In the first part of this series, I wrote about some ways to secure home networks, password creation guidelines, two-factor authentication, and mobile security. In this article, I will cover application security and OS security. As we’re becoming more...
Data breaches are unfortunate events in present digital lives. Billions of people have had their personal data exposed as data leaks increase in scale. Apart from a spectrum of collateral damage and hefty fines, the data breaches also cause...
Cybersecurity leaders from the FBI said certain state-backed threat actors broke into the U.S. research institutions, which are working on COVID-19-related research, according to a Reuters report. Tonya Ugoretz, Deputy Assistant Director at FBI and head of the bureau’s...
The cybersecurity of many businesses worldwide has been in question since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, as threat actors have used it to leverage various malicious attacks. However, the concerns seem to have elevated, as national and international...
An unsecured database is a reason for yet another major data breach incident. Researchers at vpnMentor found an open database, which belongs to fitness tech company Kinomap, exposing 42 million records (40GB data) of its users for at least...
We live in an age where privacy is hard to come by. If you go online, you’ve got sites tracking your every move. Even offline, your privacy is limited – every company you deal with wants to collect that...
The Zoom video-conferencing app has been facing privacy risks amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. There are several privacy and security concerns associated with the app that resulted in severe criticism and cyberthreats globally. Recently, Zoom came under the Indian...
A data breach by Global Affairs Canada (GCA) has exposed personally identifiable information (PII) including passport information of 247 Canadians aboard the Coronavirus affected MS Zaandam cruise ship. The unintentional data breach was caused by an “administrative error” as...
Cybersecurity firm Cyble found hackers selling over 267 million Facebook records for £500 (US$623) on dark websites and hacker forums. In a blog post, Cyble claimed that the records contain information that could allow attackers to perform spear phishing...
The U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) urged people to report suspicious emails to Suspicious Email Reporting Service (SERS) in order to prevent the growing phishing and cyberattacks amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The agency asked people to forward any...
