The autofill function speeds up online shopping by permanently storing credit card information in the browser. While this sounds convenient, it has a big security-related downside. Storing payment data in the browser or on numerous…
A global coalition of law enforcement agencies shut down a botnet made of tens of thousands of hacked home and small business routers on Wednesday. The operation targeted SocksEscort, which offered paid proxy services and…
Who is Conduent? If you asked that question this past week, you’re not alone. Hackers stole sensitive information on a sizable portion of U.S. residents from this major data processor, with the original estimate to…
Italian authorities confirmed that a journalist who was alerted by WhatsApp last year of a suspected spyware attack on his phone was indeed hacked. In a press release sent to journalists on Thursday, the public…
On Saturday, U.S. and Israeli jets began a bombing campaign against Iran, killing its supreme leader Ali Khamenei and several senior government officials. The attacks also hit military and civilian targets all across the country,…
A group of hacktivists calling themselves “Department of Peace” claimed to have hacked the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), leaking allegedly stolen documents online. On Sunday, the nonprofit transparency collective DDoSecrets published data relating to…
Beaumont wrote: If you can intercept and change this traffic, you can redirect the download to any location it appears by changing the URL in the property. This traffic is supposed to be over HTTPS,…
The London High Court awarded a Saudi satirist and human rights activist more than £3 million ($4.1 million USD) in damages on Monday after finding “compelling evidence” that his phone had been hacked with government-grade…
For more than a decade, dozens of journalists and human rights activists have been targeted and hacked by governments all over the world. Cops and spies in Ethiopia, Greece, Hungary, India, Mexico, Poland, Saudi Arabia,…
If a mail account is compromised, hackers can not only read messages, but also reset passwords and take over other accounts. This makes it all the more important to take an immediate and structured approach…