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Valve has pulled a game from its online Steam store after allegations were made that it was exploiting players’ computer resources to mine for cryptocurrency. Warning bells rang for players of the game, a simple and minimalist platformer called &… Continue reading Steam game Abstractism pulled after cryptomining accusations
Why users always fall for the lamest phishing scams is beyond comprehension, but hackers take advantage of this weakness and hide their scheming behind the usual fake prizes and too-good-to-be-true giveaways. This time, it was Adidas’ turn to fea… Continue reading Adidas fans hit by phishing scam
Customers of hotels and guest houses listed on Booking.com were the target of a recent phishing scam launched by cybercriminals to steal user information, writes The Sun. Users first received WhatsApp and text messages instructing them to change their … Continue reading Booking.com partners, customers hit by phishing scam
If you believed all the headlines you would think the problem is more serious than it really is. “Beware the ‘Black Dot of Death’ that will obliterate your iPhone with one text message”, reads The Metro newspaper. “Warning… Continue reading Text bombs and “Black Dots of Death” plague WhatsApp and iMessage users
Twitter has warned its 330 million users to immediately change their passwords, as a result of a bug that caused passwords to be logged in plaintext before being hashed. Although Twitter says passwords are stored using the bcrypt hashing algorithm, it … Continue reading Twitter Plain Text Password Bug Prompts Users for Immediate Password Change
Phishing scam emails, purporting to come from Apple, are not an unusual sighting in users’ inboxes these days. Typical examples include emails that ask you to update your account information, or pretend to be a receipt for a purchase from the App… Continue reading Apple issues advice on how to spot App Store and iTunes phishing scams
Businesses beware! Online criminals have ramped up their attempts to steal W-2 information from the finance and human resources departments of organisations, according to a warning issued by the FBI. In an alert issued last week, the FBI warned that it… Continue reading Form W-2 data thefts are rocketing, warns FBI
Apple has confirmed that it is working on a bug fix that will stop apps like Messages from crashing when they attempt to display a Unicode symbol representing a letter from the south Indian language of Telugu. The Unicode-based bug has been exploited b… Continue reading “Killer text bomb” crashed iPhones, iPads, Macs, and Apple Watches
While “Nigerian princes” abound on the internet in some of the oldest known scams, there has been only one Bill Gates and one Elon Musk. Until now. Hundreds of crypto users looking to make a quick buck were scammed by criminals impersonatin… Continue reading Hackers made $5,000 a night off crypto users by impersonating Elon Musk and Bill Gates
Mozilla Firefox released an update to patch its open-source web browser after developer Johann Hofmann detected a critical HTML flaw that could allow hackers to exploit the browser remotely. The vulnerability only affected the desktop version of Firefo… Continue reading Patch released to fix Firefox arbitrary code execution vulnerability