Messages from 81,000 hacked Facebook accounts reportedly up for sale | Cyber Security
Hackers are reportedly offering to sell private messages from at least 81,000 Facebook accounts.
Many of the compromised accounts belong to Facebook…
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Popular browsers made to cough up browsing history | Cyber Security
Anonymous Coward, in commenting on a report from The Register about vulnerabilities that expose people’s browsing histories, pithily sums up…
YAPBS – Yet Another Password Breach Scam | Cyber Security
Back in July, I wrote about the sextortion scam that had been circulating for a while. A new wave was spreading, and I’d seen multiple people taking…
Two New Bluetooth Chip Flaws Expose Millions of Devices to Remote Attacks | Cyber Security
Security researchers have unveiled details of two critical vulnerabilities in Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) chips embedded in millions of access points…
Redefining the Meaning of Operational Risk | Cyber Security
The definition of “operational risk” is variable, but it generally covers the risk of loss resulting from inadequate or failed internal processes,…
Hackers Stole Data on 64,000 Tomorrowland Festival | Cyber Security
Hackers have obtained data on 64,000 festival attendees from the 2014 edition of Tomorrowland. The popular electronic music festival in Europe…
How one man could have taken over any business on Facebook | Cyber Security
The flaws in Facebook’s social network just keep coming. The latest one, luckily discovered and reported by a white hat researcher, enabled anyone on…
Unpatched MS Word Flaw Could Allow Hackers to Infect Your Computer | Cyber Security
Cybersecurity researchers have revealed an unpatched logical flaw in Microsoft Office 2016 and older versions that could allow an attacker to embed…
Researchers exploit Microsoft Word through embedded video | Cyber Security
A group of researchers has found a way to infect computers via Word documents without triggering a telltale security warning. The attack exploits…
Windows 10 UWP bug could give malicious devs access to all your files | Cyber Security
Microsoft has quietly fixed a bug in the on-hold Windows 10 October 2018 Update that in earlier versions wasn’t telling users when apps requested…