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Why Is Facebook Asking for Email Passwords?
How much does Facebook know about you? Different people will give different answers. If you don't have a Facebook account, for example, you are likely to say that the world's largest social network knows nothing about...
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Toyota Reveals a Second Major Data Breach Within Two Months
As you probably know, when a company with millions of customers issues an official announcement that contains the statement 'we take security very seriously', the said company has most likely been a victim of a...
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Small Businesses Become the Favorite Target of Cyber Criminals Looking for Identity Records
Like it or not, cybercriminals breach online services every day and steal personal information of millions of regular users like you. The data is later sold for a profit and/or abused it in a variety of different...
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Beware of Malware That Is Spread via LinkedIn DMs
There seems to be not a single platform that hackers and cyber attackers are not ready to exploit. They can expose you to malware via your own email inbox. They can create fictitious websites to expose you to scams....
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Hacker Gnosticplayers Puts His Fourth Batch of 26.42 Million Passwords on the Dark Web
A little over a month ago, a cybercriminal used Dream Market, a dark web marketplace, to try and sell just under 620 million user records stolen from a total of 16 websites and apps. The criminal in question goes by...
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A Misconfigured Firewall Exposed the Data of Hundreds of Thousands of Gearbest Customers
Noam Rotem is half of the duo of security researchers that recently discovered the data leak affecting the users of a Middle Eastern Caller ID application. In early March, he was called in to help investigate another...
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How Apple's Anti-Snooping Technology Can Protect iPhone Users' Privacy
Let's imagine for a second that you have done some things that you shouldn't have done. The police would very much like to have a word with you, and they're interested in who you speak to over the phone as well as...
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63red Safe's Backend API Leaks Users' Data
It seems that the more we urge people to be tolerant towards each other, the more they refuse to do it. Indeed, it's not unusual to hear people complain about being discriminated based on anything from skin color to...
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20K Employees of Swiss Authorities Found in the 'Collections' Data Dump
In January, security specialist Troy Hunt analyzed a data dump of more than 770 million email addresses and 21 million passwords that was traded for free on hacking forums. The database had been compiled from hundreds...
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Hackers Steal Applicant Data from Three US Colleges
Last week, applicants for three US colleges – Hamilton in New York, Oberlin in Ohio, and Grinnell in Iowa – started receiving some strange emails. On the face of it, the messages looked like they were coming from the...
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Citrix's Internal Network Hacked After a Password Spraying Attack
A data breach is never good news, but some incidents are definitely worse than others. If, for example, a small internet forum for DIY enthusiasts is hacked, the loot is not that great (some emails, possibly some...
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How Not Setting up a Password Led to the Exposure of 5 Million Dalil Users
Here's an interesting conundrum: you find out that a mobile application developer has misconfigured a database and is exposing the data of millions upon millions of people to the world wide web. You try to contact the...
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The World Wide Web Consortium and Fido Alliance Announce WebAuthn: What Does That Mean?
Usually, you're not presented with that many options when you're creating a new online account. You obviously have to create a password, and for most people, this means going down one of two routes – a simple,...
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Anyone Can Trace Your Facebook Profile Using Your Phone Number If You Do Not Hide It
Security experts' job is not easy. For years, they have been saying that people must turn on two-factor authentication (2FA) wherever possible. They have been arguing that it brings a level of security that a set of...
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Ursnif Trojan Was Resurrected and Now It Targets Your Passwords
Sometimes certain infections do not disappear for decades. Cyber criminals manage to customize their malicious codes and use them to steal information and money over and over again. Today we would like to draw your...
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Hundreds of Thousands of Passwords Are Stolen from Coinmama
When we switch from one asset to another, we expect it to work properly. For instance, if you choose to use a credit card over cash, you probably have your own reasons to prefer the former. Likewise, there are users...
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Soon, You Won't Need to Enter Passwords If You Use an Android 7 Device. Is That Safe?
On Monday, Google announced that very soon, virtually all devices running Android 7 and newer will be FIDO-certified. This, as you'll find out in a minute, is a massive piece of news, but we appreciate that at the...
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Hackers Have Found a Way to Attack Drupal, and That Can Affect Your Virtual Security Too
Drupal is the world's third most popular content management system (CMS). Out of context, this doesn't sound like that big of an achievement, but when you take into account the sheer vastness of the internet, you'll...
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