If you have an account with the popular streaming service Plex, you should update your password right now. Run to your television or desktop and dispense with a new account credential immediately, lest a nefarious dark web cretin hack your account’s vital info. Yesterday, the streamer announced to customers that it had “experienced a security […]
Bank Hacking Has Doubled Since 2023 And Investors Are Getting Spooked
Financial institutions are navigating a growing cybersecurity minefield, with data breaches doubling since 2023 and increasingly affecting a company’s market confidence or regulatory standing. According to a report from AInvest, third-party breaches in the financial sector have doubled since 2023. The report also found that the average breach costs hitting $4.8 million, and insider-related incidents […]
Google Investors Surprisingly Chill About Major Data Breach
The stock of Google’s parent company ended Friday’s trading session relatively unchanged, as investors digested news of a major data leak and broader market developments. Alphabet Inc. (GOOG)’s shares closed at $213.53, up slightly from the day’s prior end price, despite Google‘s global security alert advising its 2.5 billion Gmail users to update their information […]
WhatsApp Just Patched a ‘Zero Click’ Bug Being Used to Hack Apple Users
On Friday, WhatsApp announced that it had patched a software vulnerability that was being used by unknown hackers to target specific users of Apple products and hack them with spyware. WhatsApp, which is owned by Meta, said in an advisory that the previously unknown bug “may have been exploited in a sophisticated attack against specific […]
Otter.ai Sued for Allegedly Recording Work Calls Without Consent
Otter.ai, the maker of AI-powered transcription and note-taking tools, is facing a class-action lawsuit in California over alleged privacy violations. The suit, filed Friday in federal court by San Jacinto resident Justin Brewer, claims that Otter.ai is recording private conversations without obtaining consent from all the calls’ participants and then uses those recordings to train […]
Israeli Cyber Official Arrested During Undercover Internet Crimes Against Children Sting
A high-ranking member of Israel’s cybersecurity directorate was recently arrested in Las Vegas as part of an undercover sting operation involving internet crimes against children, according to the State Department. A joint operation between city police and the FBI that targeted child sex predators resulted in the arrest of Tom Artiom Alexandrovich, a man who, […]
Get Ready, the AI Hacks Are Coming
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Hackers Can Tamper With Train Brakes Using Just a Radio, Feds Warn
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an advisory last week warning that a key train system could be hacked using nothing but a radio and a little know-how. The flaw has to do with the protocol used in a train system known as the End-of-Train and Head-of-Train. A Flashing Rear End Device (FRED), […]
Iranian and U.S. Officials Agree: WhatsApp Is the New Security Boogeyman
Iran and the U.S. may not agree on much (and may technically be at war with each other right now) but there is, apparently, one thing that officials from both countries seem to be on the same page about: WhatsApp, Meta’s ubiquitous chat app, is a data hazard and not to be trusted. Since Facebook […]
What We Know So Far About the Supposed ‘Mother of All Data Breaches’
Data breaches are so common these days that, when a new one gets announced, most web users can do little more than yawn and mutter something like “Yeah, no shit” before scrolling up to the next story in their newsfeed. This week, however, a breach was announced that was allegedly so earth-shatteringly huge that it […]