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FNB Decided to Disable Autofill for Passwords, but Then Immediately Changed Its Mind
Picking the bank that will take care of our personal finances is not a choice we make lightly. After all, we often give this organization our life savings, and we want to make sure that they are in safe hands. It's...
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WhatsApp Spyware Update: It Can Now Steal Your Data from Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Apple
Our mobile phones and computers store lots of personal and sensitive information, and it is not a secret that nowadays cybercriminals are incredibly interested in stealing such data. Thus, the need to secure data...
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Surprise, Surprise: In Addition to an Unreliable Service, MoviePass Also Offers Poor Security for Its Customers' Data
MoviePass could very well act as proof that not every good idea leads to success. The company was founded about eight years ago, and its business plan is based on what sounds like a brilliant concept. Subscribers pay...
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Equifax Is Finally Paying for the Massive Data Breach, and You Can Claim Your Share Too
Do you remember the massive Equifax data breach that shook the cybersecurity world back in 2017? There’s a follow-up story to this incident, now that Equifax seemingly is paying back its customers who were affected by...
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The Oyster Site Was Shut down Due to Password Recycling
So you wanted to get an Oyster card, top it up, or buy a season ticket, but when you tried to do so via the official website, you were not able to do it. Although the services are fully restored now, just a few days...
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Beware of an Amazon Phishing Scam That Attempts to Steal Login Credentials
Cybersecurity has taken major steps in recent months, with the systematic disassembly of multiple hacker collectives, take-downs of botnets and the development of anti-malware solutions that are currently stronger...
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Warning! Password-stealing Malware Attacks are Still on the Rise in 2019
Things are heating up again in the IT security sector. 2018 saw some notable changes done in that sector, with a few botnets neutralized, quite a few threats studied and countered by experts and quite a few hacker...
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A Breach at the Bio Star 2 Security Platform Exposed Millions of Fingerprint Records, Passwords, and Facial Recognition Data
Biometrics is now used for securing both physical and digital assets, and there is a very good reason for this. Authenticating users with the help of fingerprint readers or facial recognition systems is not only...
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Telefonica, Deutsche Telekom, and Vodafone Deutschland Drop Passwords. What Does That Mean?
The more the time goes by, the smaller the number of people willing to say that the traditional authentication mechanism that involves a username and a password is robust enough to protect our data in the twenty-first...
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Air New Zealand Falls Victim to a Phishing Attack
How difficult is it to steal data from an airline company that has more than 10 thousand employees, carries close to 16 million passengers every year, and operates a fleet of over 60 aircraft? As it turns out, it...
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A Security Vulnerability in Steam's Windows Client Puts Gamers at Risk
Many people who aren't entirely aware of how software works would be ready to start pulling their hair out if they hear that a major online gaming platform with millions of users suffers from a severe security...
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Thousands of Patients' Data Has Been Breached Thanks to Misconfigured Amazon S3 Buckets
Unfortunately, incidents where large and small companies leave vast amounts of personal data exposed to the internet because of poorly configured databases and servers are an everyday occurrence. Last month, for...
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23 Million Accounts Have Been Compromised in a CafePress Data Breach
CafePress is an online retailer that sells everything from stationery, through bedding, to hoodies with all sorts of exciting designs. It's been in the business for close to twenty years now, but at the moment it's in...
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A Mysterious Data Breach Exposed over 1 Million Payment Cards in South Korea in Just Two Months
Stolen personal data gets bought and sold on the dark web every single day. Monitoring these illegal markets and the trends that emerge on them is high on security companies' priority lists. This way, they can see...
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Dangerous Malware Came Pre-Installed on Android Phones, and No One Did Anything for Years
When you purchase a new smartphone, it always comes with plenty of apps pre-installed. These are meant to make your experience easy and fun from the get-go. Depending on the phone and the operating system running on...
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Capital One Was Hit by a Massive Data Breach - Here's What You Need to Know
If you've applied for a credit card at Capital One between 2005 and 2019, you are very likely to be affected by the data breach the US bank announced yesterday. Capital One admitted that a hacker has accessed copious...
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Private Data of 13,000 National Australia Bank Customers Was Exposed, but Passwords Were Spared
We keep saying that money isn't everything, but at the same time, there's little point in denying the fact that without money, our lives will be difficult. What's more, most of us work long and hard to earn our money,...
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What Does Nation-Sponsored Hacking Entail and Should You Be Worried About It?
In theory, probably everyone can imagine what a hacking process looks like. We might not know all the details, but we know that it is a malicious deed that can render the victims penniless and file-less. Worse, cyber...
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