Experts are concerned that Instagram could become a leading platform for disinformation leading up to the 2020 election. "Disinformation is increasingly based on images as opposed to text," said Paul …
Iranian Hackers Hit Over 60 Universities to Get Library Access
Between July and August of this year, Iranian state-backed hacking group Cobalt Dickens (aka Silent Librarian) targeted over 60 universities across four continents as part of a phishing campaign …
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Simjacker vulnerability actively exploited to track, spy on mobile phone owners
Threat actors are actively exploiting a security weakness in SIM cards in order to covertly collect the location information of thousands of users, new research by AdaptiveMobile Security shows. The …
IT pros worry about humans but invest in data and cloud security
In a recent Canon survey, IT professionals indicated that the top security threats to businesses are malicious insiders (30%), human error (25%), and compromised devices (21%). Respondents said the …
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198M records exposed on misconfigured database belonging to Dealer Lead
An unsecured Elasticsearch database by Dealer Leads, a provider of marketing services to the automotive industry, exposed 198 million records including full names, email addresses, phone numbers, …
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College student tried to hack into Trump’s taxes by creating a fake FAFSA application
Two US college students are facing up to two years in jail for trying to obtain unauthorized access to the tax returns of President Donald Trump. In 2016, when Trump was running for office, the …
Most consumers will refuse to work with enterprises that won’t keep their data secure
More than half of US citizens either have experienced a cyberattack in which hackers accessed their data, or know someone who experienced this, according to a new IBM survey conducted by The Harris …
Instagram Confirms Security Issue Exposed User Accounts And Phone Numbers
A recently uncovered vulnerability in Instagram's contact importer could have allowed threat actors to access private user data including full names, phone numbers and Instagram account numbers and …
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Major Groupon, Ticketmaster Fraud Scheme Exposed By Insecure Database
Researchers with vpnMentor recently uncovered an unsecured database exposing 17 million emails to the Internet. When they tried to trace and alert the owner, they discovered that the leaky server was …
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D-Link, Comba network gear leave passwords open for potentially whole world to see
Security researchers with Trustwave have discovered that certain DSL modems and Wi-Fi routers produced by D-Link and Comba expose user passwords to the Internet as the result of various firmware …