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Besides their makeup, thousands of Sephora customers should start worrying about the security of their personal information. Security audit specialists report that the French cosmetics company has begun notifying its customers in Southeast Asia of a cybersecurity incident recently occurring in one of the company’s databases. “Your personal information is truly important to us, as […]
For stock exchange investors, services like Robinhood, an app that makes it easy to trade shares, have become a fundamental tool because of its ease of use and its lows, or even no commissions. However, web application security experts believe that using these services can lead to serious security issues and, in the worst case, […]
Data breach incidents are more common than we think. According to data security specialists, most of the time hackers do not get information directly from individuals, but focus on compromising the security of companies that store multiple personal data of their customers. This appears to be the case of the pay-TV company Sky, which has […]
According to information security specialists, several users of Deliveroo, a food delivery app, suffered the hacking of their accounts, as the app charged their accounts with hundreds of food and drinks bills that they never actually ordered. One London resident who was affected by the incident claims that an unknown user made purchases at multiple […]
The massive 2017 data breach in Equifax compromised more than 140 million sensitive data, including social security numbers, payment card details, among others. Recently, data protection specialists reported that the company had reached an agreement with U.S. government agencies, an agreement that included payment of about $650M USD for damage repair. One of the highlights […]
A new vulnerability in NVIDIA Tegra processors exposes multiple cyberattacks to systems that use them, primarily Internet of Things (IoT) devices. According to information security services specialists, vulnerable equipments are exposed to data forwarding, hijacking, malicious code execution and privilege escalation. Researcher Triszka Balázs was in charge of discovering the vulnerability; after publishing its finding, […]
Specialists in system audits have detected a new ransomware variant that has already managed to infect more than a hundred private companies and government institutions in the United States and, most recently, in China. Tencent, the company in charge of the report, claims that the attacks are directed from Asian territory. The report mentions that […]
Data protection specialists say that, after two years, business advisory firm Equifax has reached an agreement with U.S. government agencies to pay around $700M USD due to massive data breach happened in the company in 2017. The agreement involves bodies such as the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the Consumer Protection Bureau, and several states’ attorney […]
A hacker group successfully launched a cyber attack against the Federal Security Service (FSB), a Russian government intelligence agency. According to reports from cybersecurity specialists, about 7.5 terabytes of classified information were extracted in the attack. Various media claim that among the information compromised during this incident are Russian projects to disable private browsing with […]
Ransomware is a category of malware that brings trouble to users by locking files by an industry-standard encryption protocol (usually AES – Advanced Encryption Standard), and asking them to pay a “ransom” in order to restore the files to their original state. It is a virus that requires money in exchange for restoring such a […]
Facial recognition systems are becoming more sophisticated. When we post a photo on Facebook accompanied by our closest friend, it is almost certain that the system will identify our faces and suggest us to add a tag. According to ethical hacking specialists, governments around the world and private companies are driving the creation of a […]
Technology companies systematically monitor our online activity. Information security experts have been mentioning it for years, but many people still seem to be ignoring it; recently, reports have increased that this surveillance occurs even when users enable private browsing mode to visit adult content sites. The tracking software used by companies such as Facebook and […]
Cybersecurity services specialists reported a ransomware attack that temporarily affected the operations of the community radio station WMNF 88.5 – FM, based in Tampa, Florida. According to statements by interim general manager Cindy Reichard, that nasty incident began sometime on June 18. The next day, one of the radio station’s programmers detected strange behavior on […]
According to network security specialists, thousands of cyberattacks compromised the information security of more than 10k Microsoft customers last year. Most of these malicious activities were reportedly carried out from countries such as North Korea, Iran and Russia. Microsoft’s corporate vice president for customer trust and security, Tom Burt, mentioned on the company’s official blog […]
Data security specialists at security firm Safety Dectectives & CNET have discovered a massive data breach (almost 900 GB of compromised information) originating from a server established in China; the exposed server has already been shut down. The exposed server is an Elastic implementation and exposes the personal information of millions of Chinese citizens. The […]
Ransomware is one of the most common cyber threats that users face nowadays. According to IT security audit experts, every few days groups of threat actors launch new campaigns to infect users, encrypt their files and demand ransoms in exchange for compromised information access. Although there are dozens of variants of encryption malware, one of […]
Web application security specialists reported critical firmware-level vulnerability in Lenovo’s storage devices connected to network; if exploited, this flaw could compromise the security of the information of the users of these implementations. The vulnerability exists only in some models of network attached storage (NAS) devices and allows unauthenticated users to access and read data stored […]
Experts in vulnerability testing discovered a critical flaw in Ad Inserter, a plugin for advertising management on WordPress sites. If exploited, this flaw would allow any low-privileged user to execute code on the compromised web server. After the presence of this flaw was verified, multiple members of the cybersecurity community recommended that system administrators using […]
Ethical hacking specialists from cybersecurity firm Symantec reported the discovery of a vulnerability that, if exploited, would allow a hacker to access files (such as photos, videos or PDF documents) shared via WhatsApp and Telegram. The vulnerability, dubbed by experts as ‘Media File Jacking’, exists due to the time span between writing a file on […]
Last Saturday night, a blackout in New York left the entire Manhattan area without electric power; interestingly, the incident occurred on the anniversary of the massive blackout that happened in 1977 that left the entire city without power, crippling traffic and all work, academic and domestic activities, network security specialists report. Con Edison, one of […]
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