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Credit to Author: Sushmita Kalashikar| Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2018 11:53:39 +0000

The afternoon of September 28th 2018 brought in a wave of shock for 50 million Facebook users, when they found themselves logged out of Facebook!! In one of the worst data breach attacks in the history of Facebook, over 90 million users on Friday afternoon, were forced to log out…

Kaspersky Security

September 28, 2018 admin

What do you need to do about the recent Facebook security breach?

Credit to Author: Alex Perekalin| Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2018 20:50:27 +0000

Facebook has been breached September 28, malefactors stole access keys to some 50,000,000 accounts. Quick security tips on what you should do about it.

MalwareBytes Security

September 28, 2018 admin

Millions of accounts affected in latest Facebook hack

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2018 19:39:11 +0000

Facebook announced earlier today that its social network had been breached, resulting in 40 million accounts that were directly impacted. Learn more as the Facebook breach story develops.

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MalwareBytes Security

September 14, 2018 admin

Is two-factor authentication (2FA) as secure as it seems?

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2018 15:00:00 +0000

Two factor authentication (2fa) was introduced to enhance login security, but does it always work as advertised? Or can it be bypassed?

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Kaspersky Security

September 13, 2018 admin

Transatlantic Cable podcast, episode 54

Credit to Author: Jeffrey Esposito| Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 15:45:57 +0000

This edition of the Kaspersky Lab podcast looks at the latest — a British Airways hack and Facebook’s litigation.

Kaspersky Security

September 6, 2018 admin

Are you OK with Facebook being a middleman between you and your bank?

Credit to Author: Tim Ayling| Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2018 16:25:04 +0000

Facebook wants to be your financial service and wants your banking data. But do you want Facebook to have it?

MalwareBytes Security

September 5, 2018 admin

A week in security (August 20 – August 26)

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2018 17:06:17 +0000

A roundup of the security news from August 20 – 26, including a look at insider threats, several breaches, and what tech giants Google and Facebook are doing about their privacy issues.

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Independent Krebs

September 4, 2018 admin

For 2nd Time in 3 Years, Mobile Spyware Maker mSpy Leaks Millions of Sensitive Records

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2018 17:22:41 +0000

mSpy, the makers of a software-as-a-service product that claims to help more than a million paying customers spy on the mobile devices of their kids and partners, has leaked millions of sensitive records online, including passwords, call logs, text messages, contacts, notes and location data secretly collected from phones running the stealthy spyware. Less than a week ago, security researcher Nitish Shah directed KrebsOnSecurity to an open database on the Web that allowed anyone to query up-to-the-minute mSpy records for both customer transactions at mSpy’s site and for mobile phone data collected by mSpy’s software. The database required no authentication.