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Reddit says the breach took place after hackers intercepted SMS that were supposed to be delivered to employees. The social media giant Reddit has announced that it has suffered a data breach in which attackers hacked into its system and ended up stealing data of its registered users including emails and encrypted passwords. Reddit discovered the […]
Security cameras and other IoT devices have been frequently identified to be incompetent and plagued with a variety of built-in flaws that render them vulnerable to exploitation by hackers. The same has been proven yet again by a team of security researchers from Pen Test Partners. Researchers Andrew Tierney, Chris Wade, and Ken Munro participated […]
LifeLock, an Arizona-based identity theft protection firm may have exposed email addresses of millions of its customers – Simply put: A firm vowing to protect online identity of its customers may have exposed their identity to malicious hackers and cybercriminals. It happened due to a critical vulnerability which exposed LifeLock’s customers to phishing and identity […]
The IT security researchers at cyber resilience firm Upguard discovered a massive trove of highly sensitive data publically available to be accessed by anyone. The data belonged to hundreds of automotive giants including Tesla, Ford, Toyota, GM, Fiat, ThyssenKrupp, and Volkswagen – Thanks to a publically exposed server owned by Level One Robotics, a Canadian firm providing industrial automation services. The data […]
SingHealth, the largest health care institution in Singapore has suffered a massive data breach in which records of over 1.5 million patients who visited SingHealth’s polyclinics and clinics between from May 1, 2015, to July 4 this year – One of the victims of the breach is the Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong while prescription details of 160,000 patients including […]
The aviation industry is growing, thanks to millions of passengers traveling around the world. According to Statista, in 2017, 36.8 million flights were operated worldwide while the Bureau of Transportation Statistics revealed [PDF] that in 2017, U.S.-based airlines transported over 746 million passengers to and from airports across the country. For the airports, it is an opportunity to take advantage of […]
Are any of our online activities private anymore? That’s the question many people asked after news broke that third-party developers read portions of Gmail messages — and sometimes entire conversations. This practice affects millions of inboxes — and people who signed up to get service-related emails such as automated travel planning information or material about […]
About a week ago, HackRead reported that the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay (TPB) has been secretly using its visitors’ computing power (CPU) to mine cryptocurrency without their consent. Here, it’s noteworthy that The Pirate Bay did the same twice last year. However, now, the website has publically acknowledged the practice by deciding […]
This unique map called WiFox shows free WiFi spots along with their passwords for airport passengers so you can kill time before the flight. You know when you miss your flight or when there is a delay in the flight, and there is nothing you can do but sit at the airport and wait for […]
The National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom has suffered a data breach in which sensitive health-related data of over 150,000 patients have been exposed. The data breach took place due to a coding error in the software used by GPs, TPP’s SystmOne and affected patients who did not opt-in to share their data that NHS […]
Most batteries in today’s smartphone are intelligent enough to detect how people use their phones and employ power-saving technologies that result in longer battery life. That advantage sounds excellent all around, but recent research suggests those smart batteries could be used by hackers to learn about smartphone users. An Easily Orchestrated Hack The researchers who […]
According to Big Brother Watch, a British privacy advocate, and civil liberties organization, the Voice ID system of HMRC (Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs) has stored voice records of over 5.1 million British citizens – All that without their consent or knowledge. The voice collection saga began in January last year when HMRC launched a service called Voice ID aiming at […]
If you thought you have seen it all then you were wrong. In fact, thanks to Google Maps there are plenty of places that are kept hidden from the public view – It is also a fact that Google Maps has deliberately hidden these places. But why? The reason for this censorship is mostly unknown, however, there […]
The social media giant Facebook said on Thursday that a critical bug exposed private posts of 14 million users to the public – Simply put: Facebook users who choose their posts to be displayed to the people on their list had exposed their posts to outsiders and anyone could see what was being shared or published on the timeline. According to […]
The data collection is not limited to Facebook but also targets browsing history, including all the regular and sponsored Facebook posts, tweets, YouTube videos, and ads. Facebook is undoubtedly the number one social media website in the world and home to personal data of over 2.19 billion users worldwide – That makes it a lucrative target for […]
A large number of information security experts are betting on a future with a great presence of voice assistants fed by artificial intelligence. Digital beings that would help us answer questions and make our lives easier. Although there is still a long way to go before this, in the Google Assistant and Amazon’s Alexa we can see […]
Location tracking firm “LocationSmart” has been caught putting the physical security of US citizens at risk and its data collection tactics have opened a new pandora box. A United States-based location-as-a-service (LaaS) firm “LocationSmart” known for providing real-time location data of cellphones users in the country has been caught leaking that information due to a vulnerability in […]
A cell phone tracking service called LocationSmart has been reportedly leaking real-time location data on millions of mobile phone customers across North America. Exploiting a bug in its website, anyone could track the location of US cell phone users without obtaining their consent. This bug was spotted by Robert Xiao, a Carnegie Mellon University researcher, in […]
We all are well-aware of the pervasive ways governments employ to spy upon its citizens and there is a proper system in place to deal with such methods. Such as, to allow surveillance; law enforcement authorities are required by law to provide a warrant to the cellphone companies in order to obtain data. But how to […]
The word Cambridge now reminds most of us about Cambridge Analytica and Alexandr Kogan. A report from New Scientist reveals that there was another data collection project, conducted by University of Cambridge’s Psychometrics Centre, to conduct personality tests and source the data of Facebook users through the app called myPersonality. The project doesn’t have any […]
On May 3rd, 2018, Russia’s media and communication regularity authority Roskomnadzor blocked over 50 virtual private networks (VPNs), Web Proxies and Anonymizers in the country amid its crackdown against the Telegram messaging service. So far, there has been no official announcement from Roskomnadzor but the Russian News Agency TASS has confirmed the censorship and reported that the decision affects those services […]