Tech Updates

A popular Discord security bot designed to block alternate accounts suffered a data breach that exposed information linked to roughly 28 million user accounts, including about 1 million email addresses, according to the operator's official incident report published October 5. Double Counter, run by the Paris-based company Tellter SAS and installed in more than 600,000 Discord communities, records IP addresses and other details during its...

OSLO , Norwegian cybersecurity researchers drove a Chinese-made NIO ES8 electric SUV deep into a decommissioned underground mine near Sandvika outside Oslo to cut it off from external networks, finding the vehicle continued attempting outbound connections with roughly 90 percent directed toward servers in China, according to an independent investigation published this week. The test formed part of Project Lion Cage, a multi-year inquiry...