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The Data Protection Commission has fined Meta $101M because 600 million Facebook and Instagram passwords were stored in plaintext.
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October 1, 2024
Beware before calling Apple for assistance as scammers are creating malicious ads and fake pages to lure you in.
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September 12, 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.
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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...
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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.
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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
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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?
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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.
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June 20, 2024
Announcing the latest version of Malwarebytes, which brings a faster, responsive, and consistent user interface, integrated security and privacy, and expert guidance to keep you secure.
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June 5, 2024
Malicious utility ads on Google are directing victims to call centers where scammers collect their identity and try to extort money from them.
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June 4, 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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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May 2, 2024
Malwarebytes Premium earned "Product of the Year" from AVLab for repeatedly blocking 100% of malware samples used in third-party testing.
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April 30, 2024
Ring will pay $5.6 million over charges that the company allowed employees to access customers’ private videos.
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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.
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April 24, 2024
UnitedHealth has made an announcement about the stolen data in the ransomware attack on its subsidiary Change Healthcare.
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April 23, 2024
Google ad for Facebook redirects to scam Beware of a malicious ad campaign currently making the rounds that uses Facebook's branding to lure in its victims.
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April 23, 2024
An internet scraping platform is offering access to a database filled with over four billion Discord messages and combined user profiles.
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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.
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April 15, 2024
Don't wait for an online harassment campaign to unfairly target you or a loved one. Take these proactive steps today to stay safe.
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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.
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April 12, 2024
Telecommunications giant AT&T has finally confirmed that 73 million current and former customers are caught up in a massive dark web data leak.
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April 8, 2024
Federal authorities have told Google to reveal the identities of people that watched certain videos on YouTube.
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March 26, 2024
Vans has warned its customers about phishing and other scams after a ransomware attack led to a data breach.
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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.
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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.
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March 11, 2024
Here's a little cybersecurity secret… There’s malware on Mac computers. There pretty much always has been.
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March 5, 2024
One of our researchers was targeted by a scammer advertising on Airbnb and hosting a fake Tripadvisor website.
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February 29, 2024
Malvertising made a resurgence last year, with cybercriminals creating malicious ads and websites imitating big brands like Amazon.
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February 20, 2024
Personal data belonging to Facebook Marketplace users has been published online, according to BleepingComputer.
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February 15, 2024
The 2024 tax filing season has officially begun, but watch out for malicious ads trying to trick you as you prepare to file your taxes.
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February 1, 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.
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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.
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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):
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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.
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December 7, 2023
Scammers never miss an opportunity to make a quick buck and love to piggyback on the latest trends. So what better way to kick off the scamming season than by offering Black Friday sales on one of the most popular products: a Stanley Cup?
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November 23, 2023
The FBI has issued a warning that cybercriminals are embedding malicious code in mobile beta-testing apps in attempts to defraud potential victims.
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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.
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August 7, 2023
With scams at an all-time high, here are some tips when dealing with Amazon. 1. Trust Amazon-owned channels. 2. Be wary of false urgency.
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July 25, 2023
