Google has disclosed the second security hole in its Google+ social network in three months.
Tag Archives: Security threats
Text CAPTCHAs easily beaten by neural networks
As CAPTCHA-haters know to their frequent irritation, the death of the text-based Completely Automated Procedures for Telling Computers and Humans Apart tends to be exaggerated.
Teen SWATter who had 400 schools evacuated lands 3 years in jail
George Duke-Cohan is the British teen who posed as a worried father whose daughter had called him mid-flight during a hijacking.
Massive botnet chews through 20,000 WordPress sites
Attackers have infected 20,000 WordPress sites by brute-forcing administrator usernames and passwords.
Android click fraud apps mimic Apple iPhones to boost revenue
SophosLabs has uncovered a click fraud campaign in which malicious Android apps masquerade as being hosted on Apple devices to earn rewards.
Flash zero-day exploit spotted – patch now!
If you’re among the holdouts still running Flash, you have some more updating homework to do.
Kids’ VTech tablets vulnerable to eavesdropping hackers
Attackers can boobytrap what should be access to only parent-vetted sites and can take over the webcam, speakers and microphone.
Unencrypted medical data leads to 12-state litigation
The Attorneys general of 12 states are suing an e-record provider who lost 3.9 million personal healthcare records in 2015.
Hacker-besieged DNA data tucked away under military care
Genomics England announced it’s sequenced 100K Brits’ genomes… and then had to store them in a military base after multiple hacking attacks.
Quora.com admits data breach affecting 100 million accounts
Hackers have compromised data from the accounts of 100 million users of question and answer site Quora.com.