Data Privacy Day

4 Data Privacy Day Tips

It’s Data Privacy Day, so here are a few quick and easy data privacy related activities you can do to protect your identity and...

Happy Data Privacy Day: City Planning Now Mines Everyone’s Data All...

Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary of Google’s parent company Alphabet, is the go-to story for Data Privacy Day with its new “user-friendly” tool called Replica,...
Trojan Ho

Trojans and Spyware Are Making a Comeback

Trojan horse-based malware attacks and spyware rose sharply in 2018 as ransomware-based attacks declined, according to a new report published by Malwarebytes. One of...
shodan

Personal Information of 4 Million Intern Applications Exposed

The personal data of 4 million applicants for internships at a non-profit organization was exposed in a breach. The data included the applicants’ names,...
Phishing quiz

Google Creates “Phishing Quiz” for Better Cyber Hygiene

A Google offshoot is trying to teach people to be more circumspect about phishing attempts. Jigsaw, an incubator owned by Google parent company Alphabet,...

Skip the New Year’s Resolution and Change Your Passwords

According to a study published in December by SplashData of the more than 5 million passwords compromised by hacks last year, way too many...
Collection #1

Collection #1 Mega Breach Leaks 773 Million Email Accounts

A gigantic trove of email addresses and passwords containing over 2 billion records has been discovered online. The breached data, dubbed “Collection #1” by...
Data Leak FBI

Details on FBI Investigations Leaked by Unprotected Server

A massive leak of unprotected data on a server belonging to the Oklahoma Securities Commission was discovered in December 2018. Three terabytes of data...
ID Theft / Scams Vulnerability

Government Shutdown Leaves Americans More Vulnerable to Identity Theft, Scams

U.S. citizens are more vulnerable to the effects of identity theft and scams as a result of the ongoing government shutdown. The two primary...
location tracking

AT&T, T-Mobile To Stop Selling Location Data

AT&T and T-Mobile announced that in March 2019 they would stop selling user location data to third parties. The announcements came on the heels...