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This will be the second time when hackers have targeted T-Mobile in two years. The telecom giant T-Mobile announced on Thursday that it suffered a data breach in which hackers accessed personal information of its prepaid wireless customers. In a statement, the company revealed that data accessed by hackers included names, phone numbers, along with […]
Earlier this year, the Israeli owner of the van demonstrated how hacking tools in his surveillance van were capable of hacking any smartphone. If there’s one thing that can be detrimental to any cybersecurity expert, it is bragging. Sure, you may have bragging rights but using them can land you in very hot waters – […]
If you like to watch movies and TV series online then you should know what Disney+ is but for those who don’t, Disney+ is a video-on-demand streaming service owned by Walt Disney. The service was launched last week on November 12th, 2019. However, word on the Internet is that hackers have been selling thousands of […]
Data of Millions at risk as Leading US IT Firm Failed to Detect Security Breaches for Years. Getting your website hacked is probably your worst nightmare. However, the case of Utah-based tech firm InfoTrax Systems proves that what’s worse is getting your website hacked multiple times successfully. Reportedly, the company could not detect intrusions, which […]
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 […]
Over the past few months, we’ve come across data breaches that are bad for anyone but the bad guys themselves. But just once in a while, we can sit back and rejoice on a breach happening. One such moment occurred a few days ago when membership data from a Pro-Nazi site named Iron March was […]
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 […]
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 […]
“There is no way to tell his story without telling my own. And if his story is a confession, then so is mine.” – Captain Benjamin L. Willard, Apocalypse Now. 16:05, Atrium Bar President Hotel, London – Having spent a quarter of a century in information technology and thirteen years in one uniform or another […]
For many companies, data compliance regulations are a huge burden, and one that’s only getting heavier. The GDPR regulations introduced in the EU last year were just the tip of an iceberg of customer confidentiality and permission requirements. Hot on its heels comes the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA), due to become effective in January […]
29 percent of small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) spend less than $1,000 for their IT security each year. This comes as a worrying statistic considering the rampant cybersecurity threats that all businesses face these days. Falling victim to a cyberattack can have serious consequences especially for SMBs. Security breach costs are rising. The recent IBM […]
In the still earlier years of Facebook, around 2009, Farmville was the go-to game for me and thousands of users on Facebook. Built by Zynga, an American game developer, it surely made our lives more fun. However, the company has many more famous titles to its name. One such game named “Words with Friends” was […]
Your exposed webcams are backdoor for creeps. Every cybersecurity article you’ll find will include some sort of reminder emphasizing the use of strong passwords, good antivirus software and the related usual. However, there is less care taken to ensure the hardware components of our computers are secure. In the wake of this, Avishai Efrat, a […]
Data of Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks was also found in this breach who lived in the Ecuadorian embassy in London since 2012 till April this year after being granted asylum initially. When companies like Facebook can suffer data breaches, it is a good idea for smaller firms to step up their security game. This […]
If you have an account on XKCD forum change its password right now. The popular webcomic XKCD has been hacked. Apparently, unknown hackers were able to breach the XKCD forum and manage to steal personal data of over 562,000 users. The breach took place last month while the stolen data was identified by Adam Davies, […]
Google’s new Password checkup extension checks for leaked credentials and informs whether they have been leaked before in a data breach. In 2019, more than 20 million unique passwords among other credentials were leaked and available online for sale. This fact represents only one year since the advent of the internet and over the years […]
Epic Games who developed Fortnite has been sued for not protecting Fortnite accounts from hackers. There are currently more than 250 million registered Fortnite accounts which is a big thing for Epic Games, who developed the game. At the same time, it is a lucrative target for hackers and that’s the reason when Fortnite is […]
The hacker behind the breach has been arrested after they bragged about hacking Capital One. Capital One Financial Corporation, a United States-based bank holding company has suffered a massive data breach in which personal and financial data of over 106 million customers has been accessed and stolen. Out of 106 million, 100 million customers are […]
The hackers stole the data and shared it with another hacking group who was involved in the hacking of another FSB contractor. On Saturday, 13 July 2019, a group of hackers going by the online handle of 0v1ru$ hacked and defaced the official website of SyTech, a high-profile contractor working for Russian intelligence agency FSB […]
Slack data breach took place in 2015 but the company became aware of the incident recently through its bug bounty program. Slack has suffered a data breach in which thousands of users have been affected. As a result, the company is resetting passwords of thousands of impacted users. The data breach took place back in […]