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According to cyber forensics course specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security (IICS), some users of the fast food chain app Chipotle Mexican Grill report that their accounts have been misused in different locations. Spokespersons for the fast food chain claim that they have not detected any traces of a data breach in their […]
As part of its habit (which seems to die hard), Facebook has been found uploading contact details of around 1.5 million users without their knowledge while it asked users of his or her email passwords. The new revelation suggests that since 2016, Facebook has been “unintentionally” accumulating users’ contacts, and uploading them onto the platform when […]
India’s Leading outsourcing giant Wipro Ltd confirmed that some of its employee accounts have been hacked in an advanced phishing campaign. The company detected an abnormal activity in a few of his employee accounts on its network. Kerbs On Security detailed that the companies It systems have been hacked and used to launch an attack […]
An unprotected database belonging to JustDial, India’s largest local search service, is leaking personally identifiable information of its every customer in real-time who accessed the service via its website, mobile app, or even by calling on its fancy “88888 88888” customer care number, The Hacker News has learned and independently verified. Founded over two decades […]
The non-profit mutual insurance organization Blue Cross of Idaho has confirmed that, in recent days, an unidentified user has been able to access its contributor portal to extract confidential information of nearly 6000 people, reported cyber forensics course specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security (IICS). Through a statement, the non profit insurer mentioned: […]
As part of another data breach (this time involving Microsoft), several users’ Outlook accounts were accessed by hackers for three months. According to a report by The Verge, a support agent’s account was hacked by unnamed hackers from January 2019 to March 28, 2019, due to which the malicious attackers could get access to several […]
Microsoft announced a data breach by unknown hackers who have compromised the Microsoft technical support agent’s credentials and gain access to some of the Microsoft customer’s Email. Cybercriminals breached the Microsoft network between January 1 and March 28 and compromise the Microsoft support agent’s credentials. Microsoft notified to the customer via Email on Friday said, […]
If you have an account with Microsoft Outlook email service, there is a possibility that your account information has been compromised by an unknown hacker or group of hackers, Microsoft confirmed The Hacker News. Earlier this year, hackers managed to breach Microsoft’s customer support portal and access information related to some email accounts registered with […]
It’s a new day and Facebook is featured in the news yet again (for the wrong reasons of course!). The Mark Zuckerberg-owned company has been found leaking data of millions of users to third-parties. According to a report by Research Firm UpGuard, two sets of user data has been discovered which was exposed to all. […]
According to the ethical hacking training specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security (IICS), students, professors and administrative staff of Georgia Tech, a university recognized internationally for its computer science program, have been victims of a data breach incident that would have compromised around 1.3 million of company records. Georgia Tech recently revealed the […]
It’s been a bad week for Facebook users. First, the social media company was caught asking some of its new users to share passwords for their registered email accounts and now… …the bad week gets worse with a new privacy breach. More than half a billion records of millions of Facebook users have been found […]
The clock ticking its way to midnight. On New Year’s Eve, a lot of people hope only the best things will happen in 2019. There were though plenty of things to complain about last year. One of the biggest issues seemed to be the massive amount of security breaches involving digital companies and social media […]
The Georgia Institute of Technology, well known as Georgia Tech, has confirmed a data breach that has exposed personal information of 1.3 million current and former faculty members, students, staff and student applicants. In a brief note published Tuesday, Georgia Tech says an unknown outside entity gained “unauthorized access” to its web application and accessed […]
Working with large amounts of data without taking the necessary security steps can pose a huge risk to any organization. According to the ethical hacking training experts from the International Institute of Cyber Security (IICS), unprotected databases significantly increase the chances of a company being a victim of a data breach. For example, more than […]
Toyota hacked, yes, Toyota major subsidiaries network compromised by unknown hackers and they gained unauthorized access to the network where Toyota stored nearly 3.1 million customers sensitive information. Toyota Motor Corporation is a Japan-based, world’s second-largest automotive manufacturer who produces more than 10 million vehicles per year. This security incident affected Japan-based Toyota subsidiaries networks […]
Cyber attacks are not always dramatic in nature, to a point that the users receive notification that something bad is already happening in the system that needs the attention of system administrators. Cyber espionage is one, where the goal is to extract as much information for the system as possible without the possibility of getting […]
The personal data of nearly one billion people are exposed online because of the terrible practices of a marketing company that apparently has disappeared without a trace since the incident, reported the authors of the book ‘Learn ethical hacking’ and experts from the International Institute of Cyber Security (IICS). According to reports, about 980 million […]
Dana Nessel, the Michigan Atty. General has issued a warning to residents that 600,000 residents of Michigan needs to monitor their bank accounts due to the Wolverine Solution Group’s possible data breach due to ransomware infection that occured last Sep 2018. The official is highly recommending people who received a notification letter confirming that their […]
What is Article 13? The European Union has passed a wide-reaching update to copyright laws, the first since 2001. Most of the changes in the EU Copyright Directive are uncontroversial, setting out how copyright contracts are managed and licensed, but Article 13 could have a huge impact on how material is shared online. Put simply, […]
Data breaches seem to have become a trend in the tech world as various tech companies appear to be involved in some (everyone knows about Facebook!). Now, a new report suggests that HMD Global-owned Nokia could also be a part of the league, as some Nokia phones have reportedly sent user information to Chinese servers. […]
Security researchers discovered 257,287 legal documents from unprotected Elasticsearch cluster that hosted on a US-based Amazon AWS server. The unprotected sensitive documents labeled as “not designated for publication‘” and the data contains 4.7GB highly sensitive legal documents. Further investigation reveals that the data managed by Lex Machina, an IP litigation research company and division of […]