On Monday, a First American Financial customer named David Gritz filed a class-action lawsuit against the real-estate title insurer for an alleged data breach exposing 885 million files. The breach was reported last week by cybersecurity researchers wh…
In 2016, American democracy was hacked. Can cybersecurity prevent meddling next time?
This week TechCrunch reported that the Chinese company TP-Link had not addressed a vulnerability in its routers first discovered in 2017. The issue allows hackers to remotely take control of the routers by guessing weak default passwords that come with…
Europol takes down cybercrime supermarket
In a joint effort by six countries, Europol led a complicated international operation to take down the GozNym malware cybercriminal network. The network preyed on over 40,000 victi…
Every form of crime seems to invade the world of cybersecurity. Sooner or later that had to include the age-old childhood bullying trauma of school lunch theft. Except in this case the pilfered prize was data, not baloney.
On Saturday, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) bombed a building in the Gaza Strip that they say housed Hamas hackers attacking Israel. The airstrike decimated the alleged hacker headquarters, marking the first time military force has been used as a direct r…
Android users – and I’m one – are well-advised to be constantly vigilant about the types of cyberthreats directed, at any given time, at the world’s most popular mobile device operating system.
Imagine that the very security tool you put in place to keep intruders out of your home is suddenly being used as a doorway in. This nightmare is a reality for an increasing number of victims.As reported by The Washington Post, the California mom of a …
A mysterious entry jumps out from the US Department of Energy report covering emergencies and disturbances for Q1 2019. Without going into any detail, it simply notes that between 9:12 AM and 6:57 PM on March 5 the power grid suffered a “cyber event th…
New Avast research* shows that 25% of connected users worldwide have never changed their passwords. Are you one of them? Our research also reveals that 83% of Americans use weak passwords that are easy to crack.