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Plus: That Twitter privacy leak, scammers send Ubers for victims, critical flaw in Cisco gear, and more In brief  DuckDuckGo has finally mostly cracked down on the third-party Microsoft tracking scripts that got the alternative search engine into hot water earlier this year.… READ MORE HERE…

What it’s like bargaining with criminals … and advising clients suffering their worst day yet Interview  The first rule of being a ransomware negotiator is that you don’t admit you’re a ransomware negotiator — at least not to LockBit or another cybercrime gang. … READ MORE HERE…

The Feds may see things differently Cryptocurrency bridge Nomad sent a message to the looters who drained nearly $200 million in tokens from its coffers earlier this week: return at least 90 percent of the ill-gotten gains, keep 10 percent as a bounty for discovering the security flaw, and Nomad will consider this a “white-hat” hack, as opposed to plain old theft, and not take legal action.… READ MORE HERE…