Experts urge users to secure accounts and passwords after breach exposes personal details of more than 500 million people Australians are being urged to secure their social media accounts after the details of more than 500 million global Facebook users were found online in a massive data breach. The …
Microsoft has fixed a vulnerability in the PsExec utility that allows local users to gain elevated privileges on Windows devices. [...]
Yesterday, a researcher disclosed a method of hiding up to three MB of data inside a Twitter image. In his demonstration, the researcher showed both MP3 audio files and ZIP archives contained within the PNG images hosted on Twitter. [...]
Streaming service tests feature that asks viewers if they share household with subscriber Netflix has begun testing a feature that asks viewers whether they share a household with a subscriber, in a move that could lead to crackdown on the widespread practice of sharing passwords among friends and family …
OVH founder and chairman Octave Klaba has provided a plausible explanation for the fire that burned down OVH data centers in Strasbourg, France. [...]
Today, researchers have exposed common weaknesses lurking in the latest smart sex toys that can be exploited by attackers. As more as more adult toy brands enter the market, and COVID-19 situation has led to a rapid increase in sex toy sales, researchers believe a discussion around the security …
Today, researchers have exposed common weaknesses lurking in the latest smart sex toys that can be exploited by attackers. As more as more adult toy brands enter the market, and COVID-19 situation has led to a rapid increase in sex toy sales, researchers believe a discussion around the security …
In a major unprecedented incident, data centers of OVH located in Strasbourg, France have been destroyed by fire. Customers are being advised by the company to enact their disaster recovery plans after the fire has rendered multiple data centers unserviceable, impacting websites around the world. [...]
Hackers gained access to live surveillance cameras installed at Tesla, Equinox, healthcare clinics, jails, and banks, including the Bank of Utah. [...]
Incident prompts fears for latest Silicon Valley craze’s ability to guarantee users’ security and privacy Clubhouse, the audio-chatroom app that has emerged as the latest craze to consume Silicon Valley, has shut down a site that was rebroadcasting the platform’s content, renewing concerns over the service’s …
This week, hundreds of new packages have been published to the npm open-source repository named after private components being internally used by major companies. These npm packages are identical to the proof-of-concept packages created by Alex Birsan, the researcher who had recently managed to infiltrate over major 35 tech …
Genetic testing company with 10 million customers’ data has ‘huge cybersecurity implications’ The genetic testing company 23andMe will go public through a partnership with a firm backed by the billionaire Richard Branson, in a deal that has raised fresh privacy questions about the information of millions of customers. Launched …
Fortinet has fixed multiple severe vulnerabilities impacting its products. The vulnerabilities range from Remote Code Execution to SQL Injection, to Denial of Service (DoS) and impact the FortiProxy SSL VPN and FortiWeb Web Application Firewall (WAF) products. [...]
Investigation launched after teachers warn of worm on devices handed out for home schooling Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage The government has launched an investigation into reports that laptops it distributed to support vulnerable children during lockdown had been infected with malware connected to Russian servers …
The privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo continues to grow rapidly as the company reached 102M daily search queries for the first time in January. [...]
An unpatched zero-day in Microsoft Windows 10 allows attackers to corrupt an NTFS-formatted hard drive with a one-line command. [...]
Kaspersky investigators uncover evidence that may support US claims Moscow was behind attack A Moscow-based cybersecurity company has reported that some of the malicious code employed against the US government in a cyber-attack last month overlaps with code previously used by suspected Russian hackers. The findings by Kaspersky investigators …