By Uzair Amir

A cyber attack can cripple critical infrastructure and businesses and generate negative press. In other cases, it could open you and your business to litigation. This and other factors can seriously hurt a business, and it forces many of them to pay for data recovery or IT security services to undo the damage. However, many […]

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By Uzair Amir

Excitement is mounting among gamers as Microsoft and Sony continue to tease tantalizing details of their upcoming next-generation console releases. The PlayStation 5 is expected to launch towards the end of 2020 and lead architect Mark Cerny has already revealed details of the powerful specs that fans can look forward to. The current consensus among […]

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Tales from the honeypot: this time a MySQL-based attack. Old tricks still work, because we're still making old mistakes - here's what to do.

The Web site for Fortune 500 real estate title insurance giant First American Financial Corp. [NYSE:FAF] leaked hundreds of millions of documents related to mortgage deals going back to 2003, until notified this week by KrebsOnSecurity. The digitized records -- including bank account numbers and statements, mortgage and tax records, Social Security numbers, wire transaction receipts, and drivers license images -- were available without authentication to anyone with a Web browser.

After a report found that Snap employees were abusing their access to Snapchat data, experts are warning that insider threats will continue to be a top challenge for privacy.

New .htaccess injector threat on Joomla and WordPress websites redirects to malicious websites.

By Uzair Amir

BestMixer.io was among the three largest cryptocurrency mixing services launched in May 2018. Europol in collaboration with the Dutch Fiscal Information and Investigative Service (FIOD), Luxembourg has shut down a well-known and one of the world’s leading cryptocurrency tumblers BestMixer.io. The bitcoin transaction mixer was shut down officially on May 22. The operation against cryptocurrency […]

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The Windows 10 update that's rolling out addresses insecure Wi-Fi hotspots with new user notifications.

Qt framework exploited to take full control of Windows devices

Stolen login used to access the health records of 3.5m patients