Bleeping Computer Hackers hitting thousands of organizations worldwide in a massive phishing campaign forgot to protect their loot and let Google the stolen passwords for public searches. The phishing campaign has been running for more …
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ZDNet The US National Security Agency has issued a security advisory this month urging system administrators in federal agencies and beyond to stop using old and obsolete TLS protocols. NSA recommends that only TLS 1.2 …
NSA urges system administrators to replace obsolete TLS protocols Read More »
Mullvad We invite you to read the final report of the first security-focused audit on Mullvad’s infrastructure, completed in December 2020. As Mullvad exists to protect users and their data, we are rather happy with …
No PII or privacy leaks found in Cure53’s Infrastructure audit Read More »
Softpedia WhatsApp’s controversial privacy update has caused quite an en-masse migration to alternative services, including Telegram and Signal, as users were concerned their data could eventually land in the hands of Facebook and other third-party …
Telegram Founder: WhatsApp Caused the “Largest Digital Migration in History” Read More »
Softpedia WhatsApp has already pushed back the controversial privacy policy update it announced earlier this year for three months, but the Indian government was the whole thing to be dropped entirely. According to a report, …
Indian Government Wants WhatsApp to Give Up on Privacy Policy Update Read More »
ZDNet If your online life revolves around Gmail, Chrome, and other Google software and services, your Google account is one of your most precious online resources. That’s especially true if you use the Gmail address …
How to secure your Google account and keep it safe from attacks Read More »
ZDNet The data regulator for the German state of Lower Saxony has fined a local laptop retailer a whopping €10.4 million ($12.5 million) for keeping its employees under constant video surveillance at all times for …
GDPR: German laptop retailer fined €10.4m for video-monitoring employees Read More »
WIRED In September of 2016, on a Hofstra University debate stage, journalist Lester Holt asked presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump how they’d improve American cybersecurity. When it came Trump’s turn to answer, he …
Trump’s Worst, Most Bizarre Statements About ‘the Cyber’ Read More »
Bleeping Computer Windows utility developer IObit was hacked over the weekend to perform a widespread attack to distribute the strange DeroHE ransomware to its forum members. IObit is a software developer known for Windows system …
IObit forums hacked in widespread DeroHE ransomware attack Read More »
Bleeping Computer The OpenWRT forum, a large community of enthusiasts of alternative, open-source operating systems for routers, announced a data breach. Forum administrators posted the announcement in a high-visibility area, explaining what happened and the …
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Bleeping Computer The privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo continues to grow rapidly as the company reached 102M daily search queries for the first time in January. DuckDuckGo is a search engine that builds its search index using …
Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo grew by 62% in 2020 Read More »
ZDNet Joker’s Stash, the internet’s largest marketplace for buying & selling stolen card data, announced today that it was shutting down within a month, on February 15, 2021. The news was announced earlier today by …
Joker’s Stash, the internet’s largest carding forum, is shutting down Read More »