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CryptoCore Hackers Target Password Manager Accounts
Yesterday, cybersecurity company ClearSky published a report on a hacking group called CryptoCore. Also known as Dangerous Password and Leery Turtle, the gang is allegedly located in Eastern Europe, and its actions... Read more
Customers' Cybersecurity Under Threat After Avon Reports a 'Cyber Incident'
In the aftermath of a cyberattack, the targeted company needs to quickly disclose as many details as possible. It needs to explain what sort of attack it's been through, who might be affected, and what the... Read more
Human Error Becomes GDPR Data Breach Trend in 2020
Human error has been widely reported to have caused 90% of cyber data breaches in 2019. Information provided by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has lead security experts to believe that nine out of ten... Read more
Here's How Bitcoin Scammers Were Able to Hijack 3 YouTube Channels to Impersonate SpaceX
You'd think that online scams would have a relatively short lifespan nowadays. Information travels fast, and people quickly learn of the threats that lurk around every corner of the internet. That's the theory, but in... Read more
Cybercriminals Used a Fake Form to Steal Fitness Depot Customers' Information
The COVID-19 pandemic means that many people have a lot of free time and one fewer excuse for not working out. The gyms are closed, but there are plenty of online shops that sell fitness equipment and enable people to... Read more
Android Users Are Warned to Watch out for MonitorMinor, an Aggressive Monitoring Tool
There is a line between watching over and stalking someone. Android users ought to know that a monitoring tool called MonitorMinor that is supposed to help parents supervise their children has crossed that line.... Read more
Twitter Is 'Very Sorry' After the Latest Data Breach That Affected Business Clients
With more than 300 million active users, Twitter is one of the most popular social networks in the world. The fact that some of its business clients might have had their data exposed sounds like massive news, but... Read more
A Data Breach at a Live Event Equipment Manufacturer Reveals Employees' Personal and Financial Data
Last week, TAIT Towers Manufacturing LLC, a manufacturer of equipment for live events and concerts that has worked with the likes of Lady Gaga and Taylor Swift, issued one of those statements where it has to explain... Read more
Keepnet Labs Confirms That 5 Billion Email Addresses and Passwords Collated From Previous Data Breaches Were Exposed
A database with five billion records full of usernames and passwords was exposed to the internet and was not protected by any form of authentication. Predictably, the incident grabbed more than a few headlines,... Read more
An Additional 140,000 User Accounts Were Exposed in Nintendo's April Data Breach
In the aftermath of a data breach, companies need to determine how many users were affected and disclose the attackers' modus operandi. That way, people will have a clear understanding of the scale of the breach and... Read more
What Is Zoombombing and How to Protect Yourself Against It?
Zoom was popular before, but its usage and value has risen even more because of the required or advised social distancing that is said to help slow the spread of COVID-19. Zoom allows to make 40 minutes-long video... Read more
Access to Doorbell Cameras Can Be Maintained Even After a Password Change, Florida Student Discovers
A recent study showed that when it comes to online accounts, users aren't that keen on changing their passwords, even when there's evidence that their login data may have been compromised. They're clearly not... Read more
As the Premier League Returns, Football Fans Must Assess the Strength of Their Passwords
Last week, the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), the cybersecurity branch of the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), urged football (or soccer) fans to review their passwords and think about the... Read more
More Than 20 Million Files Have Been Leaked by 9 Different Dating Apps
To prove how dangerous unsecured databases could be, a group of researchers recently filled an Elasticsearch installation with dummy data, deliberately misconfigured it, and waited to see how long it would take for... Read more
Patients' Social Security Numbers Have Been Compromised in a MU Health Care Data Breach
People tend to forget that the most important task after discovering a data breach is protecting the user's privacy. Instead, they often focus on finding out who or what is to blame for the incident. Let's take this... Read more
Kentucky Employees' Health Plan Is Blaming the Latest Data Breach on Password Reuse
The Kentucky Employees' Health Plan (KEHP), an organization that offers health insurance to more than a quarter of a million members, has partnered with StayWell, an easy-to-follow online program that is supposed to... Read more
The UK Government Employees Lose Thousands of Mobile Devices Per Year
If you are a government employee, there is a good chance that you have both personal-use and work-use phones, tablets, flash drives, and other mobile devices. Depending on how many devices you own and how they are... Read more
The 2020 Olympics Might Have Been Postponed, but Olympics Scams Have Not
You might have heard already that the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games have been postponed. This is the first time in the history of the Olympiad that the event has been postponed, but the ongoing fight with the COVID-19... Read more
