Tag: security
America’s “only conservative cell carrier” hit by data breach
American wireless telecommunications company, Patriot Mobile, suffered a data breach in which a hacker stole sensitive customer information. According to TechCrunch, which verified the authenticity of the stolen data, an unnamed hacker grabbed people’s information, including full names, email addresses, home ZIP codes and account PINs. At this time, there…
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Grindr is the second-most banned social app—how to unblock it
Grindr, the world’s largest dating app for the LGBTQ+ community, is the second most blocked social media platform outside of India. This means that gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people across 12 countries worldwide cannot access the popular app unless they are using one of the best VPN services. This…
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Google slams Microsoft security failures, offers software discounts in bid to poach customers
As the US Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) are whipping Microsoft for poor cybersecurity practices, Google is rummaging through its belongings for any valuable customers it might snag. Earlier this week, the search engine giant published a new whitepaper titled “A more…
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Fluent Bit vulnerability threatens almost all popular cloud platforms
Cybersecurity researchers from Tenable discovered a critical vulnerability in Fluent Bit which allows malicious actors to run denial-of-service attacks, or execute bad code, remotely. Fluent Bit is a logging and metrics solution for Windows, macOS, and Linux, and embedded in all the major Kubernetes distributions, including Amazon AWS, Google GCP,…
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These students discovered a security bug that could let millions of us do laundry for free
Two students found a way to do their laundry for free, after discovering a bug in the app that accompanies the laundry machines at their college campus. Since they were honest people, they reported their findings in good faith. However, it seems that the company making the app didn’t really…
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This devious Wi-Fi security flaw could let hackers eavesdrop on your network with ease
Experts have identified a way to “confuse” your device when it tries to connect to a trusted Wi-Fi network. As a result, the device is instead connected to a rogue network, where threat actors can snoop in on network traffic and possibly even steal sensitive information passing through. A report…
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