The FBI warns about the holiday scams. Thus, it mentioned that the $53 million lost to scammers during the 2020 holiday season could be much higher this year. And this might happen due to the impact of the pandemic. Why are holiday scams a serious thing? The…
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) decided out sanctions for cybersecurity breaches against eight firms. According to SEC, the companies have lax rules for this. Therefore, hackers managed to access and steal the data. Cybersecurity breaches SEC named…
As the password day is here to make us remember about security, Onfido shows that users have dangerous routines. The company conducted a poll in the USA, France, Germany and UK. Most of the over 3,000 respondents said that password creation was cumbersome due to security…
Before disclosing security flaws, Google’s Project Zero security team will wait 30 days more. Thus, according to the company, end-users would have enough time to patch software. 90 days to fix the security flaws Although developers will still have 90 days to fix…
Home security systems put people at risk, according to a recent F.B.I. announcement. The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation mentioned that attackers hack these systems and set them up to place fake emergency calls. The method is called “swatting.”
What is swatting and…
Twitter users can benefit from security without a phone number. So, the users can now disable SMS-based two factor authentication (2FA). This kind of authentication proved to be problematic. One of the most well-known examples is the Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey‘s account…
Two former Twitter staff were recruited by the Saudi Arabian governement to spy the critics of the regime. The prosecutors claim that two US citizens of Saudi origin accessed personal information of over 6.000 accounts in 2015. These included Omar Abdulaziz, a governement…
