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Faulty DoD Cybersecurity Leaves U.S. At Risk of Missile Attacks
The U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) falls short of critical cybersecurity standards, according to an audit issued by the Department of Defense Inspector...
Evidence in Marriott Breach Points to Chinese Hackers
The cyberattack on the Marriott hotel chain that exposed the information of up to 500 million guests was most likely conducted by Chinese state-affiliated...
Facebook Bug Exposes Photos of 6.8 Million Users
A bug on Facebook gave app developers unauthorized access to the photos of as many as 6.8 million users.
The bug, which affected Facebook’s...
Federal Data Privacy Bill Introduced in the Senate
A group of fifteen U.S. Senators have introduced a federal privacy bill called the Data Care Act, which has set its sights on the...
New York Times Reveals Scope of Mobile Apps’ Location Spying
A New York Times report about the ways smartphone apps track users and sell their location data (on a far greater scale than most...
Touch ID Being Used to Trick Users
Touch ID is a great way of securing your phones. Touch ID has become so widely used and accepted, it is used often used...
DarkVishnya Attacks Loot Millions from Banks
Hackers stole tens of millions of dollars from Eastern European banks in a campaign called “DarkVishnya.” The method deployed by the hackers relied on...
Internal Facebook Documents Released in UK
A trove of internal communications from senior level Facebook employees were released by a British parliamentary committee earlier this week. The documents were seized...
Mozilla Releases Annual Privacy Guide to Holiday Shopping
The Mozilla Foundation has released the second installation of *Privacy Not included, the organization’s annual privacy guide to internet-connected gifts. The list was started...
National Republican Congressional Committee Emails Breached During Midterms
Email accounts of four top officials at the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) were successfully hacked during the 2018 midterm elections.
The NRCC announced...
114 Million US Citizens and Companies Found Unprotected Online
The data of 114 million businesses and individuals has been discovered in an unprotected database. The information exposed included the full name, employer, email,...
Marriott Breach: More than 500 Million Guests Affected
Marriott announced an enormous breach of the company’s reservations database that may have potentially exposed the personally identifiable information of more than 500 million guests.
If...
Facebook Ends Its “War Room” Initiative
Facebook has shuttered its so-called war room that was to created stop foreign interference in elections, according to a Bloomberg report.
The “room” is...
CyberScout Founder Featured in Entrepreneur Magazine
"Breaches are still the third certainty in life, after death and taxes. Businesses are increasingly under attack from hackers -- who are becoming more...
Adam Levin Discusses USPS Informed Delivery Theft Scams on CBS News
Adam Levin was interviewed on CBS This Morning to discuss how the Postal Service's Informed Delivery system could be used to steal mail.
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Amazon hit with a Data Breach right before Black Friday
Amazon was hit with a data breach just days before Black Friday and Cyber Monday, the biggest shopping time of the year. The major data breach...
Internal Facebook Documents Seized by U.K. Officials
The U.K. parliament seized a set of internal documents from Facebook ahead of a major hearing with seven countries scheduled later this week regarding...
Adam Levin Shares Safe Shopping Tips with CNBC
Adam Levin was quoted in a CNBC news article on some of the ways online shoppers can protect themselves from scammers and identity thieves...
Massive Vulnerability Exposed at USPS
Krebs on Security reported a security weakness that affected millions of USPS customers. The vulnerability in question allowed anyone with an account on USPS.com...
Will Apple Serve Our Veterans, Or Expose Them to Fraud?
The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) reported a potential new partnership between Apple and the Department of Veterans Affairs that would give military veterans...