Netflix phishing scammers are at it again, sending emails that try to steal sensitive details from subscribers.
Tag Archives: Security threats
US military given the power to hack back/defend forward
The new preventative cybersecurity powers include potentially acting against countries considered friendly toward the US – a risky move, some say.
FBI wants to keep “helpful” Mirai botnet authors around
The young men behind the powerful IoT device botnet have been working undercover with law enforcement since they were first fingered.
Western Digital goes quiet on unpatched MyCloud flaw
Western Digital has failed to patch a serious security vulnerability in its MyCloud NAS drives that it was told about more than a year ago, researchers have alleged.
iOS 12 is here: these are the security features you need to know about
One year to the day after iOS 11 appeared, Apple yesterday released its replacement, iOS 12.
Here we Mongo again! Millions of records exposed by insecure database
Another day, another poorly configured MongoDB database.
Years on, third party apps still exposing Grindr users’ locations
A third party app can use Grindr’s distance data to pinpoint a users location down to a room within a house.
How Facebook wants to protect political campaigners from hacking
The social network is trying to protect candidates, elected officials and their staff from “hackers and foreign adversaries”.
Intel releases firmware update for ME flaw
It’s only September and yet 2018 is well on its way to being remembered as the year of fixing flaws we didn’t realise were possible in hardware we’d never heard of.
91 “child friendly” Android apps accused of exploitation
New Mexico’s AG filed a lawsuit accusing a popular app maker, plus Google’s and Twitter’s ad platforms, of illegally collecting kids’ data.