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Google throws bug bounty bucks at mega-popular third-party apps
Google’s going to throw more bug bounty money at the problem of nasty apps in its Play Store, it announced on Thursday. In a post from the Android Security & Privacy team’s Adam Bacchus, Sebastian Porst, and Patrick Mutchler , the company said that it’s throwing the security net over not just its own apps, but […]
Capital One cryptojacking suspect indicted
The former software engineer allegedly created scanners to look for misconfigured servers rented from a cloud computing company.
Report: 53% of social media logins are fraud
Most attacks are from botnets. The goals: spreading spam, stealing data, spreading propaganda, and social-engineering consumers for profit.
Hostinger upgrades password security after 14m accounts breached
Millions of customers of web hosting company Hostinger have received emails bearing the bad news of a data breach.
Court squeezes $1 million back from convicted phisher
Prolific phishing scammer Grant West has been sentenced to 10 years, 8 months, and reimbursement for victims.
Massive MoviePass database found exposed on public server
Tens of thousands of records with financial data were left in plaintext in a database that wasn’t protected with a password.
Did Facebook know about “View As” bug before 2018 breach?
Even though Facebook protected employees, it failed to fix the vulnerability or to protect most users, a court filing charges.
Hacking forum spills rival’s 321,000 member database
When users of hacking forums turn on each other, expect things to get messy quickly.
GDPR privacy can be defeated using right of access requests
A British researcher has uncovered an ironic, gaping security hole in the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – right of access requests.