Twitter CEO’s own Twitter account was hacked
Last week, the Twitter account of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey was hacked by a group that calls themselves the Chuckle Squad. The security breach did not last very long, thankfully, but the unauthorized...
View ArticleCamScanner to take AdHub to court for inserting malware in the app
CamScanner, a popular application that allows users to scan images of documents and save them as PDF files, said in a statement that they will take AdHub to court after the third-party advertising...
View ArticleHere’s why the FTC slapped Youtube with $170M fine and what it means to your...
The Federal Trade Commission wants Google, which owns the popular video streaming platform, Youtube, to change their policy on how they handle the information of children they collect from the...
View ArticleHuawei accuses Trump admin of cyberattacks to sabotage them
Huawei accuses the Trump administration of carrying out cyberattacks against its intranet and internet information servers and exhausting judicial and administrative powers to derail and sabotage the...
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Facebook Dating and privacy: why users call it ‘creepy’
Today, Facebook has officially launched Facebook Dating in the U.S. after a series of tests in other territories; however, the supposedly cute and romantic intention of the company did not get warm...
View ArticleData breach exposed data of 16M Ecuador citizens including Julian Assange
An Eslasticsearch database has been discovered and the data breach leaked sensitive and personally identifiable information from the majority of the population in Ecuador, a small South American...
View ArticleHacker exploit can spy on your phone via your SIM card
AdativeMobile had just announced in its official blog the existence of a long-time exploit that might have been snooping on mobile phones for a couple of years now. It is officially designated as...
View ArticleUsers now need to opt-in before Google can save Google Assistant recordings
After coming under fire for admitting that human reviewers are listening to “snippets” of recordings from Google Assistant, the San Francisco tech giant stopped the potentially invasive practice by...
View ArticleNorth Korean hackers are using malware to attack Indian ATMs
Cases of Indian ATMs being infected with specific malware has been growing over the past few weeks. ATMDtrack, as it was officially designated, have supposedly been targeting various financial...
View ArticleiOS 13 still has bugs even after they fixed some in iOS 13.1
A week after Apple has released its much-awaited iOS 13 updates for its devices, the company issued yet another warning that there is a bug in the new operating system that could allow third-party...
View ArticleUS to install ‘virtual wall’ to stop drug-carrying drones from entering the...
The U.S. government partnered with Citadel Defense, a counter-drone technology company, to build a “virtual wall” that prevents drones carrying drugs, contrabands, and other illegal objects into the...
View ArticleTurkish dating app, Heyyo, exposed sexual orientation and dating behavior of...
A team of cybersecurity experts has discovered an unprotected online database that exposes not only personally identifiable information of more than 70,000 individuals but also leaks their dating...
View ArticleiPhone’s formerly long-time unknown bug seems unpatchable
Long-time iOS expert and the developer of the original jailbreaking software for older iPhones has posted a tweet today that details a relatively old bug on iPhones. This bug, which has just now been...
View ArticleAmazon will still listen to your Alexa recordings
Amidst the backlash that tech giants like Amazon, Google, and Apple have received after they are caught storing the recordings made by their respective personal Assistant AIs and using human language...
View ArticleMicrosoft becomes unlikely ally against federal data secrecy
Microsoft gave a stern declaration earlier this week in its official blog that details the company’s disapproval of certain law enforcement agency policies, especially when it comes to requesting user...
View ArticleHacker accessed data of 4.9M DoorDash customers and partners
Popular food delivery start-up, DoorDash, is once again in hot water after a hacker has gained access to its database and compromised the data of more than four million of the company’s customers,...
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Unlocking phones tomorrow might just be an ear away
A new innovative breakthrough at the University at Buffalo shows that biometric authorization can be achieved using another unique aspect of the human body — one’s own ear canal. Ear-worn audio...
View ArticleData breaches involving hospitals could lead to identity theft, financial...
A new research study has revealed the extent of damage when hospitals and other medical institutions suffer a data breach. The researchers said that patients whose data will be included in the...
View ArticleSenate passes law to oblige DHS to respond to ransomware attacks
Lawmakers in the U.S. Senate has passed new law that would compel the government to issue bigger support to organizations that have fallen victims to different ransomware attacks. The DHS Cyber Hunt...
View ArticleWhatsApp patched a bug that could be exploited using GIFs
The facebook-owned messaging app, WhatsApp, patched up an exploitable vulnerability that could allow an attacker to run a Remote Code Execution (RCE) by sending a malicious GIF to targeted WhatsApp...
View ArticlePhishing campaigns grew 400% in first half of 2019
Phishing campaigns have grown more than 400% from January to June in 2019, and attackers are becoming more sophisticated in their tactics by using a trusted domain and designing their fake web pages...
View ArticleTwitter admits using 2FA phone numbers and emails to serve targeted ads
The micro-blogging site, Twitter, admitted that it has allowed advertisers to use the personal information uploaded by users for their two-factor authentication (2FA) such as email address and phone...
View ArticleApple sends browser data to Chinese tech giant, Tencent
Apple has silently included a new line in its Privacy & Security tab under Safari where it indicates that it will be sending browser data to the Chinese tech giant, Tencent. The information was...
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Two cashback sites leaked data of 3.5 million users
Two popular cashback services have leaked nearly two terabytes worth of personally identifiable information (PII) and account data in an unprotected Elastic database. The two cashback websites have...
View ArticleHackers are selling Jackpotting Malware that ejects cash from ATMs for $1000...
Joint investigative work has uncovered that a new strain of malware has been deployed in the wild, which aims to rob banks by tricking ATM systems into ejecting all the money it contains. The attack...
View ArticleNine zero-day vulnerabilities found in Android VoIP
At least nine zero-day vulnerabilities were discovered by Chinese bug bounty researchers that exists in the more recent versions of Android OS. The vulnerabilities specifically target the VoIP...
View ArticleRussian ‘Cozy Bear’ hackers are back in the wild
After being away from the public eye for the past three years, cybersecurity experts have once again spotted the notorious Cozy Bear hackers in the wild; this time, they have rebuilt their arsenal and...
View ArticleStolen credit card data seller BriansClub, hacked
In a matter of poetic justice, an online fraud bazaar that is known to be selling stolen credit card data, BriansClub, has been hacked, revealing more than 26 million credit and debit card records,...
View ArticleHow to remove yourself off the Internet?
A Twitter user going by the name Liam has made a thread on how an average person can remove 99.9% of his or her digital footprint from the Internet, which has called the attention over whether or not...
View ArticleZappos data breach settlement is insulting
The seven-year-long class action suit against Zappos, an e-commerce site owned by Amazon, is about to end with a settlement agreement between the company and the victims of the data breach that has...
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SnapTube discovered faking ad clicks and defrauding 40M users
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged more than 70 million advertising clicks submitted by the popular video downloading app called SnapTube because those clicks were apparently non-human,...
View Article7 Million Adobe Creative Cloud Users Could Be Exposed To Phishing Attacks
At least seven million people were put at risk of possible phishing campaigns after their personal data, and email addresses were exposed in an unprotected database owned by the popular graphic and...
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Facebook takes web hosts to court for hosting phishing sites
Social media giant, Facebook, edges its crackdown against sites that sell hacking tools and phishing kits that can be used to target the platform. This time, Facebook is taking the domain hosts where...
View Article‘I’ll Be Back’ Attack: the biggest cyber-attack in Georgia
Multiple targets, including some TV sites, government and court websites, and businesses around Georgia, have been attacked by a cyber-attack, which led to thousands of sites going offline and...
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xHelper Android malware re-installs itself after factory reset
A new strain of Android malware called “xHelper” has been spotted and is currently earning notoriety among cybersecurity experts and users as it has already targetted 32,000 devices by August, which...
View ArticleBitcoin trading platform, BitMex, reset all user passwords after data breach
Seychelles-based bitcoin futures exchange BitMEX initiated a mandatory password reset to all users of the crypto exchange and trading platform. The company decided to do the necessary after receiving...
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Chinese Hackers APT41 uses MessageTap Malware to read people’s SMS
A group of hackers — known to be commissioned by the Chinese government to carry out sophisticated cybercrimes and cyber espionage campaigns — have been tapping into the servers of telecommunication...
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Asus router app data breach exposes info of Alexa users
Alexa users around the world have had their data compromised after an Asus wi-fi controller app has leaked information in an unprotected Elasticsearch database, a report from the cybersecurity experts...
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Researchers discover DarkUniverse hacking group
Cybersecurity researchers discovered a new advanced persistent threat (APT) organization by analyzing one of the most significant security breaches in the U.S. National Security Agency history. Dubbed...
View ArticleCalifornia DMV Exposed More Than 3,200 Drivers’ Social Security Info
More than 3,200 Californians had their Social Security information leaked to several federal agencies after the California Department of Motor Vehicles admitted on Tuesday that they had suffered a...
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IronMarch exposed: mysterious hacker leaks neo-nazi forum database
Different entities including law enforcement in the United States and other parts of the world are currently analyzing the contents of the neo-nazi forum after a mysterious hacker have publicly...
View ArticlePotential Facebook vulnerability on iOS 13.2.2 opens camera without...
A potential technical security bug has been spotted affecting Facebook users using iOS devices. The possible bug, specifically persistent in applications run through iOS 13.2.2 version of the...
View ArticleFTC settlement with spyware company Retina-X is an oxymoron
For quite some time, a tech company called Retina-X has been developing and selling stalkerware applications that are marketed as a way for parents and employers to track and “spy” on their children...
View ArticleWeekly Cybersecurity Round-Up
The state of cybersecurity in the world has been deteriorating year after year. However, last week proved that while malicious actors are lurking behind the shadows of the internet, there will always...
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Buran ransomware is being sold for a discount
The Buran Ransomware, a newly discovered strain of malware has been found to be marketed as a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) among cybercriminal communities, and the developers of the malicious...
View ArticleBots will take down voting systems ahead of 2020 elections, expert predicts
By 2020, the internet bots are expected to “become increasingly sophisticated” in its operations in mimicking the human online behaviour but could also affect e-commerce and IoT, an expert said. The...
View ArticleFacebook finally fixes bug that opens camera while using app
Facebook has finally fixed the bug that accidentally opens the camera of the users and runs it in the background as users scroll through the popular social media application. The tech giant said that...
View ArticleFTC sues InfoTrax Systems for data breach affecting 1M users
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) takes InfoTrax Systems to court for its alleged failure to protect the data entrusted to them by their client after a series of intrusions that have scraped...
View ArticleData breach is linked to more heart attack deaths in hospitals
Researchers were able to correlate data breach that have affected hospitals across the United States and the uptick in the fatality rates and heart attack response rate in the hospitals that...
View Article‘Tarmac’ malware hits Mac computers through malvertising
Mac computers are thought to be one of the most secure personal computers in the market. However, a new malware has proved contrary to the claim after researchers have found a malvertising strain that...
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