Month: January 2024
23andMe Failed to Detect Account Intrusions for Months
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2024 14:00:00 +0000
Plus: North Korean hackers get into generative AI, a phone surveillance tool that can monitor billions of devices gets exposed, and ambient light sensors pose a new privacy risk.
Read morePolice Arrest Teen Said to Be Linked to Hundreds of Swatting Attacks
Credit to Author: Dhruv Mehrotra| Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2024 21:07:18 +0000
A California teenager who allegedly used the handle Torswats to carry out a nationwide swatting campaign is being extradited to Florida to face felony charges, WIRED has learned.
Read moreThe Pentagon Tried to Hide That It Bought Americans’ Data Without a Warrant
Credit to Author: Dell Cameron| Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2024 19:13:23 +0000
US spy agencies purchased Americans’ phone location data and internet metadata without a warrant but only admitted it after a US senator blocked the appointment of a new NSA director.
Read moreWho is Alleged Medibank Hacker Aleksandr Ermakov?
Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2024 18:12:09 +0000
Authorities in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States this week levied financial sanctions against a Russian man accused of stealing data on nearly 10 million customers of the Australian health insurance giant Medibank. 33-year-old Aleksandr Ermakov allegedly stole and leaked the Medibank data while working with one of Russia’s most destructive ransomware groups, but little more is shared about the accused. Here’s a closer look at the activities of Mr. Ermakov’s alleged hacker handles.
Read more10 things to do to improve your online privacy
It’s Data Privacy Week so here are 10 tips from our VP of Consumer Privacy, Oren Arar, about how to stay private online.
Read moreRing curtails law enforcement’s access to footage
US law enforcement will no longer be able to request footage produced by Ring devices, unless it’s an emergency.
Read more“The mother of all breaches”: 26 billion records found online [Updated]
Security researchers have discovered billions of exposed records online, calling it the “mother of all breaches”. Check what data of yours has been exposed online with our free tool.
Read moreMultiple vulnerabilities discovered in widely used security driver
Credit to Author: Angela Gunn| Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2024 19:00:52 +0000
A false-alarm incident involving Panda Security software leads to three very real CVEs
Read more[updated] “The mother of all breaches”: 26 billion records found online
Security researchers have discovered billions of exposed records online, calling it the “mother of all breaches”. Check what data of yours has been exposed online with our free tool.
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