A WhatsApp buffer overflow that crashed your phone due to audio data sent by a caller meant that just answering a call could spell trouble.
Daily Archives: October 10, 2018
Google+ wakes up to what the rest of us already knew
Google’s closing down the platform nobody uses and might face a class-action lawsuit over a G+ spawned breach it took 7 months to report.
291 records breached per second in first half of 2018
Over 4.5 billion data records were breached in the first half of this year, according to Gemalto’s Breach Level Index released this week.
Cyber tormentor leaves a trail that lands him 17.5 years
Ryan S. Lin pleaded guilty to cyberstalking, distribution of child abuse imagery, hoax bomb threats, computer fraud and abuse, and ID theft.
Airport mislays world’s most expensive USB stick
In October 2017, a member of the public found a USB stick containing a trove of data on security systems and procedures at one of the world’s busiest airports.