Last week’s hack of high-profile Twitter accounts belonging to Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Bill Gates and others raises questions about who carried out the attack, why it was done and what it means for the future of democracy.
The coronavirus pandemic has shifted our everyday lives and has forced people online to perform many tasks we may have previously done in person. Cybercriminals have reacted to this behavior change, too, developing scams that might catch out online nov…
The coronavirus pandemic has shifted our everyday lives and has forced people online to perform many tasks we may have previously done in person. Cybercriminals have reacted to this behavior change, too, developing scams that might catch out online nov…
Covid-19 contact tracing apps are becoming a hot topic these days, and the debate surrounding their use is going to intensify in the next few months. They’re a promising solution for society desperately trying to respond to the pandemic. But are the se…
Covid-19 contact tracing apps are becoming a hot topic these days, and the debate surrounding their use is going to intensify in the next few months. They’re a promising solution for society desperately trying to respond to the pandemic. But are the se…
In their haste to bring COVID-19 contact tracing apps to market, many developers around the world have skimped on security, giving hackers easy targets from which they can steal all kinds of sensitive information, such as the names of the sick, nationa…
Compared to January and February this year, before lockdown measures took effect, March through June saw a surge in the use of stalkerware, an insidious kind of software that allows users to track both the physical and digital moves of others, sometime…
Over the past few weeks, more than 130 million user records, allegedly collected from 14 company data breaches, have been put up for sale on numerous hacking forums. Bleeping Computer reported that the seller, a known data breach broker, claims all the…
Earlier this month, a group of hackers published a massive dataset stolen from various local law enforcement agencies. The data has been labeled BlueLeaks and contains more than 269 GB of thousands of police reports that go back at least two decades fr…
Security researchers have discovered what they believe to be a global surveillance campaign whereby attackers were using malicious Google Chrome browser extensions to steal data and spy on over 100 networks. Threatpost reported that the researchers sus…