Facebook vulnerability allowed access to personal and payment information
Bitdefender has discovered a significant vulnerability within Facebook which allowed access to any user account through simple social login manipulation. The attacker was able …
Info on 93 million Mexican voters found on an Amazon cloud server
Sensitive personal information of over 93 million Mexican voters has been found, unprotected and accessible to anyone who knew where to look. Last Friday, researcher Chris …
Opera browser’s VPN is just a proxy, here’s how it works
Yesterday, Opera announced they’ve added a free VPN client with unlimited data usage in the latest developer version of their browser. Sounds great, doesn’t it? …
Increase in credit card leaks with high profile apps and sites
A new report reveals a continued rise in apps and mobile websites leaking credit card data, with several new cases from prominent brands, including the Hong Kong metro system. …
Opera browser now comes with free built-in VPN
Opera added a free VPN client with unlimited data usage in its newest developer version. All other VPNs for the major desktop browsers are extensions, with most of them based …
Five steps to GDPR compliance
For any organisations processing personal data the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is important news. Agreed upon just days ago, after years of negotiations, the …
SIM Swap fraud is gaining momentum
SIM Swap fraud or SIM Splitting, a financially-motivated mobile phone threat, is gaining momentum according to Foursys. Remote banking losses increased significantly last …
Microsoft sues US govt for right to tell users when their data is accessed by feds
Microsoft has filed a new lawsuit against the US government, asking the court to permit them to alert their users when their online accounts and the data in them has been …
6,013 breaches reported in the US since 2005
In 2005, the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) began monitoring and tallying the ever-growing number of US security breaches. Since then, the organization has seen a 397 …
Panama Papers: A data security disaster
The Panama Papers security breach is a juicy, made-for-the-Internet scandal. It has all the elements – secret off-shore accounts; involvement by international politicians, …
Documentaries about an expert convicted of leaking classified information
Stephen Kim was a top level state department intelligence analyst. He went to prison under the Espionage Act. The Surrender The Surrender intimately documents Stephen Kim’s …
Dark web mapping reveals that half of the content is legal
A recent global survey commissioned by the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) showed that seven in ten (71%) global citizens say the “dark net” – …