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A cybersecurity incident has impacted Zynga Inc., a popular social media video game company. According to information security specialists, the incident has compromised the personal information of nearly 220 million users worldwide. Through an official statement, the company reported that Gonsticplayers, a hacker from Pakistan managed to compromise the security of Words with Friends, a […]
To many people, the idea of using a VPN is still in its infancy while some believe that VPNs are for those who often use public Wi-Fi networks. There is no doubt that VPNs can be very useful when browsing the internet via public Wi-Fi. Related: Top 10 VPN Services For 2019 However, the benefits […]
gitGraber is a tool developed in Python3 to monitor GitHub to search and find sensitive data for different online services such as: Google, Amazon, Paypal, Github, Mailgun, Facebook, Twitter, Heroku, Stripe… How it work ? It’s important to understand that gitGraber is not designed to check history of repositories, many tools can already doing […]
Data protection specialists report that UNICEF, the United Nations (UN) humanitarian assistance agency for children, mistakenly leaked the personal information of thousands of people through Agora, an online learning system. Although the official version speaks of a human error, many still fear that it is actually a hacking attack. A couple of weeks ago, an […]
Over time, temporary files can accumulate and take up storage space. If you want to free up storage space, you can delete temporary files – Here’s how to remove temporary files in Windows 10. Temporary files, which are usually referred to as Temp files, are junk files that are left behind after you have completed […]
A Swiss lawyer has accused ProtonMail that the company has initiated offering IP Logging upon request of Swiss authorities. ProtonMail, the famous end-to-end encrypted email service from Switzerland, has denied the claims made by a Swiss lawyer Martin Steiger regarding the company’s involvement in voluntary assistance to Swiss authorities for real-time surveillance. The head of […]
The 24 GB database was hosted on a Microsoft cloud server. Another day, another data breach; this time researchers have discovered an unprotected cloud repository containing personal and financial information of more than 80 million US households. This incident reminds us of two similar breaches in which highly sensitive data of 200 million and 82 […]
We normally consider family locator app as a blessing because we are able to track our family members conveniently through them. But, what if your private data collected or shared on such an app gets misused by cybercriminals because the app fails to secure it properly? It would instantly become a nuisance…no? The same has […]
The Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General has released a report revealing that FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) couldn’t protect the private and confidential information of about 2.3 million hurricane survivors. In 2017, residents of Harvey, Maria, Irma, and California wildfires and hurricanes were offered Transitional Sheltering Assistance (TSA), which is a […]
MySpace says it happened during a server migration project. Last time the once prominent social network website MySpace made headlines in 2016 after it suffered a massive data breach in which personal data of 427 million users including emails and passwords was stolen and leaked online. Now, it has been revealed that MySpace has lost another trove of […]
VPN is a wonderful thing that you all have probably heard about. I assume it was something like this: “Using a VPN you can visit websites blocked by state services and engage in any network activity without fear of revealing your actual IP address.” If you thought that Virtual Private Network is a magic tool […]
To test the security of its data, Russia is considering disconnecting its Internet service for a short period of time. The test will affect all the data sent by Russian citizens or organizations as Internet access would be limited only within the national territory, meaning that they will not be routed internationally. The test has […]
It hasn’t even been 15 days since details of the world’s biggest online private data dump were discovered by security researchers and now its second “installment” has posted online. As per the report from Heise.de, a German-language website, the first collection, which was published on January 17 and dubbed as Collections #1 had approx. 770 […]
The main telecommunications companies in the U.S. pledged to stop selling their customer data, which has not happened yet Reports of cybersecurity and digital forensics experts from the International Institute of Cyber Security say that Ron Wyden, U.S. Senator, is promoting a campaign in the U.S. Congress to draft a law against the sale of […]
“It’s that time of the year again” when Holiday and Christmas scams target users around the world since millions of people are celebrating and buying gifts for friends and family. Most people prefer shopping online and that is where hackers and cybercriminals take full advantage of the situation and scam unsuspecting users. Here are some Holiday and Christmas scams you […]
Misconfigured ElasticSearch Servers Exposed Private Data of over 82 Million Users. A warning has been issued by Bob Diachenko, a HackenProof security researcher informing users in the US that around 73 gigabytes of data is identified in a “regular security audit” of publicly accessible servers on the Shodan IoT search engine. According to the researcher, […]
The company had to reset its users’ passwords due to the security incident Information security and digital forensics specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security reported that Dell, the technological giant, has been the victim of a security breach in which a hacker or group of hackers has tried to extract customers’ data right […]
Problems continue for the social network giant Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg keeps receiving bad news for underestimating a British parliamentary commission that has been investigating the impact of online misinformation on democracy for the most part of this year. According to information security and digital forensics specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security, this […]
The software company has suffered a data breach that would have compromised all the domain accounts OSIsoft has issued an alert on a security breach affecting employees, interns, consultants and contractors, as reported by information security and digital forensics specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security. The company offers real-time data management solutions; its […]
The vulnerability persisted on the Postal Service website for almost a year Cybersecurity and digital forensics specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security reported that the United States Postal Service has corrected a security vulnerability (ranked as critical), due to which data of over 60 million users who are registered on the usps.com website were exposed. […]
Some recommendations for compliance with the EU’s data security regulation As reported by information security and digital forensics specialists, all organizations that process personal data from residents of the European Community member countries must comply with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The GDPR main mission is to unify data protection measures between […]