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The internet boom came bearing many gifts for businesses and individuals alike. Some of them include an interconnected world, e-commerce, and social media. However, it also brought with it many cyber security risks — and being hacked is one of them. In 2018 alone, an...

Of today’s main communications mediums – text, phone calls and email – consumers get the most spam over phone and email: 70% said they receive spam often over email and 51% said the same for phone calls, a Zipwhip survey reveals. Fifty-four percent of people even use...

Story Source: TechRadar New reports have claimed Microsoft Office was the most commonly exploited application worldwide as of the the third quarter of this year. Research from PreciseSecurity.com found that Microsoft Office solutions and applications were the target...

Source: ArsTechnica By now, the privacy threats posed by Amazon Alexa and Google Home are common knowledge. Workers for both companies routinely listen to audio of users—recordings of which can be kept forever—and the sounds the devices capture can be used in criminal...

Twitter fetched relevant matching user data upon uploading the contacts through the contacts upload feature on Twitter's Android app. The researcher took many of the phone numbers of high-profile Twitter users including politicians and officials to a WhatsApp group to...

Small businesses often lack the IT staffing resources and expertise that are commonly found in larger organizations. As such, it’s hardly surprising to find that SMB systems--including security systems--may not be configured in quite the way that they should be or may...

SplashData released their “Worst passwords of 2019” list, which includes the top 25 most dangerous and most commonly leaked passwords. In an interesting turn of events, password has for the first time in the list’s history been knocked out of the top two spots....

It’s that time of year again. Everyone’s busy – at work and at home. That includes cybercriminals, too. In fact, the holiday season is when busy, distracted people tend to be especially vulnerable to phishing attacks. Just one click on a phishing link in a...

Author: Brian Krebs Last summer, a wave of sextortion emails began flooding inboxes around the world. The spammers behind this scheme claimed they’d hacked your computer and recorded videos of you watching porn, and promised to release the embarrassing footage to all...

Zoopla has repelled a cyber attack on its Alto property software - with no breach of customer agents’ personal data. It has sent an email to all its Alto customers, explaining the attack - which led to a temporary break in the service - and outlining measures it has...