Phishing scams keep getting smarter, making them difficult to spot
It’s a sad reality that phishing scams are becoming increasingly sophisticated, often making it hard for even savvy users to differentiate between legitimate messages and …
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Bombshell report reveals how location data from carriers often ends up in the wrong hands
A new bombshell report from Joseph Cox over at Motherboard details how carriers like Sprint, AT&T, and T-Mobile are all in the business of selling real-time …
New iPhone phishing scam is more sophisticated than ever
A new report from noted security expert Brian Krebs reveals that scammers looking to take advantage of unsuspecting Apple users are becoming incredibly clever and …
Popular Android apps keep sending your data to Facebook without consent
Facebook probably can’t wait for 2018 to end, a year that brought a garden variety of user privacy infringing issues for the world’s largest social …
The new wave of Netflix phishing attacks is so bad that the FTC issued a warning
The year may be drawing to a close but that doesn’t mean scammers are taking any time off for the holidays. A new bulletin issued …
How to check if your private photos were exposed due to Facebook’s latest bug
Facebook had to acknowledge another security issue late last week which impacted up to 6.8 million users. The bug exposed private photos, Facebook explained, allowing apps to …
Amazon patent hints at using doorbell cameras to build a suspicious persons database
Jacob Snow, a technology and civil liberties attorney for the ACLU, has been making the rounds telling media outlets that a newly publicized patent from …
British cops want to see if AI can prevent crimes, like ‘Minority Report’ in real life
Governments and entities around the world are starting to venture deep into Minority Report-land, giving serious attention to the use of artificial intelligence and scoring …
That customer service agent you’re chatting with might be watching you type in real time
Big Brother is watching you, and so it seems are many customer service agents you chat with online. Apparently, they can see what you type …
Marriott reveals that hackers accessed sensitive information of 500 million guests
Another day, another hack. As we referenced yesterday with respect to the Dunkin’ Donuts hack, it seems that we can’t even go a week without …
Dunkin’ Donuts warns that its DD Perks program may have been hacked
Despite the vast amount of resources companies typically spend on thwarting hacking, it seems that we can’t even go a few weeks without a new …
How to tell if the Amazon leak exposed your email and name to the public
Amazon on Wednesday morning issued email alerts to some of its customers whose names and emails were leaked on its website in what it described …
Apple makes it impossible for police to unlock iPhones with GrayKey devices
Apple fiercely opposes the idea of weakening iPhone encryption so that it could unlock devices for law enforcement agencies. But there are plenty of hackers …
Tim Cook calls on Bloomberg to retract story of alleged Supermicro hack
Earlier this month, Bloomberg published a bombshell report claiming that agents from a Chinese intelligence organization successfully planted malicious hardware on Supermicro servers that eventually …
Security firm reminds police not to look at iPhones equipped with Face ID
Now that the FBI and other law enforcement agencies have started forcing suspects to unlock their iPhones with Face ID, a forensics company is warning …
GAO report says nearly all new Pentagon weapons can be hacked with ease
A brief look at the news is enough for anyone to realize that cyber attacks are a real threat. Just recently, we’ve seen western governments …
Bloomberg reports bombshell Chinese hardware attack on US tech companies, met with swift denials
A bombshell report claims that China has been developing a massive spying operation for a few years that involved building hardware backdoors into critical server …
Be careful downloading ‘Fortnite’ cheats: Some contain malware
Fortnite is such a massive phenomenon that hackers have started targeting players with malware that’s able to steal personal data including Bitcoin wallet information that …
Hacker promises to take down Zuckerberg’s Facebook page as you watch live
If you don’t have anything better to do on Sunday morning, and I do mean really early on Sunday, you may as well tune in …
A top macOS app is stealing users’ browsing history and sending it to China
One of the oldest and most transparent malware tricks is the fake antivirus program, which gullible users are prompted to download with panicked banner ads …
Mobile app that spies on people leaked customer payment records, karmic balance restored
A mobile app that can help people spy on Android and iPhone users, whether they’re spouses or children, has leaked millions of sensitive records, including …
The redesigned Chrome browser might stop you from using the same password everywhere
In celebration of its 10-year anniversary, Google released the Chrome browser redesign we’ve been waiting for. That’s version 69, if you haven’t updated Chrome on …
Hackers can steal your Android unlock pattern by turning your phone into a sonar system
New research from researchers in Sweden and the UK reveals that hackers would be able to steal the unlock pattern of your Android phone by …
Google just launched the two-factor authenticator dongle you’ve been waiting for
Google on Thursday unveiled the Titan Security Key, a two-factor authentication (2FA) token that should improve your security and make it harder, if not impossible, …
Yahoo is still reading some of your emails
It’s not unheard of for email service providers to read users’ emails to target them with better-tailored ads that would help the company make more …
Of course the Fortnite installer for Android shipped with a massive security flaw
In the weeks leading to the Fortnite for Android launch, we learned that Epic Games didn’t want to make the game available the traditional way …
T-Mobile admits hackers stole customer data in major security breach
In a statement Friday, T-Mobile admitted that hackers have breached its systems and stole customer data, including names, addresses, account numbers, and billing zip codes. …
Of course Russia denies Microsoft’s claim that Russian hackers are attacking the upcoming elections
Russia has always maintained it did not interfere in the 2016 US presidential elections, in spite of significant evidence that says otherwise. And Russia continues …
Google’s built-in malware protection for Android is literally the worst
Google has been improving its Android anti-malware protections for years, but that doesn’t mean its built-in tool to handle and prevent malware attacks is your …
Apple says no personal user data was compromised when it was hacked by a 16-year-old
A teenager in Australia was able to hack Apple’s servers for about a year, stealing over 90GB of data (and, amazingly, storing it in a …
