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3 Apr

540 Million Facebook User Records Found On Unprotected Amazon Servers

It’s been a bad week for Facebook users. First, the social media company was caught asking some of its new users to share passwords for their registered email accounts and now… …the bad week gets worse with a new privacy...
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12 Jul

Malicious Software Packages Found On Arch Linux User Repository

Yet another incident which showcases that you should not explicitly trust user-controlled software repositories. One of the most popular Linux distros Arch Linux has pulled as many as three user-maintained software repository AUR packages after it was found hosting malicious...
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5 Jun

MyHeritage Says Over 92 Million User Accounts Have Been Compromised

MyHeritage, the Israel-based DNA testing service designed to investigate family history, has disclosed that the company website was breached last year by unknown attackers, who stole login credentials of its more than 92 million customers. The company learned about the...
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4 Jun

Facebook Accused of Giving Over 60 Device-Makers Deep Access to User Data

After being embroiled into controversies over its data sharing practices, it turns out that Facebook had granted inappropriate access to its users’ data to more than 60 device makers, including Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Blackberry, and Samsung. According to a lengthy...
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4 Jan

Hundreds of GPS Location Tracking Services Leaving User Data Open to Hackers

Security researchers have unearthed multiple vulnerabilities in hundreds of GPS services that could enable attackers to expose a whole host of sensitive data on millions of online location tracking devices managed by vulnerable GPS services. The series of vulnerabilities discovered...
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26 Dec

Nearly 250,000 User #logins are being #Hacked every #week – #Google #Research

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The internet users are getting subjected to security breaches every moment they are online as suggested by a number of surveys conducted at a global level. May it be credentials like...
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18 Nov

Researchers #Hack Car Infotainment #System and Find #Sensitive User #Data Inside

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans People who are worried about their security will use a secure phone, lock down their computer, and use strong passwords for their online accounts. But how many people have considered that...
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15 Nov

17-Year-Old MS Office Flaw Lets Hackers Install Malware Without User Interaction

You should be extra careful when opening files in MS Office. When the world is still dealing with the threat of ‘unpatched’ Microsoft Office’s built-in DDE feature, researchers have uncovered a serious issue with another Office component that could allow...
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9 Oct

FBI Arrests A Cyberstalker After Shady “No-Logs” VPN Provider Shared User Logs

FBI recently arrested a psycho cyber stalker with the help of a popular VPN service and this case apparently exposed the company’s lies about the “no logs” policy. Taking down cyber stalkers and criminals is definitely a good thing, and...
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5 Oct

Yahoo says all 3 billion user accounts were impacted by 2013 security breach

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Yahoo today announced that the huge data breach in August 2013 affected every user on its service — that’s all three billion user accounts and up from the initial one billion...
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