July has been a pretty quiet month so far but we do have a couple of headlines to report. There were a couple of data breaches, military information stolen, users threatened with their porn viewing habits and the never ending Facebook controversy. But we did not witness any major incidents so it’s been relatively peaceful.…
June has been a worrying month in regards to data breaches. Three major companies, including one of the biggest sportswear manufacturers Adidas, have revealed that they have suffered data breaches, which resulted in customer data being accesses by unauthorized parties. Two South Korean cryptocurrency exchange services have reported hacks, which led to tens of millions of dollars stolen. In other…
With the popularity of cryptocurrencies, particularly the widespread attention for Bitcoin, blockchain has gained a lot of traction in recent years. Many businesses are looking to adopt the technology as it is believed it will revolutionize the Internet itself. It provides a secure way to make transactions and smart contracts, as everything is verified by multiple participants. However, as secure…
May was the month a lot of companies all over the world were dreading. May 25th marked the day when the new data protection laws in Europe come into place, the laws that were announced two years ago. Companies had two years to comply with the new regulations but many of them left it to the last minute, resulting in…
We are back with April 15-30 cybersecurity news headlines. It seems the Facebook Analytica scandal has somewhat died down, or at least no major revelation has been made, but the social media giant will still be in hot waters for a while. Other stories have made headlines however, with a potential customer information theft in a bank, Twitter banning Kaspersky…
Facebook is still remains in hot waters over the Cambridge Analytica scandal, with more troubling information coming to light. The company revealed that a much larger number of Facebook users had their data access by Cambridge Analytica, an estimated 87 million, instead of the 50 million. It then dropped a bombshell, explaining that by abusing a certain Facebook feature, malicious…
The second half of March has been pretty bad for cybersecurity, mainly because of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which is one of the biggest to hit the tech world in the last few years. There were also news about data breaches, Microsoft making a questionable decision and Facebook collecting your call history and SMS. Without getting too much into it,…
During the tax filing season, scammers become particularly active, and with the deadline coming closer and closer, you need to be careful. Crooks come up with all kinds of methods to lure out money out of taxpayers, but awareness for these scams is also rising. The IRS (Internal Revenue Service) even has an annual ‘Dirty Dozen’ list with the worst…
A well-known software download website for Mac devices, MacUpdate, was revealed to have been a victim of a cyber attack that resulted in them distributing cryptocurrency miners to their users. “The malware was spread via hack of the MacUpdate site, which was distributing maliciously-modified copies of the Firefox, OnyX, and Deeper applications. According to a statement posted in the comments…
There are many things to consider when labeling a browser as secure, such as whether it prevents you from entering a malicious site, blocks automatic malware downloads, is easily exploitable, etc. But how much it respects users’ privacy should also be high on the list. If you are using a browser with top features for protecting you from malicious threats…