celebrity data breach

Celebrity Data Stolen in Major Data Breach

A major entertainment and media law firm experienced a massive data breach that may have compromised the data of many celebrities including Bruce Springsteen,...

Minimizing Your Cyber Risk: Third Certainty #17

In the seventeenth installment of Third Certainty, Adam Levin explains how some services and help keep companies and their employees safe from cyber fails.
Password manager

Do Password Managers Make You More or Less Secure?

It’s World Password Day, and much like every other day of the year, the state of password security is terrible.  Despite repeated warnings from security...
Adult site leaks 7 TB of data

Indecent Exposure: 7TB of Adult Streaming User Data Unsecured on Server

Users on an adult streaming platform may have experienced the wrong kind of exposure when over seven terabytes of data was found on an...
Pharma exec credential breach

68% of Pharma Executives Have Had Credentials Breached Online

The online credentials for 68% of pharmaceutical executives analyzed for a study have been compromised recently. The study, conducted by cybersecurity firm Blackcloak, found that...
ghost

Ghost Blogging Platform Hacked To Mine Cryptocurrency

Hackers successfully breached the servers of a popular blogging platform and used them to mine cryptocurrency. Ghost, a Singapore-based blogging platform with 2,000,000 installations and...
Covid-19 scams

Cybercriminals Are Exploiting the Covid-19 Pandemic

Cybercriminals are actively targeting Covid-19 hotspots with malware and phishing campaigns, according to a new report from Bitdefender. The report, “Coronavirus-themed Threat Reports Haven’t Flattened...
e-skimming

What E-Commerce Sites Can Learn from the Covid-19 Pandemic

For the last few years, cybersecurity experts have been sounding the alarm on something called e-skimming. In this kind of attack, hackers intercept payment...
Zoom Webex

Rethinking Zoom? How WebEx, Teams, and Google Meet and Duo Compare...

If you're among the many looking for a new video conferencing tool after adding "zoombombing" to your vocabulary, you're in luck. While a one-size-fits-all solution...

New Program Allows Realtime Deepfakes on Zoom, Skype

A newly released program allows users to create real-time deepfakes on video conferencing platforms including Zoom, and Skype. Avatarify is an open-source program that can...