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A Cyber Security Awareness Study Reveals That Most People Find Advanced Security Measures "Inconvenient"
We have covered various topics on cyber security before. For instance, we discussed the differences between cyber security and information security. We also talked about its future. However, we believe it is important... Read more
Are You Thinking About Purchasing a Webcam from Amazon? Think Twice
Many users install webcams in their homes to feel safer or to watch over their kids. However, recent discoveries by Which? (Consumer’s Association based in the United Kingdom) have revealed that many webcams sold on... Read more
Thanks to StrandHogg, Malware Can Create Fake Login Screens to Steal Your Passwords
On Monday, researchers from a Norwegian mobile security company called Promon publicly disclosed a serious vulnerability in the Android operating system. It's rather aptly named after StrandHogg – the Viking tactic of... Read more
Beware of the 'Update Your Membership with us' Netflix Scam
On Tuesday, researchers from the Australian email security company MailGuard noticed that quite a few users were receiving some interesting messages from what looked like Netflix. The name of the world's most popular... Read more
T-Mobile Data Breach Forces Customers to Change Their Passwords
Over the weekend, T-Mobile customers started receiving text messages that got them quite worried. Their telecommunication provider had suffered a data breach, which resulted in unauthorized access to customer... Read more
The Creator of 'Magic: The Gathering' Warns Users to Change Passwords After a Massive Data Breach
According to Wikipedia, as of 2015, Magic: The Gathering (MTG) was played by about 20 million people. Fortunately, not all of them had accounts with a website dedicated to the hit game. A little over 450 thousand of... Read more
Here's What Happens When a Sprint Contractor Exposes AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon Bills
On its website (which, on an unrelated note, is loaded through HTTP, and not HTTPS), Deardorff Communications, a marketing and communications company based in Georgia, says that its team is highly experienced in a... Read more
A Newly Uncovered WhatsApp Bug Proves That GIFs Are Not So Innocent
How do you like GIFs? If you’re online every single day, you probably cannot imagine your social media or even your text messaging without them. Maybe you use them as memes. Maybe you attach one to your currency... Read more
Hackers Breach Mixcloud and Sell Users' Data Online
After they breach an online service or a website, hackers usually try to monetize the data they've stolen by selling it either on the dark web or on one of the many hacking forums that are indexed by Google and are... Read more
80% of All E-Commerce Apps Leak Customers' Data, and You Are Not Safe
It's time for our daily dose of statistics dedicated to the truly horrifying state of modern-day cybersecurity. This time, they come from mobile security company NowSecure, and they're related to how certain Android... Read more
Twitter's 2-Factor Authentication No Longer Requires Your Phone Number
In an effort to give people a less stressful experience, Twitter is making changes to its login system. The microblogging platform's security team announced in a tweet yesterday that from now on, users will have... Read more
Disney+ Just Rolled out, and Thousands of Accounts Have Been Hacked Already
Disney+, the video-on-demand platform launched by the eponymous entertainment giant, is off to a shaky start. Even before the launch, users were not ecstatic about the fact that getting their favorite content could... Read more
FBI Warns That Social Engineering Techniques Could Help Bypass Multi-Factor Authentication
A while ago, we talked about how useful Two-Factor Authentication and Multi-Factor Authentication systems can be and how they can help users protect their accounts from hackers. However, with time, cybersecurity... Read more
A New Scam Is Targeting Venmo Users via SMS Messages
With every new security issue that makes the headlines, we ought to update our cybersecurity knowledge. The latest Venmo SMS scam should probably make us pay more attention to what kind of text messages we receive.... Read more
Millions of SMS Messages – Some of Which Contained Login and Authentication Codes – Have Been Exposed
We have talked in the past about how using text messages as a means of transferring sensitive information is not a very good idea. The technology behind SMS messages is simply too old, and the increasing popularity of... Read more
1.2 Billion Private Data Records Have Been Found on an Unsecured Server
Those of you with an active interest in cybersecurity won't be too surprised to find out that researchers have disclosed the discovery of yet another wide-open server that held a massive amount of personal... Read more
Over 2 Million GateHub and EpicBot Customers Are Warned About a Data Breach
Have you ever wondered how a cybercriminal can get their hands on the personal data of millions of unsuspecting people? Here's how. On October 25, an anonymous user on a hacking forum shared a database with 2.2... Read more
Google Drive Accounts Might Be at Risk Due to the Lumin PDF Data Breach
Lumin PDF, or Lumin PDF Viewer, is a popular tool that allows opening, editing, and also sharing PDF (Portable Document Format) files directly via a chosen web browser. It allows users to highlight and underline,... Read more
