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After fining British Airways with a record fine of £183 million earlier this week, the UK’s data privacy regulator is now planning to slap world’s biggest hotel chain Marriott International with a £99 million ($123 million) fine under GDPR over 2014 da… Continue reading Marriott Faces $123 Million GDPR Fine Over Starwood Data Breach
A 23-year-old hacker from Utah who launched a series of DDoS attacks against multiple online services, websites, and online gaming companies between December 2013 and January 2014 has been sentenced to 27 months in prison.
Austin Thompson, a.k.a. “Der… Continue reading DDoS Attacker Who Ruined Gamers’ Christmas Gets 27 Months in Prison
An anonymous security researcher going by the name of SandboxEscaper today publicly shared a second zero-day exploit that can be used to bypass a recently patched elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows operating system.
SandboxE… Continue reading Hacker Discloses Second Zero-Day to Bypass Patch for Windows EoP Flaw
Security researchers have discovered multiple critical vulnerabilities in a popular IPTV middleware platform that is currently being used by more than a thousand regional and international online media streaming services to manage their millions of sub… Continue reading Critical Flaws Found in Widely Used IPTV Software for Online Streaming Services
I have said it before, and I will say it again — Smart devices are one of the dumbest technologies, so far, when it comes to protecting users’ privacy and security.
As more and more smart devices are being sold worldwide, consumers should be aware of … Continue reading SUPRA Smart TV Flaw Lets Attackers Hijack Screens With Any Video
Wohooo! Great news for privacy-focused users.
Tor Browser, the most popular privacy-focused browser, for Android is finally out of beta, and the first stable version has now arrived on Google Play Store for anyone to download.
The Tor Project announc… Continue reading Tor Browser for Android — First Official App Released On Play Store
Elastic, the company behind the most widely used enterprise search engine ElasticSearch and the Elastic Stack, today announced that it has decided to make core security features of the Elastic Stack free and accessible to all users.
ELK Stack or Elast… Continue reading Core Elastic Stack Security Features Now Available For Free Users As Well
The German software company behind TeamViewer, one of the most popular software in the world that allows users to access and share their desktops remotely, was reportedly compromised in 2016, the German newspaper Der Spiegel revealed today.
TeamViewer… Continue reading Report Reveals TeamViewer Was Breached By Chinese Hackers In 2016
Though once synonymous with underground networks and black hat hackers, bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have gone mainstream over the past two years.
In 2017, we saw the skyrocket of bitcoin to an all-time high of close to $20,000 followed by a sig… Continue reading Cryptocurrency Hacks Still Growing — What Does That Mean for the Industry?
A bug hunter has discovered and publicly disclosed details of an unpatched browser address bar spoofing vulnerability that affects popular Chinese UC Browser and UC Browser Mini apps for Android.
Developed by Alibaba-owned UCWeb, UC Browser is one of … Continue reading Unpatched Flaw in UC Browser Apps Could Let Hackers Launch Phishing Attacks