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…
A hacking collective facetiously calling itself “Advanced Persistent Threat 69420” has breached the video archives and live feeds of security software company Verkada Inc., gaining access to 150,000 active surveillance cameras and every video archived …
The not-so-dirty secret about web browsers is that browser extensions can be a major security weakness. We last wrote about this issue with malicious extensions in December. But the problem with extensions deserves further treatment, especially as they…