Unsecured Adobe Server Exposes Data for 7.5 Million Creative Cloud Users

The U.S. multinational computer software company Adobe has suffered a serious security breach earlier this month that exposed user records’ database belonging to the company’s popular Creative Cloud service.

With an estimated 15 million subscribers, A… Continue reading Unsecured Adobe Server Exposes Data for 7.5 Million Creative Cloud Users

New Cache Poisoning Attack Lets Attackers Target CDN Protected Sites

A team of German cybersecurity researchers has discovered a new cache poisoning attack against web caching systems that could be used by an attacker to force a targeted website into delivering error pages to most of its visitors instead of legitimate c… Continue reading New Cache Poisoning Attack Lets Attackers Target CDN Protected Sites

NordVPN Breach FAQ – What Happened and What’s At Stake?

NordVPN, one of the most popular and widely used VPN services out there, yesterday disclosed details of a security incident that apparently compromised one of its thousands of servers based in Finland.

Earlier this week, a security researcher on Twitt… Continue reading NordVPN Breach FAQ – What Happened and What’s At Stake?

Chrome for Android Enables Site Isolation Security Feature for All Sites with Login

After enabling ‘Site Isolation’ security feature in Chrome for desktops last year, Google has now finally introduced ‘the extra line of defence’ for Android smartphone users surfing the Internet over the Chrome web browser.

In brief, Site Isolation is… Continue reading Chrome for Android Enables Site Isolation Security Feature for All Sites with Login

Feds Shut Down Largest Dark Web Child Abuse Site; South Korean Admin Arrested

The United States Department of Justice said today that they had arrested hundreds of criminals in a global crackdown after taking down the largest known child porn site on the dark web and tracing payments made in bitcoins.

With an international coal… Continue reading Feds Shut Down Largest Dark Web Child Abuse Site; South Korean Admin Arrested

Adobe Releases Out-of-Band Security Patches for 82 Flaws in Various Products

No, it’s not a patch Tuesday.

It’s the third Tuesday of the month, and as The Hacker News shared an early heads-up late last week on Twitter, Adobe today finally released pre-announced out-of-band security updates to patch a total of 82 security vulne… Continue reading Adobe Releases Out-of-Band Security Patches for 82 Flaws in Various Products

Firefox Blocks Inline and Eval JavaScript on Internal Pages to Prevent Injection Attacks

In an effort to mitigate a large class of potential cross-site scripting issues in Firefox, Mozilla has blocked execution of all inline scripts and potentially dangerous eval-like functions for built-in “about: pages” that are the gateway to sensitive … Continue reading Firefox Blocks Inline and Eval JavaScript on Internal Pages to Prevent Injection Attacks

Apple Under Fire Over Sending Some Users Browsing Data to China’s Tencent

Do you know Apple is sending iOS web browsing related data of some of its users to Chinese Internet company Tencent?

I am sure many of you are not aware of this, neither was I, and believe me, none of us could expect this from a tech company that prom… Continue reading Apple Under Fire Over Sending Some Users Browsing Data to China’s Tencent

SIM Cards in 29 Countries Vulnerable to Remote Simjacker Attacks

Until now, I’m sure you all might have heard of the SimJacker vulnerability disclosed exactly a month ago that affects a wide range of SIM cards and can remotely be exploited to hack into any mobile phone just by sending a specially crafted binary SMS…. Continue reading SIM Cards in 29 Countries Vulnerable to Remote Simjacker Attacks

You Gave Your Phone Number to Twitter for Security and Twitter Used it for Ads

After exposing private tweets, plaintext passwords, and personal information for hundreds of thousands of its users, here is a new security blunder social networking company Twitter admitted today.

Twitter announced that the phone numbers and email ad… Continue reading You Gave Your Phone Number to Twitter for Security and Twitter Used it for Ads