Security News > 2015 > August

HTC phone stores fingerprints in easily accessible plaintext (Help Net Security)
2015-08-10 12:25

Pressing a finger on your mobile phone's fingerprint scanner has to be the easiest, most seamless way to unlock the device, and this is why more and more manufacturers equip their mobile products with...

Fraudsters steal nearly $47 million from Ubiquiti Networks (Help Net Security)
2015-08-10 10:44

US networking technology company Ubiquiti Networks has been swindled by fraudsters and has lost nearly $47 million. According to the quarterly financial report the company filed last week with the ...

Google adds another obstacle for developers of deceptive Chrome extensions (Help Net Security)
2015-08-10 09:52

Starting on September 3, Google will begin disabling inline installation (i.e. installation from the developer's website) for extensions linked to deceptive sites and ads. This is the latest in a s...

UK job recruiters network hit by hacker, user info dumped online (Help Net Security)
2015-08-10 08:38

TEAM (The Employment Agents Movement), the largest network of independent recruiters in the UK, has been hit by a Saudi Arabian hacker that goes by the online handle JM511. The hacker apparently le...

Info of 2.4 million Carphone Warehouse customers stolen (Help Net Security)
2015-08-10 08:12

Personal and financial information of 2.4 million customers of British mobile phone retailer Carphone Warehouse have likely been compromised in a breach, along with encrypted credit card details of ar...

Week in review: New OS X threats, and how to protect your privacy on Windows 10 (Help Net Security)
2015-08-10 07:20

Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news and articles: What’s the state of your software? In the face of the repeated high profile breaches of US Office of Personnel Manag...