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mSpy finally admits they’ve been hacked

After having first denied that they suffered a breach and had their customer’s data stolen and leaked on the Dark Web, mobile spyware maker mSpy has finally admitted …

Account recovery via secret questions is a bad idea

Secret questions offer far lower security than user-chosen passwords, and should never be used as the only way to reclaim access to a lost account, Google researchers have …

Isle of Man taxpayers’ info leaked due to email error

Email addresses of approximately 5000 customers of the Income Tax Division (ITD) of the Isle of Man – a self-governing British Crown dependency and a tax haven for the …

Android factory reset not enough to keep data secure

If you sell or gift your old Android phone to someone, is it enough to do a factory reset to wipe all your sensitive data? And if your Android gets stolen, how sure are you …

Hacker leaks sensitive info of millions of Adult FriendFinder users

Information of over 3.5 million users of dating site Adult FriendFinder has been stolen and leaked online, and is being used by spammers, scammers and phishers, a Channel 4 …

Keeping passwords safe from cracking

A group of researchers from Purdue University in Indiana have come up with an effective and easy-to-implement solution for protecting passwords from attackers.These days, …

Company compiles massive marketing database by scraping data dumps

SalesMaple, a recently founded data analytics startup headed by PwnedList founder Steve Thomas, has made available a free database of some 30 million business contacts, which …

Personal info of 1.1M customers stolen in CareFirst breach

CareFirst, a Blue Cross Blue Shield plan, has announced that they have suffered a breach in which the attackers gained access to one of their databases.“Evidence …

A first aid kit for ransomware infections

“You’ve been hit by ransomware and you don’t know what to do? Jada Cyrus has assembled a helpful “Ransomware Removal Kit” which contains …

Google patches Android Chrome address bar spoofing bug

The existence of another address bar spoofing bug has been revealed, and this one affects the Android Chrome browser.“Due to a problem in handling 204 “No …

Newly disclosed Logjam bug might be how the NSA broke VPNs

Another vulnerability courtesy of 1990s-era US export restrictions on cryptography has been discovered, and researchers believe it might be how the NSA managed to regularly …

Bug in NetUSB code opens networking devices to remote code execution

Researchers from SEC Consult have published details of a critical kernel stack buffer overflow vulnerability in NetUSB, a software component that provides “USB over …

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