Eight vulnerabilities would allow a range of attacker activities, including taking the Nest camera offline, sniffing out network information and device hijacking.

By Sudais

Google’s new Password checkup extension checks for leaked credentials and informs whether they have been leaked before in a data breach. In 2019, more than 20 million unique passwords among other credentials were leaked and available online for sale. This fact represents only one year since the advent of the internet and over the years […]

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While the score was up for large businesses and down for small firms, the report urges all to prioritize third-party risk management.

By Uzair Amir

The IT security researchers at ESET have discovered a nasty new malware that not only steals users' private and financial data but also keeps an eye on their browsing activities including recording their screen whenever they watch pornographic videos.

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Think disabling JavaScript makes you more secure? Think again

Think disabling JavaScript makes you more secure? Think again

Researchers say that the targeted ransomware cyberattack on 23 Texas local and state entities represents a shift from "attacks of opportunity" to more targeted, malicious attacks.

Cybercrooks increasingly are anonymizing their malicious traffic by routing it through residential broadband and wireless data connections. Most often, those connections are hacked computers, mobile phones, or home routers. But this is the story of a sprawling "bulletproof residential VPN" service that appears to have been built by acquiring chunks of Internet addresses from some the largest ISPs and mobile data providers in the United States and abroad.

Lack of standardization in handling private info allows hackers to fill in the blanks

Even though Facebook protected employees, it failed to fix the vulnerability or to protect most users, a court filing charges.