Cybersecurity threats and responses: data breaches, passwords stored in plain text, two-factor login, browser exploits, DDoS takedowns and cyberattacks.
In its monthly's blog post, Facebook revealed that millions of Instagram passwords were stored in a readable format. Through an internal investigation, Facebook determined that passwords stored were…
Last March, we learned that Facebook allowed Cambridge Analytica to access personal information of 87 million users, the social media giant has faced a lot of pushback into…
HealthCare.Gov website has experienced a data breach where roughly 75,000 individuals were exposed, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service (CMS) said on Friday. According to the agency,…
Authorities in twelve countries have taken down WebStresser, which is believed to be the world's largest service for paid DDoS attacks. In the joint campaign (Operation Power Off),…
Cambridge Analytica's ex-CEO, Alexander Nix, has refused to testify before the U.K. Parliament's media committee. Committee Chairman Damian Collins announced the decision a day before his scheduled appearance,…
In a testimony today with a UK committee investigating the misuse of Facebook users' personal data, Brittany Kaiser, a former Cambridge Analytica employee, claimed in her spoken and…
Yesterday, we learned that both Sears and Delta had personal and financial information exposed for thousands of their customers. This is due to the companies entrusting their data…
Why don't we add another event of exposed customer data to the long list of companies? We will add Sears and Delta to the list of companies because…
We can all agree that privacy in the government is of great importance and if there are issues, they need to be addressed immediately. According to a report…
After the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data sharing that occurred where thousands of people were affected, a number of organizations including Color of Change, ACLU and Fight for the Future…
According to a report from the Seattle Times, a Boeing production plan in Charleston, South Carolina was the victim of the WannaCry ransomeware cyberattack on Wednesday. Mike VanderWel,…
Today, Netflix has announced that it's public bug bounty program. Prior to opening this program, the company carefully had a vulnerability disclosure program in place since 2013, and…
Today, Orbitz announced that it has discovered evidence of a data breach they experienced (via Gizmodo). Between October and December of last year, infiltrators may have accessed consumer…
Yahoo, and its parent company Verizon, will now have no choice but to face the US lawsuits against it over the company's multiple data breaches. California Judge Lucy…
Researchers have discovered a new malware in the MENA region called "Slingshot." This malware attacks and infects its victims through compromised routers and can run in kernel mode,…
