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2019 Worst Cyber Attacks
The year 2019 is soon going to be the past as in a few hours; the world is all set to ring into the year 2020 with a grand celebration. Coming to the cyber world, the year witnessed a lot of cyber attacks on public and private entities and some of the worst cyber attacks […]
Cyber Attack on OnePlus Online store
Chinese Smartphone maker OnePlus has made it official that data related to its consumers of the online store was hacked and accessed by unknown hackers almost two weeks ago. However, the Shenzhen based company has assured that payment information and passwords remain unaffected as the data was put on another server. The company which is […]
Data of prepaid customers of T Mobile hacked
Germany based Telecom Company T-Mobile has officially declared on Friday last week that sensitive info of its prepaid subscribers was leaked to hackers. The leaked details include social security numbers, financial data, passwords and other info related to the subscribers. However, a source from America’s top mobile services provider based on the condition of anonymity […]
Google Trending Cybersecurity news headlines for this week
1.) The first trending news headlines related to Cybersecurity is a malware spread scare in which security researchers confirm that it is being spread on mobile phones by hackers through the Android OS feature called NFC(Near Field Communication). Although Google has issued a fix to this flaw, a recent study carried out by an independent […]
Adobe Cloud Storage vulnerability leaks 7.5 Million User Account Information
American Computer Software provider Adobe witnessed an embarrassing Halloween weekend yesterday when a security researcher named Bob Diachenko, in association with Cybersecurity firm Comparitech discovered a vulnerability in its database which exposed information of more than 7.5 million users of the company’s popular Creative Cloud Subscription Service. As the information was accessible to anyone as […]
Personal data of entire 20M Ecuador populace leaked Online
Cyber Security teams working for the Ecuador government have been pressed into service to investigate sprawling data breach in which personal data of more than 20 million people was available online for access. The director of a data analytics firm named Novaestrat was arrested yesterday in this regard and will face allegations for exposing data […]
Cyber attack news headlines trending on Google
Chicago based Phillip Capital, a Commodity and Security Brokerage company has been asked to pay a penalty of $1.5 million to the federal government. US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has penalized the financial firm with a hefty fine for not protecting its database from cyber threats and not alerting the customer about a data […]
Facebook 400 million phone numbers leaked online
Mobile Phone numbers linked to more than 400 million Facebook accounts were leaked online which includes 133 million belonging to those using FB in the US, 50 Million from Vietnam, 18 million from Britain and others from rest of the world. According to a report published in TechCrunch, more than 1 million phone numbers belong […]
XKCD data breach exposes passwords of more than 560,000 users
XKCD which is owned and run by American author Randall Munroe has is reported to have become a victim of a data breach leaking passwords, usernames and IP addresses of more than 560,000 users. High placed sources say that data access to hackers took place in July this year and the company discovered the breach […]
What the 2019 AWS Security Report Tells Us About Preventing a Cloud Data Breach
This post was originally published by siri oaklander. In the wake of the recent Capital One security breach in their cloud environment on AWS, the security community is taking another look at how we approach cloud security. CloudPassage recently shared guidance in our blog, “Capital One Data Breach: Non-Technical Tips To Not Be A Headline”. Here […]
