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In what’s likely to be a goldmine for bad actors, personal information associated with approximately 533 million Facebook users worldwide has been leaked on a popular cybercrime forum for free—which was harvested by hackers in 2019 using a Facebook vulnerability. The leaked data includes full names, Facebook IDs, mobile numbers, locations, email addresses, gender, occupation, […]
A newly discovered glitch in Zoom’s screen sharing feature can accidentally leak sensitive information to other attendees in a call, according to the latest findings. Tracked as CVE-2021-28133, the unpatched security vulnerability makes it possible to reveal contents of applications that are not shared, but only briefly, thereby making it harder to exploit it in […]
The Office of the Washington State Auditor (SAO) on Monday said it’s investigating a security incident that resulted in the compromise of personal information of more than 1.6 million people who filed for unemployment claims in the state in 2020. The SAO blamed the breach on a software vulnerability in Accellion’s File Transfer Appliance (FTA) […]
Moscow, the capital of Russia, has 175,000 CCTV cameras for surveillance purposes. Out of these, over 4,000 cameras are installed in crowded places in the city. In 2017, the mayor of Moscow said that the 3,000 cameras installed in the city had been integrated with the government’s facial recognition technology. Moscow’s city video surveillance system’s […]
If you run a small business, it’s a matter of when, not if, your computer system or cyberinfrastructure falls prey to cybercriminals. Every day, thousands of small companies find their systems compromised and data stolen. When large companies are hacked, the media soon report the details. These giant corporations can afford the most advanced cyber […]
People have the right to privacy on their mobile phones. However, with the increase of malicious hackers and the use of third-party apps, this privacy is diminishing. Companies and cyber criminals look to obtain your data by any means, and use it to their advantage. However, most consumers don’t want their personal information getting in […]
Another day, another breach involving Facebook, Twitter, and third-party developers. On Monday, both Facebook and Twitter announced that the data of hundreds of users had been compromised due to a software development kit (SDK) named “One Audience” giving third-party developers access to certain data. The data includes email addresses, usernames and recent tweets of anyone […]
People often make a great effort to protect their credit/debit card details against fraudulent transactions. This has been further helped by banks implementing increased security with the help of two-factor authentication( 2FA). However, there’s this one instance where even 2FA doesn’t save you. Imagine someone replaces a legitimate payment page with a fraudulent one. Once […]
Are you a T-Mobile prepaid customer? If yes, you should immediately create or update your associated account PIN/passcode as additional protection. The US-based telecom giant T-Mobile today disclosed a yet another data breach incident that recently exposed potentially personal information of some of the customers using its prepaid services. What happened? In a statement posted […]
Information security specialists from firm vpnMentor, led by expert Noam Rotem, discovered a data breach that affected Gekko Group, a subsidiary brand of Accor Hotels. Gekko Group is a leading European B2B hotel booking platform that also owns several smaller brands. It seems that the database compromised during this incident hosted a considerable amount of […]
Article updated with a statement from Facebook. We frequently come across apps unauthorizedly accessing certain features or data of smartphones but mostly these are from SMEs. Sometimes, however, we’re astonished to see multi-billion dollar corporations engage in the same. For now, take Facebook who has recently been found using the iPhone’s camera through its iOS […]
Roughly 100 App Developers Retained Unauthorized Access to Group Members’ Data. Another day, another data breach at Facebook – If you are a member of any group on Facebook, chances are that your data could have been compromised, as per the recent revelations made by the social networking giant in its latest blog post. According […]
An organized network of Camgirl sites has reportedly exposed personal data of millions of sex workers and users who participated in sessions on those sites. Simply put: A bundle of databases was left exposed to the public without any authentication. Originally discovered by security researchers at Condition:Black; the exposed network belonged to Barcelona, Spain’s based […]
The top 5 passwords used by the Technology industry among Fortune 500 Companies were “passw0rd,” and “abc123.” The dark web is one of those places that is either underestimated or highly exaggerated by many but when it comes to hackers and cybercriminals dark web marketplaces are a safe haven. Recently, ImmuniWeb, an IT security company […]
Virtual private network services (VPN) company NordVPN has revealed a hacking incident that occurred last year. According to web application security experts, in March 2018 a threat actor broke into one of the company’s servers, located in Finland, exposing some data on the browsing habits of its customers. NordVPN states that the server did not […]
Users today realize that they may get hacked, logically because they’re no experts at cyber-security and attackers smarter than they are out there. Yet, a bitter truth amidst this realization is that laymen are not only vulnerable, the world’s securest companies also get breached now and then. To take it a step further, those who […]
“Sudoing” lately? Linux or any Unix-based platform users are well aware of the Sudo command. In Unix and Linux, the Sudo keyword lets users gain special privileges to execute certain commands, which normally they cannot execute. Sudo command is perhaps one of the most significant of all commands in the Linux/Unix framework and if misused, […]
Data protection specialists report that an unidentified threat actor is auctioning off a database with records of more than 90 million Brazilian citizens on dark web forums. The bidder states that each registration is unique and 100% real, making it possible to make a detailed profile of some of the people affected for malicious purposes. […]
A quick Google search for the “most secure messaging apps” introduces you to “Signal – a private messenger.” Yet, who knew that it still would be vulnerable? On Saturday, September 29, Google’s Project Zero team which is responsible for finding previously unknown exploits discovered that calls on the app could be answered even if the […]
In the Facebook vs Eva Glawischnig-Piesczek case, Europian Union’s highest court has ruled against the Silicon Valley tech giant. Under the ruling, which cannot be appealed, countries can order Facebook to take down all kinds of content (posts, comments, images, videos) on a global scale. #ECJ : #EU law does not preclude a host provider […]
A few months ago reports emerged that Google was asking random strangers to sell their facial data in exchange for a $5 gift card to train Pixel 4’s facial recognition system. Now, a new report from the New York Daily suggests that Google contractors covertly targeted homeless people and dark-skinned people for the data without […]