Plex urges users to change passwords after data breach
Streaming giant Plex is urging its customers to change their passwords after it disclosed a data breach of one of its user databases. The company said in a post on Monday that it was aware…
Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity
Netskope follows Rubrik as a rare cybersecurity IPO, both backed Lightspeed
Cybersecurity is a massive sector, but startups in the category are more likely to be acquired than go public. Even Wiz, which for a time held the title of the fastest-growing startup, abandoned its IPO…
VC giant Insight Partners notifies staff and limited partners after data breach
Venture capital firm Insight Partners says it has completed notifying a number of individuals, including the firm’s limited partners, whose personal information was stolen by hackers in a January data breach. In a statement late…
Salesloft says Drift customer data thefts linked to March GitHub account hack
Salesloft said a breach of its GitHub account in March allowed hackers to steal authentication tokens that were later used in a mass-hack targeting several of its big tech customers. Citing an investigation by Google’s…
X is now offering me end-to-end encrypted chat. You probably shouldn’t trust it yet.
X, formerly Twitter, has started rolling out its new encrypted messaging feature called “Chat” or “XChat.” The company claims the new communication feature is end-to-end encrypted, meaning messages exchanged on it can only be read…
Venezuela’s president thinks American spies can’t hack Huawei phones
During a press conference on Monday, Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, showed off a Huawei smartphone that China’s President Xi Jinping gifted him, calling it “the best phone in the world,” and making a bold claim.…
WhatsApp fixes ‘zero-click’ bug used to hack Apple users with spyware
WhatsApp said on Friday that it fixed a security bug in its iOS and Mac apps that was being used to stealthily hack into the Apple devices of “specific targeted users.” The Meta-owned messaging app…
TransUnion says hackers stole 4.4 million customers’ personal information
Credit reporting giant TransUnion has disclosed a data breach affecting more than 4.4 million customers’ personal information. In a filing with Maine’s attorney general’s office on Thursday, TransUnion attributed the July 28 breach to unauthorized…
US sanctions fraud network used by North Korean ‘remote IT workers’ to seek jobs and steal money
The U.S. Treasury has sanctioned an international fraud network used by North Korea to infiltrate U.S. companies with hackers posing as legitimate job seekers, agency officials announced Wednesday. The sanctions are the latest action taken…
Security researcher maps hundreds of TeslaMate servers spilling Tesla vehicle data
A security researcher has found over a thousand publicly exposed hobby servers run by Tesla vehicle owners that are spilling sensitive data about their vehicles, including their granular location histories. Seyfullah Kiliç, founder of cybersecurity…