Unidentified Database Exposes 200 Million Americans
The CyberNews research team uncovered an unsecured database owned by an unidentified party, comprising 800 gigabytes of personal user information. […]
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Putin’s Secret Intelligence Agency Hacked: Dangerous New ‘Cyber Weapons’ Now Exposed
The successor agency to Russia’s KGB has been hacked again—and the exposed tools represent a threat to us all. This […]
Half a million private, legal and financial documents leaked online
An unsecured database has leaked over 500,000 highly sensitive documents leaving many at risk of fraud and theft. The database […]
Five billion records exposed in open ‘data breach database’
More than five billion records were exposed after a Elasticsearch “data breach database” housing a trove of security incidents from […]
Study ranks the privacy of major browsers. Here are the findings
Upstart Brave browser gets the highest ratings. Chrome, Firefox and Safari fall between. Microsoft Edge received the lowest privacy rating […]
Android surveillanceware operators jump on the coronavirus fear bandwagon
Researchers have uncovered a mobile surveillance campaign that has used more than 30 malicious Android apps to spy on targets […]
Google Chrome 82 to Enhance Privacy via New Cookie Settings
Google is making progress on expanding the control users have over cookies in the Chrome browser with a new flag […]
Proposed US law is “Trojan horse” to stop online encryption, critics say
Child-exploitation bill could dissuade companies from using end-to-end encryption. Two Republicans and two Democrats in the US Senate have proposed […]
Law enforcement can crack iPhones just fine without a backdoor
Law enforcement agencies may be able to access data on locked iPhones more often than they’re letting on, an analysis […]
Cost of data loss per organization surpassed $1M in the past year
Businesses now manage an average of 13.53 petabytes of data, but struggle to keep it secure. Within the last 12 […]
Brave to generate random browser fingerprints to preserve user privacy
“Brave’s new approach aims to make every browser look completely unique, both between websites and between browsing sessions.” The Brave […]
Hackers are targeting other hackers
Researchers have uncovered a new campaign whereby attackers are “trojanizing” multiple hacking tools. Cybereason researcher Amit Serper has been investigating […]