Tag: security
This worrying cyberattack targets one of the key protocols propping up the whole internet
Different devices, all over the internet, could be vulnerable to endpoint takeover, due to running a decades-old encryption protocol, experts have warned. Academic researchers Sharon Goldberg, Miro Haller, Nadia Heninger, Mike Milano, Dan Shumow, Marc Stevens, and Adam Suhl recently published a paper detailing how multiple devices, including industrial controllers,…
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Neiman Marcus data breach exposed millions of user email addresses
It appears the recent breach at Neiman Marcus is a lot bigger than the company claims, with millions of customers possibly affected. The company confirmed the incident in a breach notification filed with the Office of the Maine Attorney General, but in the same filing said that the breach impacted…
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Google is making its dark web monitoring tool free for everyone to use
Google is making its dark web report feature available to all Google Account holders. Previously only available to Google One subscribers, the feature, designed to help users monitor if their personal information has been spotted in data breaches, will be integrated into the ‘results about you’ section of the Google…
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Careful, that jQuery package could be loaded with Trojans
Hackers are, once again, targeting software developers through a “complex and persistent” supply chain attack. Recently, cybersecurity researchers from Phylum discovered a new campaign in which unidentified hackers distributed dozens of malicious libraries on different code repositories, including npm, GitHub, and jsDelivr. All of these libraries impersonated jQuery, a small,…
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Roblox reveals data breach that may have affected some of its biggest fans
People who visited Roblox developer conferences in the last three years have just had their sensitive data leak on the dark web. Roblox is a gaming and game development platform used by some 200 million people. Every year, it holds the Roblox Developer Conference (RDC), where devs and players gather…
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Microsoft tells staff in China they can’t use Android phones anymore, must switch to iPhone
To log into company systems, Microsoft employees in China will now have to use authentication apps installed exclusively on iPhone devices. This is part of Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative announced late last year, 9to5Mac reports. The change apparently takes effect in September this year, and was said to affect “hundreds”…
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