Following up on last Wednesday’s story about the massive data leak that appears to have captured the personal data of everyone in the U.S., U.K., and Canada, the situation may be even worse than originally thought. The leak, which was originally estimated to have compromised about 2.7 billion records, and the data itself was hosted […]
This probably isn’t the news Microsoft wanted. Per security firm Cisco Talos, no less than six Microsoft applications contain security vulnerabilities that could allow a hacker to “gain any privileges already granted to the affected Microsoft applications,” per a report by the security firm. The apps affected include Microsoft Excel, OneNote, Outlook, PowerPoint, Teams, and […]
Per Restore Privacy, wireless carrier AT&T has had personal data stolen from some 70 million customer records, albeit the company has stated the data isn’t really from their subscribers. The data includes names, phone numbers, social security numbers, birth dates, and physical addresses. The hacker, named ShinyHunters, is trying to sell the database for $1 […]
If you’re interested in security, you’ll like this. Wikileaks has just Wikileaks published two more Mac exploits from the so-called CIA Vault 7 under the name Project Imperial. The new exploits—Achilles and SeaPea—affect older versions of OS X, such as Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and Mac OS X 10.7 Lion. The exploits behave […]
Verizon was able to save even more money following Yahoo’s email hacks. The telecommunications company announced a deal to buy the core business of Yahoo for $4.48 billion —managing to secure a $350 million discount it was pursuing because of two major security breaches, the last of which affected over 1 billion accounts. The deal […]