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The Customers of Foxit Software Are Warned About a Data Breach That Exposed Passwords
Foxit Software has disclosed that it was recently a victim of a security breach in which private user data was left unprotected with an unknown third party. The people whose accounts were affected have been contacted... Read more
It Was Confirmed: XKCD Users' Passwords Were Breached During a Data Breach
Those of you interested in mathematics, technology, and information security have probably heard the name Randall Munroe. He is the creator of the XKCD webcomic which uses brilliant stick figure cartoons and a healthy... Read more
Hackers Prove How Easy It Is to Take over Twitter Accounts by Hijacking Jack Dorsey's Profile
What are the consequences of a compromised social network account? It's fair to say that it largely depends on who owns the said account. For most regular users, it's but an inconvenience which, provided they pay... Read more
Surprise, Surprise: In Addition to an Unreliable Service, MoviePass Also Offers Poor Security for Its Customers' Data
MoviePass could very well act as proof that not every good idea leads to success. The company was founded about eight years ago, and its business plan is based on what sounds like a brilliant concept. Subscribers pay... Read more
Beware of an Amazon Phishing Scam That Attempts to Steal Login Credentials
Cybersecurity has taken major steps in recent months, with the systematic disassembly of multiple hacker collectives, take-downs of botnets and the development of anti-malware solutions that are currently stronger... Read more
Air New Zealand Falls Victim to a Phishing Attack
How difficult is it to steal data from an airline company that has more than 10 thousand employees, carries close to 16 million passengers every year, and operates a fleet of over 60 aircraft? As it turns out, it... Read more
Shenzhen i365 Tech Sells 600,000 GPS Trackers with '123456' Set as the Default Password
In August 2018, the State of California passed a bill which is supposed to make Internet of Things (IoT) devices more secure. It has already caused more than a little controversy, with some arguing that lawmakers... Read more
A Month After Poshmark Confirmed a Data Breach, Private User Information Is Sold Online
Almost exactly one month ago, North American online clothing marketplace Poshmark announced that it had suffered a data breach. For reasons that remain unclear, the website decided not to disclose how many people got... Read more
Hackers Drop Malware Using a Spreadsheet Called 'The Worst 25 Passwords'
Back in the day, scams were all about social engineering – confidence artists needed to convince their victims, to woo them in a particular way in order to part them from their cash. Things are somewhat different... Read more
Equifax Is Finally Paying for the Massive Data Breach, and You Can Claim Your Share Too
Do you remember the massive Equifax data breach that shook the cybersecurity world back in 2017? There’s a follow-up story to this incident, now that Equifax seemingly is paying back its customers who were affected by... Read more
A Breach at the Bio Star 2 Security Platform Exposed Millions of Fingerprint Records, Passwords, and Facial Recognition Data
Biometrics is now used for securing both physical and digital assets, and there is a very good reason for this. Authenticating users with the help of fingerprint readers or facial recognition systems is not only... Read more
Thousands of Patients' Data Has Been Breached Thanks to Misconfigured Amazon S3 Buckets
Unfortunately, incidents where large and small companies leave vast amounts of personal data exposed to the internet because of poorly configured databases and servers are an everyday occurrence. Last month, for... Read more
Facebook Users at Risk of SIM-Swapping Attacks After Their Phone Numbers Are Leaked Online
When the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke out in March 2018, people thought it was a big one. The UK-based company had collected the information of quite a few Facebook users through a personality quiz app and had... Read more
How Slack Phishing Works to Harvest Personal Data and how to Prevent It
The sad reality of 2019 is that phishing is no longer just an email security problem. For a while now it has been a communication security problem—and statistics indicate that said problem is growing. In spite of... Read more
FNB Decided to Disable Autofill for Passwords, but Then Immediately Changed Its Mind
Picking the bank that will take care of our personal finances is not a choice we make lightly. After all, we often give this organization our life savings, and we want to make sure that they are in safe hands. It's... Read more
The Oyster Site Was Shut down Due to Password Recycling
So you wanted to get an Oyster card, top it up, or buy a season ticket, but when you tried to do so via the official website, you were not able to do it. Although the services are fully restored now, just a few days... Read more
Telefonica, Deutsche Telekom, and Vodafone Deutschland Drop Passwords. What Does That Mean?
The more the time goes by, the smaller the number of people willing to say that the traditional authentication mechanism that involves a username and a password is robust enough to protect our data in the twenty-first... Read more
23 Million Accounts Have Been Compromised in a CafePress Data Breach
CafePress is an online retailer that sells everything from stationery, through bedding, to hoodies with all sorts of exciting designs. It's been in the business for close to twenty years now, but at the moment it's in... Read more
