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A Data Breach Exposes Sensitive Information of 30,000 Department of Defense Personnel
The Pentagon is one of the world's most important buildings, and the US Defense Department has done a lot to ensure that you can't just walk through the front door and roam around freely. In fact, simply getting in is... Read more
It's Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Perfect Time to Take Full Control of Your Security
You know that you can no longer ignore cybersecurity when the Department of Homeland Security and the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) make it a point to have an annual National Cybersecurity Awareness Month... Read more
WhatsApp Accounts Can Be Hacked Using Voicemail. Change Your Password to Protect Yourself
In the 1990's and the 2000's, voicemail, the technology that replaced the answering machine, was very popular. As with so many things from that period, it isn't anymore, and it's not difficult to see what contributed... Read more
NewsNow Urges All Users to Change Passwords NOW After Data Breach
Without using any official channels to announce the news to the world, NewsNow, a British news aggregator agency, sent out email notifications to their users saying that changing some passwords might be in order. The... Read more
British Airways Customers Are Advised to Change Passwords in the Face of Data Breach
Data breaches are on the rise and affect thousands of customers. A study conducted by Radware proved once again that the problem is serious: 45% of companies surveyed experienced a data breach in the last year. At... Read more
20,000 Air Canada Customers Learn That Their Passport Numbers Were Leaked. Change Your Password ASAP!
Flying is, without a doubt, one of the best ways to travel. Airline ticket prices are relatively low, it is the fastest way to reach the desired location, it is the only way to get to some places, and, finally, it is... Read more
The Latest Tumblr Bug Is a Reminder of How Important It Is to Have Strong Passwords
Although it rarely attracts as much media attention as Facebook or Twitter, Tumblr has always been one of the world's major microblogging/social network platforms. It gives hundreds of millions of users the... Read more
Google+ Is Shutting Down, but Your Virtual Security Could Still Be at Risk
On Monday, Ben Smith, Google's Vice President of Engineering, announced that what has to be one of the biggest flops in the company's history is about to meet its maker. Google+, once touted as Google's way of... Read more
Welcome to the Future! Passwords Are Stolen Using the Heat of Your Fingertips
Password problems affect thousands of users worldwide every day. Some users simply lose their passwords and thus can no longer log in to their accounts, whereas others cannot recall them when needed or, even worse,... Read more
Are Weak Passwords to Blame for the Attack on Feedify?
The Magecart cybercrime gang appeared in 2015, and at first, it didn't seem like the most sophisticated group of hackers to have ever walked the Earth. Their specialty is infecting e-commerce websites with malware and... Read more
Veeam Didn't Use a Password, and Now Millions of Email Addresses Are Leaked
All organizations, from your bank to the hot dog stand near your office, need to handle their customers' data with care, and we've come to expect that some will do it better than others. We know that usually, the... Read more
Here We Go Again: Weak Password to Blame for Phone Giant's Data Breached
Personal data has become a highly marketable commodity, and hackers seem to try all potential means to get their hands on it. On the other hand, a data breach may occur not just because a hacker carries out a... Read more
Privacy Breach Leaks Confidential Student Files to a Pupil's iPad
Imagine that you head an organization that makes a mistake and incidentally exposes personal details of quite a few innocent individuals. It is undoubtedly an unpleasant and embarrassing experience, but people can... Read more
What Are the Differences Between Cyber Security and Information Security?
Any user who encounters information technologies every single day will have dealt with information and cyber security in one way or the other. It basically means that every one of us is exposed to these security... Read more
Massive Facebook Data Breach: What You Need to Know and Do ASAP
On Friday, tens of millions of Facebook users tried to see what their friends had shared only to find out that they had been mysteriously logged out of their accounts. After logging back in, they learned what the... Read more
There's a File in Windows That Might Store Your Sensitive Passwords. What to Do About It?
Most of you probably remember the arrival of Windows 8 and the numerous discussions spurred by what many agreed was a pretty poor interface overhaul. Quite a few might have forgotten about the reasons behind the new... Read more
Vodafone Blames Successful Hacking Attack on Customers Who Use Weak Passwords
Failure to set up strong passwords has yet again been proven to affect users in an extremely negative way, and this time these are the Vodafone customers. According to idnes.cz, two hackers (Petr Bužo and Nikola... Read more
Facebook's Privacy App No Longer Available on Apple's App Store Because It Collects Too Much Data
In all likelihood, the word 'privacy' isn't the first thing that comes to your mind when you think about Facebook. Believe it or not, however, for the last five years or so, the social network has been pushing a... Read more
