Two US college students are facing up to two years in jail for trying to obtain unauthorized access to the tax returns of President Donald Trump. In 2016, when Trump was running for office, the …
Most consumers will refuse to work with enterprises that won’t keep their data secure
More than half of US citizens either have experienced a cyberattack in which hackers accessed their data, or know someone who experienced this, according to a new IBM survey conducted by The Harris …
Instagram Confirms Security Issue Exposed User Accounts And Phone Numbers
A recently uncovered vulnerability in Instagram's contact importer could have allowed threat actors to access private user data including full names, phone numbers and Instagram account numbers and …
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Major Groupon, Ticketmaster Fraud Scheme Exposed By Insecure Database
Researchers with vpnMentor recently uncovered an unsecured database exposing 17 million emails to the Internet. When they tried to trace and alert the owner, they discovered that the leaky server was …
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D-Link, Comba network gear leave passwords open for potentially whole world to see
Security researchers with Trustwave have discovered that certain DSL modems and Wi-Fi routers produced by D-Link and Comba expose user passwords to the Internet as the result of various firmware …
Fraudsters no longer operate in silos, they are attacking across industries and organizations
In the first half of this year, the number of human-initiated fraud attacks increased by 13% compared to the second half of last year, a new report by LexisNexis Risk Solutions shows. It also found …
98 percent of top US websites not prepared against attacks
A new report by Tala Security warns that the vast majority of Alexa top 1000 websites are vulnerable to advanced client-side attacks such as those falling under the Magecart umbrella. In a Magecart …
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281 suspects arrested in massive crackdown against BEC scammers
An international law enforcement operation code-named Operation reWired has resulted in the arrests of 281 people suspected of carrying out business email compromise (BEC) scams. 167 arrests occurred …
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Tech giants ask Congress for a data privacy bill to bypass state laws
A joint letter by the CEOs of over 50 companies, including Amazon and AT&T, calls on the United States Congress to create federal data privacy legislation to "strengthen consumer trust and …
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Weakness in Intel chips lets researchers steal encrypted SSH keystrokes
Vulnerabilities in the Data-Direct I/O (DDIO) mechanism in Intel server processors can be exploited by attackers in order to grab keystrokes and other sensitive data, new research from the Vrije …
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