Tag: Users

April 27, 2018

In an attempt to steal financial data, the attack bribes users with coupons in exchange for taking an online quiz. A new phishing campaign was discovered sending more than 550 million emails within the first quarter of 2018, according to […]

January 16, 2018

Four malicious Chrome extensions may have impacted more than half million users likely to conduct click fraud or black search engine optimization. More than half million users may have been infected by four malicious Chrome extensions that were likely used […]

December 27, 2017

A file containing hundreds of thousands of RootsWeb users’ email, login information, and passwords was found externally exposed, genealogy site says. Ancestry’s RootsWeb.com server, which hosts a free genealogical community site, exposed a file containing emails, login information, and passwords […]

December 4, 2017

Google is stepping its fight against unwanted and harmful applications on Android and will soon alert users on apps and websites leading to apps that collect personal data without their consent. Produced by Google Safe Browsing, the alerts will start […]

November 23, 2017

The theft of the personal data of 57 million Uber riders and drivers highlights how vulnerable we make ourselves when we install apps on our mobile phones and tablet computers. What happened? Uber chief executive Dara Khosrowshahi said Tuesday that […]

October 9, 2017

Commenting service Disqus informed customers on Friday of a data breach that apparently occurred back in 2012 and which affected roughly 17.5 million user accounts. Disqus learned of the breach from Troy Hunt, the Australian security expert who created the […]

July 25, 2017

After introducing the product at the Google I/O conference in May, Google has now made its Play Protect security services available to all Android users. Play Protect was designed to combine various Android security services, including Verify Apps and Bouncer, […]

February 22, 2017

Ask a security professional about infosec challenges, and you’ll get an earful of complaints about everyone else: Users click on bad links and open attachments, developers release buggy code, IT lags in applying software patches, the C-suite doesn’t understand security […]

January 18, 2017

Smart cities are redefining the way we live and work. Blending cutting edge IoT technologies with virtualization, big data, cloud and more, they represent an urgent and ongoing attempt to overcome the challenges associated with rapid urbanization. There’s just one […]

January 4, 2017

When it comes to privacy, folks have learned to watch Uber like a hawk. This turns out to be useful even when Uber (apparently) turns out to be innocent. Case in point: the way Uber’s iOS app (3.222.4 and higher) […]

December 21, 2016

Yahoo breaches have become similar to Adobe Flash patches – one seems to hear about them endlessly. The company strives to explain and investigate. Yet there is even more to add to the damage report as time goes by. On […]

December 20, 2016

Confidential financial data worth tens of millions of about 350 Ameriprise clients were exposed unwittingly by one of its financial advisors while taking a back-up on an Internet-connected drive at home, reports ZDNet. The discovery, by security researcher Chris Vickery […]

December 14, 2016

Fast food giant has emailed all 1.2 million members of its loyalty scheme, urging them to change their passwords after its recent data breach. KFC has confirmed that data belonging to members of its Colonel’s Club card loyalty scheme may […]

December 2, 2016

When security experts warned us that Mirai-infected connected devices would strike again, and 10-fold, they weren’t kidding. Almost 1 million internet users in Europe couldn’t get online this weekend following an organized cyberattack launched by 900,000 home routers exploited by […]

November 25, 2016

Most of the effort spent on making passwords stronger is wasted, according to a trio of researchers from Microsoft in the USA and Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. The researchers, Dinei Florêncio, Cormac Herley and Paul C. van Oorschot, said […]

October 20, 2016

A new Xirrus survey highlights users’ habits and perceptions of risk when connecting to public Wi-Fi. The survey polled more than 2,000 business users, including executives and IT professionals, and found that while 91 percent of respondents do not believe […]

October 10, 2016

Spotify users have been targeted by a malvertising campaign, the malicious advertising served to the victims could automatically open a web browser and redirect victims websites hosting malware. Spotify is a popular online music service that allows its users to listen […]

October 10, 2016

The information security industry is not approaching awareness in a way that has a positive effect on user behavior, according to independent cyber security consultant Jessica Barker. “The security industry is letting people down in raising awareness in a way […]

October 6, 2016

Yahoo has called a Reuters article about a secret email scanning program “misleading,” and said no such system exists. On Tuesday, the Reuters article claimed that Yahoo had created the custom software program after receiving a classified U.S. government order. […]

September 30, 2016

n January 2015, experts claimed that Apple is not able to read messages sent between devices through iMessages, but reported that the company but it is still able to access data in the backups. Apple has always confirmed that attackers cannot […]