“Sad announcement” email implies your friend has died People are receiving disturbing emails that appear to imply something has happened to their friend or family member. It’s a scam...
The Data Protection Commission has fined Meta $101M because 600 million Facebook and Instagram passwords were stored in plaintext.
Continue Reading...October 1, 2024
Meta has admitted to scraping Australian Facebook users' public photos, posts, and other data to train its AI models, including those of kids on adult users' profiles.
Continue Reading...September 12, 2024
Google has taken a new turn in its approach to eliminating third-party cookies. This time it's back to the Privacy Sandbox...
Continue Reading...July 23, 2024
The Arkansas Attorney General has filed a lawsuit against web shop Temu for allegedly being dangerous malware looking to collect personal data.
Continue Reading...June 28, 2024
[updated] Federal Reserve “breached” data may actually belong to Evolve Bank June 26, 2024 – LockBit claimed to have breached Federal Reserve but in fact the data came from Evolve Bank & Trust
Continue Reading...June 26, 2024
IntelBroker is offering source code from major companies for sale. Are they demonstrating the value of a zero-day they are also selling?
Continue Reading...June 21, 2024
The FTC has referred a complaint against TikTok and its parent company ByteDance to the Department of Justice over violations of children’s privacy in the US.
Continue Reading...June 20, 2024
This week, news broke that Ticketmaster had allegedly been breached and 560 million customers’ data had been put up for sale online. The data is said to include...
Continue Reading...May 30, 2024
Scammers can easily phish your multi-factor authentication codes - Phishers are using new ‘authentication-in-the-middle' techniques to dupe victims into providing their login and MFA credentials. Here’s how it works.
Continue Reading...May 16, 2024
Dell is warning its customers about a data breach after a cybercriminal offered a 49 million-record database about customers on a cybercrime forum.
Continue Reading...May 10, 2024
Researchers found fake sponsored search results that lead consumers to a typical fake Microsoft alert site set up by tech support scammers.
Continue Reading...May 2, 2024
Ring will pay $5.6 million over charges that the company allowed employees to access customers’ private videos.
Continue Reading...April 25, 2024
TikTok comes one step closer to a US ban The US Senate has approved a bill that will ban TikTok, unless it finds a new owner, bringing it one step closer to being signed into law.
Continue Reading...April 24, 2024
UnitedHealth has made an announcement about the stolen data in the ransomware attack on its subsidiary Change Healthcare.
Continue Reading...April 23, 2024
An internet scraping platform is offering access to a database filled with over four billion Discord messages and combined user profiles.
Continue Reading...April 22, 2024
Apple has sent alerts to individuals in 92 nations to say it's detected that they may have been a victim of a mercenary attack.
Continue Reading...April 15, 2024
With all the recent talk of the AT&T breach and other big breaches that have come before, it’s no wonder people are questioning how to change their SSN. We explain how.
Continue Reading...April 12, 2024
Federal authorities have told Google to reveal the identities of people that watched certain videos on YouTube.
Continue Reading...March 26, 2024
Vans has warned its customers about phishing and other scams after a ransomware attack led to a data breach.
Continue Reading...March 25, 2024
A hoax telling people to copy and paste a copyright notice on Facebook has been making the rounds since 2012. Now, it’s back again.
Continue Reading...March 13, 2024
Information newly made available under California law has shed light on data broker practices, including exactly which categories of information they trade in.
Continue Reading...March 11, 2024
One of our researchers was targeted by a scammer advertising on Airbnb and hosting a fake Tripadvisor website.
Continue Reading...February 29, 2024
Personal data belonging to Facebook Marketplace users has been published online, according to BleepingComputer.
Continue Reading...February 15, 2024
In what seems like yet another attempt to adapt its platform to prepare for new regulations, Facebook has started rolling out a new feature called Link History.
Continue Reading...January 29, 2024
A major mortgage and loan company based in Dallas, working under the name Mr. Cooper Group Inc. has released more information on a recent breach.
Continue Reading...December 19, 2023
Amazon customers have been seeing a message on social media that has caused some alarm.Most of the posts look like one of these (depending on the social media platform):
Continue Reading...December 11, 2023
Many people don’t realize that the instant alert push notifications you get on your phone are routed through Google or Apple’s servers, depending on which device you use.
Continue Reading...December 7, 2023
The FBI has issued a warning that cybercriminals are embedding malicious code in mobile beta-testing apps in attempts to defraud potential victims.
Continue Reading...August 16, 2023
The European Data Protection Board is expected to fine TikTok for violating the privacy of young children within the next four weeks.
Continue Reading...August 7, 2023