If you had a Yahoo account in 2013, there’s a 100 percent chance that you were hacked. Yahoo’s parent company has revealed that the massive data breach that occurred in August of 2013 affective all three billion Yahoo accounts that existed at the time. Previously, Yahoo said the hack affected 1 billion accounts, or a […]
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In the annals of hacks and breaches, this is pretty epic. Yahoo confirmed on Thursday data “associated with at least 500 million user accounts” have been stolen in what may be one of the largest cybersecurity breaches ever. The company said it believes a “state-sponsored actor” was behind the data breach, meaning an individual acting […]
In the wake of a security breach, you make changes. Following the recent discovery of the InstaAgent malware, which was Instagram passwords from users, Instagram has instituted much stricter rules for accessing its API, effectively killing off a large number of apps that read Instagram feeds. Over on its developer web site, Instagram explained that […]
This may not be what Apple intended to have happen with iCloud. And there may be a patch coming for it posthaste. According to Slate, security researcher Jeffrey Paul recently noticed that Apple’s default autosave is storing in-progress files—the ones you haven’t explicitly saved yet—in the cloud, not on your hard drive. Unless you decided […]
Sometimes you’ve gotta go the two step security authentication route to keep everyone happy. Especially the celebrities. Following a rash of nude photos apparently stolen from celebrities’ iCloud accounts, Apple CEO Tim Cook said the company plans to activate new security measures designed to thwart future attacks. Per AppleInsider and the Wall Street Journal, Cook […]