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Facebook Introduces a New Privacy Tool That Is Supposed to Give Users More Control Over Their Data
When it comes to privacy, Facebook rarely comes across as the good guy. The world's biggest social network has been in the middle of more than a few massive security incidents, and it has received its fair share of... Read more
A Simple WhatsApp User Error Can Lead to Big Troubles
Zak Doffman, the CEO of a security company going by the name Digital Barriers and a Forbes contributor, recently stumbled upon an account takeover attack targeting WhatsApp users. It shows once again that for... Read more
Microsoft Has Failed to Protect 250 Million Customer Support Logs
It may not look like it, but big tech giants never sit still. Sometimes, the changes are invisible to the millions of users, but behind the scenes, IT companies constantly update and tweak their internal procedures to... Read more
Do Not Be Tricked by a Sextortion Scam Claiming That Your Nest Camera Was Hijacked
We all know about the security shortcomings plaguing the ever-increasing number of IoT devices, and you probably won't be too surprised to learn that cybercriminals are taking advantage of this. Not in the way you... Read more
Microsoft Stopped Supporting Windows 7: Here's What You Need to Do to Ensure Security
Windows 7 was an integral part of the first steps in computing of a whole generation of users, and we're pretty sure that some of them are probably reading these lines with nostalgia. You might be a bit shocked to... Read more
Shockingly, 93% of Healthcare Organizations in the US Have Faced a Data Breach: Biggest Breaches of 2019
Whether you visited an emergency room, had to stay at the hospital for a few days, or just had your yearly checkup in 2019, there is a good chance that you became a victim of a healthcare data breach without even... Read more
UK Government Declares War on Cybercrime: Weak Default Passwords Will Be Banned
Yesterday, Matt Warman, the Minister of Britain's Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), told The Telegraph that he and his team want to turn the UK into 'the safest place to be online.' This sounds... Read more
Users of Tomato Routers Are Urged to Strengthen Passwords, or They Could Be Breached by Hackers
Certain cybercriminal activities are all about scale. If you want to launch a noteworthy DDoS attack, send large quantities of spam, or generate a wallet full of bitcoins with the help of a cryptojacking campaign, for... Read more
49 Million Business Records Are Sold Online After The LimeLeads Elasticsearch Server Data Breach
Those of you who follow cybersecurity news closely are probably getting pretty tired of hearing about the next in a very long line of companies that have put a huge amount of sensitive data in an internet-connected... Read more
A List Containing Login Information of 515,000 Devices Has Been Leaked Online
Cybersecurity news tends to be dominated by headline-grabbing ransomware outbreaks and crippling cryptojacking campaigns not only because these are among the most common types of attacks, but also because they make... Read more
A High-Severity PayPal Security Vulnerability Was Capable of Exposing Users' Passwords to Hackers
With over 286 million active accounts, PayPal is by far the biggest and most popular payment processor in the world. It has achieved that title not only because it provides a reliable, easy-to-use service, but also... Read more
5 Biggest Data Breaches of 2019, and What We Learned from Them
At the end of the decade, we’re closing a very eventful chapter in the book of cybercrime. The data breaches reported in the year 2019 nearly doubled compared to the numbers logged in 2018. Statistically, over 3,800... Read more
Oski Stealer Threatens Crypto Wallet Owners by Targeting Private Keys
The sad reality is that selling malware could be an extremely lucrative business. There's no shortage of wannabe cybercriminals who don't have the skills to produce a noteworthy threat but are more than willing to... Read more
Hackers Used an E-Skimmer on HannaAndersson.com to Collect Sensitive Data, and Now It's Sold Online
Sometimes, cybercriminals want to make their presence known. In a ransomware attack, for example, you learn that something's wrong as soon as your files become unusable, and your screen displays the ransom note. In... Read more
A Peekaboo Moments Data Breach Exposes Baby Photos and Videos
When security specialists tell you that anyone can fall victim to a data breach, they are not exaggerating with the hope of putting everyone in a state of unnecessary panic. Dan Ehrlich from a security consultancy... Read more
WeLeakInfo.com, A Domain That Sold Access to Private Data, Has Been Seized by the FBI
We all know that cybercriminals buy and sell stolen personal data every day, and we try to convince ourselves that we've done enough to ensure that our own information doesn't end up in the wrong hands. Although many... Read more
Travelex, the World's Largest Currency Exchange, Was Hacked
Travelex was founded more than forty years ago. With over 9 thousand employees and thousands of locations spread all around the world, it's widely regarded to be the biggest foreign exchange company on the planet. You... Read more
Researchers Discover 20,000 Cyber Attacks Every 15 Minutes Using Cyber Honeypots
Cyber attacks are getting more sophisticated as we speak. As long as you are connected to the Internet, you can get attacked. It is time to chuck away this useless conviction that you are not interesting to... Read more
