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• IT firm manager arrested in massive Ecuador data breach case affecting 20M people

  Ecuador officals arrest the general manager of IT consulting firm Novaestrat after a massive data breach exposed personal ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Colossal Ecuador leak exposes data of 20M individuals — including Julian Assange

  The personal data of just about every citizen of Ecuador has been found exposed online in what could be the country's biggest ...

  • Mix

• LastPass fixes flaw that leaked your previously used credentials

  Popular password manager LastPass has fixed a serious flaw in its latest update that could allow a malicious website to access ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• US sanctions 3 North Korean hacking groups behind Sony and WannaCry attacks

  The US Treasury imposed sanctions on three state-sponsored North Korean hacking groups that have been found to engage in ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Attackers actively exploiting 'Simjacker' flaw to steal device data and spy on individuals

  Cybersecurity researchers have warned of a critical vulnerability in SIM cards that could allow remote attackers to spy on ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Telegram fixed a bug that stored images on recipients' phones even after you 'unsent' them

  Telegram messenger just fixed a bug that stored a picture you sent via a message even if you 'unsend' the message. The vulnerability, discovered by security researcher Dhiraj Mishra, affected the messenger's last stable version (5.10.0 (1684)) before the update.  Mishra said on ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• ICE is paying an Israeli security company $30M to break into phones

  The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has expanded its partnership with Israeli digital forensics firm Cellebrite, ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• US court says scraping a site without permission isn't illegal

  An appeals court situated in California, US, today said it’s not illegal to scrape data from public websites without any prior approval. Web scraping refers to the process of collecting large troves of data with the use of web crawlers – scripts designed to lift information from ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Google purges 24 malware-ridden apps that were downloaded 500,000 times

  A new malware campaign called Joker targeting Android has been found to engage in ad fraud at least since early June 2019. ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Texas says no to ransom demand as it recovers from a 'coordinated ransomware attack'

  Texas officials have said that none of the municipalities impacted by the crippling ransomware attack last month have yielded ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Over half a million active GPS trackers have '123456' as default password

  Researchers have found serious security vulnerabilities in over 600,000 GPS trackers that may have exposed users data, including ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Twitter suspends SMS feature after CEO Dorsey's account was hi-Jack-ed

  Twitter has temporarily suspended the ability to tweet via SMS following high-profile hack of its CEO Jack Dorsey and a number ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan