Another 26m records stolen from another six online companies brings this hacker’s total number of records to 863m from 38 websites.
Monthly Archives: March 2019
Court: Embarrassing leaks of internal Facebook emails are fishy
The leaks point to a plot, a Calif. court said, ordering pikini app maker Six4Three to hand over its lawyers’ chats with the ICO.
Epic in hot water over Steam-scraping code
Players noticed that Epic Games was gathering and storing data from Steam accounts without their permission.
MySpace loses 50 million songs in server migration
Everything uploaded prior to 2015 is gone for good, the cobwebby social network finally admitted.
Child-friendly search engines: How safe is Kiddle?
Kiddle and Kidrex are meant to deliver age-appropriate search results, filtering out internet nastiness. But how do they really stack up?
DARPA is working on an open source, secure e-voting system
The US Government is working on an electronic voting system that it hopes will prevent people from tinkering with voting machines at the polls.
Intel releases patches for code execution vulnerabilities
Intel released patches last week, fixing a range of vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to execute code on affected devices.
G Suite admins can now disallow SMS and voice authentication
Users of G Suite may find that the option to authenticate themselves via SMS or voice call has suddenly disappeared.
WordPress 5.1.1 patches dangerous XSS vulnerability
Researchers have offered more detail on a recently patched vulnerability that would allow an attacker to take over a WordPress site.
Sextortion – what’s new, and what to do [VIDEO]
Share this video with your less tech-savvy friends and family to set their minds at rest about sextortion.