Facebook to pay $725m penalty to settle Cambridge Analytica Data Scandal on a legal note
Facebook, the business subsidiary of Meta platform, has agreed to pay $725 million as a penalty to settle a long pending legal battle related to…
Month: December 2022
BlueNoroff APT Hackers Using New Ways to Bypass Windows MotW Protection
Dec 27, 2022Ravie LakshmananCyber Attack / Windows Security BlueNoroff, a subcluster of the notorious Lazarus Group, has been observed adopting new techniques into its playbook…
BTC.com lost $3 million worth of cryptocurrency in cyberattack
BTC.com, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency mining pools, announced it was the victim of a cyberattack that resulted in the theft of approximately $3…
Why is an SSL Certificate Important for Your Website?
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Tailscale VPN nodes vulnerable to DNS rebinding, RCE
Users should manually update to the latest version now UPDATED A series of flaws in Tailscale, an open source mesh virtual private network (VPN) software,…
Hacktivism Is Back and Messier Than Ever
During its brutal war in Ukraine, Russian troops have burnt cities to the ground, raped and tortured civilians, and committed scores of potential war crimes. On November 23,…
Cyber Security Is Not a Losing Game – If You Start Right Now
Reality has a way of asserting itself, irrespective of any personal or commercial choices we make, good or bad. For example, just recently, the city…
Hackers stole customer vault data in cloud storage breach
LastPass revealed today that attackers stole customer vault data after breaching its cloud storage earlier this year using information stolen during an August 2022 incident.…
5 Best Password Managers (2022): Features, Pricing, and Tips
There are apps for Android, iOS, Windows, MacOS, and Linux, as well as extensions for all major web browsers. Bitwarden also has support for Windows…
How to delete an account from Instagram?
We all have social media accounts and use them to share photos, videos, and thoughts with the world. But what if you no longer want…
Ex-Twitter employee Gets 3.5 Years Jail for Spying on Behalf of Saudi Arabia
Dec 16, 2022Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Privacy A former Twitter employee who was found guilty of spying on behalf of Saudi Arabia by sharing data…
EarSpy attack eavesdrops on Android phones via motion sensors
A team of researchers has developed an eavesdropping attack for Android devices that can, to various degrees, recognize the caller’s gender and identity, and even…