cyber security

Why You Should Stop Using Your Facebook Messenger App

If you’re one of Facebook Messenger’s 1.3 billion users, then you have just been given a serious reason to quit. While recent headlines suggest the platform is adding new security protections, there’s a nasty twist which makes this more risky than it seems, raising new questions about Facebook and its secretive backend systems. While Apple’s controversial CSAM

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Ransomware breach at Florida IT firm hits 200 businesses

WASHINGTON, July 2 (Reuters) – Hundreds of American businesses were hit Friday by an unusually sophisticated ransomware attack that hijacked widely used technology management software from a Miami-based supplier called Kaseya. The attackers changed a Kaseya tool called VSA, used by companies that manage technology at smaller businesses. They then encrypted the files of those

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A huge trove of credit card records and Social Security numbers just got hacked

Not a week goes by anymore, it seems like, when we don’t have multiple hacks to report on, as well as a fresh data breach or systems intrusion on the part of attackers constantly probing for weaknesses anywhere that consumer records are stored. Many of these episodes garner headlines simply because of the scale of the data

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