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Zynga Faces Lawsuit Over Massive Words with Friends Breach
2020-03-05 20:42

Mobile game developer Zynga could face a class-action lawsuit stemming from a massive data breach last September, which impacted 218 million users of the Words with Friends mobile app. According to a third-party analysis, that data included names, emails, user IDs, salted passwords, password reset tokens, Zynga account IDs, and connections to Facebook and other social media services.

Zynga faces class action suit over massive Words With Friends hack
2020-03-05 11:03

Zynga - maker of addictive online social games such as FarmVille, Mafia Wars, Café World and Zynga Poker - is facing a potential class action lawsuit over the September 2019 breach in which hackers got access to more than 218 million Words with Friends accounts. Zynga admitted to the breach at the time, saying that hackers got their hands on "Certain player account information" but that, at least during the early stages of its investigation, it didn't think any financial information was accessed.

S2 Ep22: Word doc stops fraud, bye bye Python 2, latest from the ransomware swamp – Naked Security Podcast
2020-01-09 12:25

This week we discuss the IT exec who scammed his employer out of $6m with fake invoices and the death of Python. Peter also shares two of his latest investigations from the ransomware swamp.

IT exec sets up fake biz, uses it to bill his bosses $6m for phantom gear, gets caught by Microsoft Word metadata
2020-01-04 01:24

A now-former senior IT exec has admitted conning his employer out of $6m - by setting up a fake tech services biz that billed his bosses for bogus services. Back in 2015, Kabbaj set up a shell company called Interactive Systems that was pitched as an IT services provider, but was in fact little more than a business name and a bank account.

218 million Words With Friends players lose data to hackers
2019-10-02 12:20

The serial hacker GnosticPlayers is claiming to have ransacked Zynga's user data - including names, emails and passwords.

Exclusive — Hacker Steals Over 218 Million Zynga 'Words with Friends' Gamers Data
2019-09-29 09:03

A Pakistani hacker who previously who made headlines earlier this year for selling almost a billion user records stolen from nearly 45 popular online services has now claimed to have hacked the...

Four words from Cisco to strike fear into the most hardened techies: Guest account as root
2019-09-26 12:44

Now is a very good time to patch your estate Cisco has doled out yet more security updates for its IOS and IOS XE network operating systems, which, we are obliged to remind you, is its scheduled...

Now Uncle Sam would like a word with Brit teen TalkTalk hacker about a huge crypto-coin heist
2019-09-26 12:02

Someone's popular! One of the teens behind the 2015 hack on UK telco TalkTalk has been indicted in the US over a huge cryptocurrency heist.…

Nine words to ruin your Monday: Emergency Internet Explorer patch amid in-the-wild attacks
2019-09-23 21:36

Update browser ASAP after Google gurus spot miscreants abusing bug to hijack PCs Microsoft today issued a rare emergency security update for Internet Explorer to address a critical flaw in the...

Employers Beware: Microsoft Word ‘Resume’ Phish Delivers Quasar RAT
2019-08-27 18:20

A round of phishing emails purports to be from job seekers - but actually uses a slew of detection evasion tactics to download malware on victim systems.