In response to the news that researchers discovered a WhatsApp security threat that can crashes the app and delete group chats, a security expert offers perspective.
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IMGE, consulting firm based in the Washington, D.C.-area left their Amazon cloud-storage system database that contained the names, phone numbers, home addresses, and email addresses of about 50,000 individuals—including more than 6,000 employees of the U.S.’s primary aerospace and defense contractor Boeing, publicly accessible online. The Boeing employees impacted ranged from senior executives to program managers to government-relations personnel, and even one executive at the company’s advanced prototyping arm that handles highly classified work for the U.S. government.
Retail experiences are constantly changing, with shoppers using an ever-growing list of methods to find, buy and collect products. From paying with cash to biometric authentication, consumers have never had so much choice in how to complete purchases. But a recent study from Wirecard has revealed that not only do physical stores still have a big part to play in the retail landscape, there are also multiple ways to complete transactions – with cashless payments being increasingly prominent. However, it isn’t just hard-earned money that people are prepared to part with to ensure they can afford goods. Personal data – such as…
It has been reported that, be it fake or real, payment card data does not survive untouched for long on the web. The bad guys are testing everything they find on the internet, just to make sure they don’t miss an opportunity to cash in. From the moment it landed on several paste sites, it took two hours for data from a Visa card to be used for a micro-transaction, just to check it’s validity.
December 26th sees the start of the second season of “You – You’ll love me” on Netflix. The focus: bookseller Joe Goldberg, who develops an excessive obsession with his customer Guinevere Beck, stalks her in every conceivable way and even kills her in the end. What would be a nightmare in reality, made the hearts of some women beat faster in the first season. However, stalking is a serious problem that is increasingly spreading digitally. So-called stalkerware programs – espionage software secretly installed on a victim’s smartphone – allow third parties to invade another person’s private life. Stalkerware can officially be purchased…
The personal information of 15 million Canadians may have been exposed after a company that performs diagnostic, naturopathic, and genetic tests had its computer systems hacked. LifeLabs announced the breach on its website, saying it discovered the hack through proactive surveillance. The company says it paid a ransom in order to secure the data, including test results from 85,000 Ontarians. It says that the majority of affected customers are from B.C. and Ontario, and the breach was discovered at the end of October. The compromised test results were from 2016 and earlier and LifeLabs says there is no evidence that results…
Hundreds of industrial companies are currently the targets of cyber-espionage activity from an advanced threat actor. The adversary uses a new version of an older info-stealer to extract sensitive data and files. The attacker uses spear-phishing emails with malicious attachments often disguised as PDF files. Separ is the malware of choice, which steals login data from browsers and email clients, also hunting for various types of documents and images.
A vulnerability has been discovered in RSA certificates that could compromise one in every 172 certificates currently in active use. On Saturday at the First IEEE Conference on Trust, Privacy, and Security in Intelligent Systems and Applications in Los Angeles, Calfornia, a team of researchers from Keyfactor presented their findings into the security posture of digital certificates, ZDNet reported.
Hacking and Malware Cause 75% of all Data Breaches in the Financial Services Industry Bitglass, the Next-Gen Cloud Security company, today released its 2019 Financial Breach Report: The Financial Matrix. Each Year, Bitglass analyses the latest trends, the biggest breaches, and the top threats facing financial services organisations. This year’s study found that only 6% of all breaches in 2019 were suffered by financial services firms. However, these breaches compromised significantly more records than those that occurred in other industries. In total, more than 60% of all leaked records in 2019 were exposed by financial services organisations. This is at least…
Rooster Teeth, a company that makes podcasts, animated shows and short-form content for distribution along with an online store that sells merchandise, has been hit with a Magecart attack on their online store that was able to siphon off credit card information from customers.