In our article about the massive Facebook data leak earlier this month, we mentioned the concept of SIM swapping. This type of attack is becoming increasingly easier, thanks to leaks that associate email addresses and mobile phone numbers. Let’s take a…
Facebook made an announcement this week that it has expanded the scope of its Oversight Board to include appeals against content that has been left up on either Instagram or Facebook after someone had reported it. Previously, the Oversight Board would …
Last month, we told you about a series of critical vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange that were under attack. We urged small and medium businesses (SMBs) to take immediate action to patch, as well as determine if Exchange systems might have been com…
According to Bloomberg, a spokesperson for the European Commission confirmed that a number of European Union organizations “experienced an IT security incident in their IT infrastructure” last week, adding that no major information breach had been dete…
Over the holiday weekend, we learned that over half a billion (533 million) Facebook users’ personal data, including phone numbers, was leaked online. Facebook themselves confirmed the leak saying that it was a result of a vulnerability they fixed in 2…
The art world has been overtaken by tokens as of late — non-fungible tokens (NFTs), that is. Let’s try to understand what this method of tracking the ownership of various digital goods is, and what it means for the rest of us who still deal (mostly) wi…
Shortly after BuzzFeed News reported that an internal memo at Instagram announced plans for a kids version of the platform, a spokesperson from parent company Facebook confirmed the rumor to The Independent. “Right now there aren’t many options for par…
Ransomware continues to be a blight across the security landscape. Due to the pandemic, it has gotten new life and a growing collection of capabilities to make malware operators more formidable.
The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received nearly 800,000 complaints about cybercrime last year, more than two-thirds of a jump from what was seen in 2019. About a third of these complaints are from phishing attacks. The report summarizes…
Some Netflix users received a surprise when they logged on last week – a warning message reminding them that password sharing is forbidden on the platform. This is something of a new stance for the streaming giant, as it has traditionally taken a lenie…