Amazon Key Hack Already in the Wild, Way Too Simple
Was it just the other week when we were talking about Amazon Key and how our convenience is becoming more important than our privacy if we start allowing delivery guys to [...]
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BlackBerry Willing to Break Own Encryption If Asked, Signals Critical Need for a Viable Alternative
In the post-Snowden era the world has come to understand that our privacy, our cyber-secrets, are of utmost importance and that mass surveillance will not be tolerated. It [...]
AI Is Both an Opportunity and a Threat for Cybersecurity – Interview with Thierry Karsenti (Check Point)
The importance of cybersecurity worldwide needs to be properly recognized if we want our digital world to grow safer. For this, collaboration is essential among security [...]
How to Delete Your Yahoo Account After Hack Exposed Everyone
Do you know how hard it is to delete your Yahoo account?! Well, it’s not exactly the fact that it’s hard, it’s just that they made it so that you’d [...]
Yahoo’s Data Breach From Hell Included 3 Billion Accounts, Not “Just” One
The nightmare that is Yahoo’s largest data breach in history seems to never end. Nearly a year after the disclosure was made, it seems that further investigation into [...]
Europol Says Ransomware Eclipsed Most Other Cyber Threats
Europol, the police agency of the European Union, is handing out a warning against the threat posed by ransomware. The agency published an 80-page report discussing numerous [...]
Largest Spambot Discovered Holds 711M Email Addresses
The world’s largest spambot dump has been uncovered, holding some 711 million email accounts. Previously, the largest such trove of data came from the River City Media [...]
HackerOne Hits $20M Paid Bounties, Shows Growing Importance of Ethical Hacking
HackerOne, the famous bug bounty platform, has reached $20 million in rewards handed out to white hats. This is great news, because it shows just how active ethical hackers [...]
Researchers Work Together, Take Down Huge Botnet Made of Infected Android Smartphones
Security researchers from several companies have teamed up to take down a DDoS botnet made up of Android devices. Security experts from numerous companies, including Google, [...]
WikiLeaks Outs CIA Distrust of Fellow Agencies in New Vault 7 Leaks
Inter-agency cooperations among the US big government agencies may sound like something that comes as a given, but it seems that can’t be farther from the truth. [...]
