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Rewind: Biggest Cyber Incidents We Saw in 2019
By Rudra Srinivas
If there is a thing or two that we can learn from the year that went by, it is the fact that...
2.7 Billion Email Addresses Exposed Online
Researchers noticed a huge database containing email addresses and passwords left online without password protection.
A joint investigation by cybersecurity firm Comparitech and security researcher...
6 Times Data Regulators Churned Out High Penalties in 2019
By Rudra Srinivas
Data breaches and security incidents are becoming increasingly expensive. The risk of data breaches got higher after introducing the European Union’s General...
TrueDialog Database Exposes Tens of Millions of SMS Data
Around ten million text messages were exposed by an unprotected database run by an American-based communications company, TrueDialog.
Security experts Noam Rotem and Ran Locar...
Attackers Using Facebook’s Ads Manager as Cyberespionage Tool
A newly discovered Trojan, dubbed Socelars, allows bad actors to access Facebook advertisements, the Bleeping Computer reported.
The issue came to light after a security...
TikTok Stealthily Transferring Users’ Data to China: Lawsuit
Popular video-sharing app TikTok recently hit with a class-action lawsuit in the U.S. claiming that the company has been surreptitiously transferring users’ data to Chinese servers,...