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Govt. Officials in 20 Nations Targeted Via Whatsapp: Report
2019-11-01 17:33

News Comes After Facebook Sues NSO Group, Alleging SpyingSenior government officials in at least 20 countries, including the U.S. and India, were targeted earlier this year with hacking software...

Belgian city slurps mobile data to track visitors – report
2019-10-31 11:52

Local regulator says it hasn't approved scheme. Meanwhile, Spain up to similar tricks The Belgian city of Kortrijk in West Flanders is reportedly using data provided by a mobile phone company to...

42 Phony Google Play Apps Delivered Adware: Report
2019-10-25 20:18

Fake Apps Downloaded More Than 8 Million Times, ESET Researchers SaySome 42 apps that were available in the Google Play store had been delivering adware to Android devices for about a year,...

Antivirus hid more than 9,000 'cybercrime' reports from UK cops, says watchdog
2019-10-24 16:18

Detailed info wound up in quarantine Just one of Britain's 43 police forces treats online crime as a priority – while the Action Fraud organisation managed to withhold 9,000 so-called cyber-crime...

Report: Billtrust Recovering From Ransomware Attack
2019-10-23 21:18

A Customer of Cloud-Based Payment Provider Provides Some DetailsBilltrust, a cloud-based, business-to-business payment provider, reportedly is continuing to recover from a ransomware attack that...

Unsecure Database Exposed US Military Personnel Data: Report
2019-10-22 19:18

Exposed Database Owned by AutoClerk Hotel Reservation Management SystemAn unsecure database belonging to a company that provides hotel reservation management technology exposed about 179 GB of...

Outdated OSs Still Present in Many Industrial Organizations: Report
2019-10-22 10:10

ATLANTA — SECURITYWEEK 2019 ICS CYBER SECURITY CONFERENCE — Outdated and unsupported operating systems are still present and they still pose a serious risk in many industrial organizations,...

TorGuard, NordVPN Respond to Breach Reports
2019-10-21 18:39

VPN providers TorGuard and NordVPN have responded to reports that their systems have been breached, and both blame the incident on a third-party service provider. Hackers have leaked private RSA...

Phony Company Used to Plant macOS Malware: Report
2019-10-16 21:03

Malware Designed to Infect Devices of Cryptocurrency Exchange EmployeesSecurity researchers have found that a hacking group, which may have North Korean ties, recently created a phony company...