-phishi...
October 16, 2025 at 10:48 AM
"This isn't the malware you're looking for." If you can't outsmart the AV, maybe you can sweet-talk the AI algorithm into looking the other way.
www.databreachtoday.com/skynet-tries...
July 3, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Brave new kernel: Microsoft previews safer Windows ecosystem, including Windows 11 revamp meaning third-party security tools can do their magic without requiring direct access to the operating system innards. www.databreachtoday.com/blogs/brave-...
July 1, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Food retail giant Ahold Delhaize, which runs the largest collection of grocery stores on the US East Coast— including Food Lion, the Giant Company and Stop & Shop—notifies 2.2 million U.S. employees that a 2024 data breach exposed their personal data. www.databreachtoday.com/food-retail-...
June 28, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Finally and about time: Volkswagen reintroducing physical controls for vital functions
www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new... #UI #UX
March 12, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Mega-breaches bump up last year's victim count, as the Identity Theft Resource Center catalogs 3,158 known US incidents in 2024.
www.databreachtoday.com/mega-breache...
January 28, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Anyone know whatever happened with this attempted reboot of the classic games console that first launched in 1979?
"Intellivision® To Release New Family Video Game Console" (May 2018)
www.prnewswire.com/news-release...
December 4, 2024 at 9:38 AM
Happy belated St Andrews Day 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
December 2, 2024 at 10:35 PM
Let's try again, HMG: A strong warning from a British government official over Russian cyberwar sparked backlash from cybersecurity specialists who urged a measured approach to assessing the potential effects of Kremlin hacking.
www.databreachtoday.com/experts-urge...
November 26, 2024 at 9:25 AM
Insightful: Today's dystopia looks a lot like the imaginings of Philip K. Dick, says Henry Farrell.
www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-pkd-dy...
November 26, 2024 at 9:04 AM
Dundee Contemporary Arts today
November 24, 2024 at 1:38 PM
Beautiful winter light. Seen here: The McManus: Dundee's Art Gallery and Museum.
#scotland
November 22, 2024 at 10:16 AM
Gorgeous winter morning Sunday in Edinburgh
November 19, 2024 at 8:56 AM
Sunset last night over the Tay River
#scotland #tayriver #dundee #fife
November 15, 2024 at 10:13 AM