Stalkerware developer dealt new blow by FTC

Credit to Author: David Ruiz| Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:56:37 +0000

A new government front has emerged against stalkerware—the US Federal Trade Commission. Following enforcement against Retina-X and its founder, what’s next?

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Hacker breached servers used by NordVPN

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 12:41:12 +0000

NordVPN has been forced to admit that a hacker stole an expired TLS certificate key used to securely connect customers to its web servers.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/f5mz8QmYkC8″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Travel database exposed PII on US government employees

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 10:32:40 +0000

A property management company owned by hotel chain Best Western has exposed 179 GB of sensitive travel information on thousands of travelers.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/ya-mCNqAOjw” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Hacker wants $300 for 250,000 records stolen from sex worker site

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2019 11:33:42 +0000

In spite of prostitution being legal in the Netherlands, this could lead to the same type of blackmail attempts/suicide from Ashley Madison.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/ohkoUzZ8kvQ” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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218 million Words With Friends players lose data to hackers

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2019 12:20:10 +0000

The serial hacker GnosticPlayers is claiming to have ransacked Zynga’s user data – including names, emails and passwords.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/5iXJ4_o_gJ4″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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What role does data destruction play in cybersecurity?

Credit to Author: Kayla Matthews| Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2019 18:18:26 +0000

Organizations are keen to protect the personal data of their employees and customers from cyberattack. But what about the data they no longer need? We discuss why data destruction is just as important to cybersecurity as protection.

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Database exposed 133 million US Facebook users’ phone numbers

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2019 12:46:55 +0000

Facebook confirmed the breach, claiming that the total number of users in the database was 210 million.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/1g5AlsbhrXc” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Capital One cryptojacking suspect indicted

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2019 10:39:21 +0000

The former software engineer allegedly created scanners to look for misconfigured servers rented from a cloud computing company.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/au_7MSrus80″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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