Security

US Business Shuts Down Post a Ransomware Attack

  Insights Desk   Jan 13, 2020

A fundraising company based out of Sherwood Arkansas has been forced to shut down post a crippling cyberattack that took place in October last year. According to local reports, The Heritage Company...

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Email Fraud Affects 50,000 Patients in Minnesota Hospital

  Insights Desk   Jan 13, 2020

Alomere Health operator based out of Minnesota this month started to inform patients of a data breach that affected a precise number of 49,351 individuals post a threat actor managed to gain fraudulen...

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Threat Actors Misuse Steganography-based Credit Card Skimmers to Rob Payment Card Details

  Insights Desk   Jan 09, 2020

Beware! New Steganography-based credit card readers target online retail shops. Highlights As per a report by Malwarebytes Lab, a new credit card skimmer is spotted, and the victims are the onli...

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Security Threat: Active Network, a School Software Vendor, Victim to Data Breach

  Insights Desk   Jan 03, 2020

Personal Identification Information (PII) Exposed! Yes, that is what has been recently reported about the Active Network’s Blue Bear Software. They say, earlier this year, illicit activity in its...

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Amazon is Looking to Invest and Patent a Technology that can Identify Customers through th...

  Insights Desk   Jan 03, 2020

Imagine paying for your groceries using your veins! Amazon filed a patent for technology that can identify you by merely scanning the palm of your hand, and by using a light to see beneath your ski...

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Twitter Fixes the Security Bug for Android App Accounts

  Insights Desk   Jan 02, 2020

Twitter said it fixed a critical vulnerability in Android that could allow a hacker to take over a user’s account, which, in turn, would have proved to be critical. In a recent tweet that Twitter...

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Server Leak Validated by IoT Vendor Wyze

  Insights Desk   Jan 02, 2020

In a shocking revelation by the IoT vendor Wyze, about 2.4 million user data has been exposed online over a period of 22 days. Wyze, dealing in smart devices such as smart plugs, smart light bulbs,...

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Wawa Chain Customer’s Data Compromised

  Insights Desk   Dec 30, 2019

Customers who have paid using credit or debit cards at Wawa stores over the past 9 months have been warned about the possibility of their card information being compromised. The convenience store anno...

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Ransomware Gangs now Threaten Businesses that didn’t pay up Ransom

  Insights Desk   Dec 27, 2019

As if the scourge of ransomware wasn’t evil enough, several purveyors of ransomware have now signaled to start publishing data from victims who didn’t pay up or refuse to do so. To make matters wo...

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In the Year-end, We Discuss the Worst Passwords

  Insights Desk   Dec 27, 2019

Technology has made lives easier for society, but our over-reliance on passwords proves to be one of the challenges. As the number of devices and accounts grow, there has been a surge in the people us...

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