The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced on Tuesday that it charged and imposed penalties on four companies for making misleading disclosures linked to the 2019 SolarWinds data breach. The four companies charged are …
Turning your phone off and then on again to reboot is not new advice, by any means. We heard the National Security Agency issue a warning in 2020, calling it the best practice to ensure a smooth and safer user experience . Interes…
Of the cybersecurity risks facing the United States today, few loom larger than the potential sabotage capabilities posed by China-backed hackers, which top U.S. officials have described as an “epoch-defining threat.” In recent mont…
British consumer advocacy group Which.co.uk is warning users to keep mobile phone numbers active. This is to ward off the risks of their numbers getting recycled by top mobile network providers. The goal is to send messages, make …
Internet Archive has just suffered a major security setback that arose in the form of a hacking attempt. The Wayback Machine underwent a data breach after threat actors hacked the website and stole user authentication data featur…
According to the new guidelines published by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), using smaller/complicated passwords or changing your passwords frequently doesn’t mean that your accounts are safe. For year…
According to the new guidelines published by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), using smaller/complicated passwords or changing your passwords frequently doesn’t mean that your accounts are safe. For year…
Microsoft just announced a further expansion of its privacy protection initiative, Defender for all users. The software giant first rolled it out in 2023 and now, we’re seeing it get another major upgrade in the form of more enha…
A new poll of 20K adults from all around the world conducted by Yubico found that most of the employed people have been victims of cyber attacks. According to the results of the poll, 45% of the respondents said that their personal…
The idea of digital privacy at the personal level is no less than a mirage: everyone thinks that their privacy is ensured, but it is not. The loopholes in the mobile phone networking systems exist, which have been the source of surv…
The Necro trojan was first discovered in the year 2019 but it looks like it’s still working its way into apps. Two popular platforms on Google Play with a combined total of 11M downloads were said to be infected by this trojan. Tha…
Telegram’s CEO is making it clear that the company is going to give in to requests for handing over users’ data if required for legal investigations. Pavel Durov stated that the platform will begin handing over IP addresses and ph…
On Thursday, cybersecurity giant Fortinet disclosed a breach involving customer data. In a statement posted online , Fortinet said an individual intruder accessed “a limited number of files” stored on a third-party shared cloud dri…
The cyberattack hitting Transport for London (TfL), the government body that runs the U.K. capital’s transit system, is now dragging into its second week . Although the transit system remains operational and unaffected by the cyber i…
According to Ajay Almani, the president and head of iProov, a biometric authentication company, deep fakes are going to get more common as the time passes. iProov conducted a poll to see how many organizations have encountered a dee…
On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Justice accused five members of Russia’s military intelligence agency of hacking several Ukrainian government agencies, an unnamed U.S. government agency in Maryland, and computers belonging to 26 …
Nearly two years after the layoffs across X’s trust, safety, and security teams, Elon Musk’s social media company is now trying to hire new employees to help moderate content and secure its platform, according to X’s official job li…
Security experts at Palo Alto have issued a warning regarding a new phishing attack campaign. Threat actors are now resorting to including ads in places you’d least expect them such as between search results on Google. They’ll app…
