And now the less-than-terrific news. Wireless carrier T-Mobile has confirmed that it suffered a server breach wherein attackers accessed customer data, with the recently-discovered intrusion involving personal data potentially affecting as many as two million users of the major U.S. carrier. The company published a notice to customers on its web site after T-Mobile’s cyber-security […]
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Roughly two years after their circulation, security researchers have discovered infections of macOS malware named “Calisto”. The malware was seemingly developed in 2016 and may have been a precursor to the “Proton” macOS trojan that started to circulate in 2017. Calisto functions as a trojan that takes the form of an unsigned DMG for Intego’s […]
Apple is addressing security concerns in both iOS 12 and macOS 10.14 Mojave and outlined a number of new protections at its Worldwide Developers Conference, which is taking place in San Jose, California this week. Among the new measures to be implemented is extending privacy protections to the camera, microphone, and other sensitive user data […]
This definitely qualifies as something of a goof. TeenSafe, an app designed to allow parents to monitor their children’s online activity, was noted as saving users’ Apple ID passwords in unprotected plaintext form. The information collected by TeenSafe was hosted on Amazon servers, and also included device identifiers and the email addresses of parents, crediting […]
There’s no grey area to be had here: It’s time to reset the password on your Twitter account. This advice hails from Twitter itself, which discovered an internal bug that essentially stored passwords unmasked Twitter has stated that there was no known breach of this info and offered the following comment: