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Passwords to UK's and Canada's Government Servers Exposed. Who's to Blame?
Hollywood would have you believe that you'd need quite a few things if you want to steal sensitive information from the governments of two of the World's biggest economic superpowers. You'd need thousands of dollars'...
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Twitter Offers a New Security Feature After 330 Million Passwords Are Leaked
When more than 330 million Twitter users were affected by a system bug back in May, one of the biggest social media networks got lucky. The bug was found within the system, and it wasn't induced by outside forces. As...
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Instagram Users Get Locked out After an Unexplained Russian Hack
Quite a few Instagram users have had their accounts hijacked. It's not a selection of separate incidents. It seems to be a coordinated campaign that, by the looks of things, is carried out by the same group of...
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New iPhones Could Be Delayed After Apple Chip Maker Suffers Malware Outbreak
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), one of the biggest semiconductor manufacturers in the world, got hit by what has been described as a malware outbreak on August 3 which forced it to temporarily halt...
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Social Media Monitoring App Mention Blames Third-Party for a Recent Data Breach
Data breaches are an unfortunate fact of life. Some companies don't take the security of your data seriously enough and are easy prey for hackers. Other organizations work hard to protect users' personal information,...
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Surprise! Most Data Breaches Occur Due to Human Error
Even though a lot of data breaches are carried out by cybercriminals, the recent statistics show a considerable part of such incidents occur because of failures happening inside the companies who store sensitive user...
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Should You Quit Facebook Because of Its Recent Talks with Major US Banks?
What is Facebook exactly? Some would say that it's a brilliant way of communicating with people, discussing interesting topics, and sharing fun memories and cat videos. Others will say that Facebook is a viciously...
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2018's Most Common Cyber Attacks You Should Know About
Cyber attacks are more common that you might think. We have quite a few months to go before the year is over and we can start assessing cyber attacks of 2018; however, we know for a fact that 2017 was the worst year...
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The New National Data Encryption Rules May Be Enforced Soon
As some of you may have heard, Ted Lieu, Mike Bishop, Suzan DelBene, and Jim Jordan, members of the United States Congress, recently presented a bill called the ENCRYPT Act. The idea of it is to create national data...
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New WPA2 Attack Discovered by Accident. Here's What You Need to Know.
For years, we all thought that when it comes to the security of a wireless network, WPA2 is just about unbeatable. WPA2, as you may know, is the second incarnation of the Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) protocol which...
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Sears Delta Breach Among the Biggest Data Breaches in 2018
Poor safety practices of companies and their customers continue allowing major data breaches in 2018, and the joint data breach of Sears and Delta might be one of the biggest ones we will see this year. Although the...
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Yale Graduates Learn That Their Social Security Numbers Were Leaked 10 Years Ago
In the event of physical theft, you will most likely notice that your TV is missing. When it comes to the World Wide Web, however, things are a bit different. We've talked in the past about how data breaches often go...
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Microsoft Edge Finally Adds WebAuthn Support: What Is Web Authentication?
Microsoft's own Bill Gates declared in 2004 that the password is dead. Embarrassingly for what is undoubtedly one of Silicon Valley's most influential figures, after fourteen years, the password still seems to be very...
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Reddit Data Breach Exposed. What Do Reddit Users Need to Do Now?
Reddit was recently the sixth most popular website in the world according to Alexa. It has more than 1.5 billion monthly visits which shows that for many people, it's the perfect place for anything from discussing...
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LifeLock Bug: Millions of Email Addresses Were Left out in the Open
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Even Security Professionals Continue to Reuse Passwords, Study Finds
We can only imagine that being a security expert is not easy. You spend years trying to tell people that they should really start taking their online safety seriously, and yet, the constant barrage of successful...
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Will Fraudulent Activity Be Monitored on the Internet After the End of Net Neutrality?
Net Neutrality. What is it exactly and how does it impact our day-to-day activities? Net Neutrality. You've all heard all the noise about net neutrality, but what is it, exactly? Well, it's a long, boring story, but...
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A New Text Message Scam Targets PayPal Users in the UK
Last week, we explained what smishing is and how it works. Today, we're going to see the attack in action, analyze it, and learn what we can do to avoid falling victim to it. Casting the net Reported by Tech.co, it...
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