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Security and privacy stories: password failures at Facebook, data breaches, government surveillance, leaks, phone antivirus and account protection.
The US Department of Treasury has issued sanctions against five Russian entities and 19 individuals for their involvement in a number of cyberattacks as well as online efforts…
Just a week after MoviePass CEO Mitch Low comments that "we watch how you drive home" were brought to light, the exec seems to now be walking back…
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…
Equifax's data breach has impacted millions, and the company is facing a lot of backlash. Identity theft protection is become incredibly important to consumers, so a handful of…
It appears that efforts to combat Russian meddling aren't going very well. Despite Mueller's investigation indicting 13 Russian nationals who ran multiple social accounts on different social media…
Remember all of those passwords you have saved in Chrome? Well, if you ever felt like wanting to move them elsewhere, you may get to soon. Chrome users…
Previously, SEC announced that it would scrutinize companies generating hype by pivoting to crypto before diving deeper into initial coin offerings with subpoenas. Today, it appears that the…
While Best Buy has denied that it has close ties to the FBI, according to the EFF, Geek Squad, Best Buy's team of IT technicians, their relationship with…
Researchers at Purdue and the University of Iowa have released an outline of exploits for the LTE protocols that would allow intruders to conduct ten very serious attacks.…
Things just seem to be getting worse for Equifax. After experiencing a huge data breach, it appears that the company experienced data breach for another 2.4 million people,…
Major US wireless carriers are working together on a mobile authentication system that has the potential of coming a new open standard. Grouped under Mobile Authentication Taskforce, AT&T,…
Tinder was previously hit with a big security flaw that allowed access to accounts with just a phone number. Security researchers at Appsecure discovered a way to access…
US Attorney General Jeff Sessions has announced a new Cybersecurity Task Force to "canvass the many ways that the Department is combatting the global cyber threat." Orders for…
There's been a number of people who have been consistently receiving random notifications from Facebook after providing the social network with their phone numbers for two-factor authentication. Here's…
Intel announced yesterday that it was expanding its bug bounty program to catch more issues like Meltdown and Spectre. For a little while now, we've known that there…
