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Israel's Entire Voter Registry Exposed in Massive Incident

Personal details of nearly 6.5 million Israelis were out in the open after the entire registry was uploaded to an notably insecure app.

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Active PayPal Phishing Scam Targets SSNs, Passport Photos

Phishing emails have been uncovered that request a full rundown of personal data - even asking for photos of passports.

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Software error exposes the ID numbers for 1.26 million Danish citizens

Danish tax portal accidentally shares tax payer identification numbers with Google and Adobe analytics services.

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China's Military Behind 2017 Equifax Breach: DoJ

Four members of China's People Liberation Army hacked the information broker, leading to the theft of sensitive data on approximately 145 million citizens.

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Equifax Breach: Four Members of Chinese Military Charged with Hacking

Feds have charged four members of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) in connection with the infamous 2017 Equifax breach.

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Unlocked S3 Bucket Lets 36,077 Jail Files Escape

The leaky repository belongs to JailCore, a cloud management and compliance platform used in several states' correctional facilities.

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Unlocked S3 Bucket Lets 36,077 Prison Files Escape

The leaky repository belongs to JailCore, a cloud management and compliance platform used in several states' correctional facilities.

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6 Factors That Raise The Stakes For IoT Security

Developments that exacerbate the risk and complicate making Internet of Things devices more secure.

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Docker Registries Expose Hundreds of Orgs to Malware, Data Theft

Misconfigured Docker registries could leak confidential data, lead to a full-scale compromise and interrupt the business operations.”

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Emotet Now Hacks Nearby Wi-Fi Networks to Spread Like a Worm

The new tactic used by Emotet allows the malware to infect nearby insecure Wi-Fi networks - and their devices - via brute force loops.

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DOJ charges four Chinese military hackers for Equifax hack

DOJ said the hackers stole data on Americans and Equifax's intellectual property.

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Day in the Life of a Bot

A typical workday for a bot, from its own point of view.

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Altsbit plans exit after hack leaves cryptocurrency exchange out of pocket

Only a token amount of cryptocurrency was kept safe in cold wallets.

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Lock My PC takes on tech scammers with free recovery key offering, software withdrawal

The legitimate software is being abused by scammers seeking to exhort payment from victims.

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Two-Step Verification

Two-step verification is one of the best steps you can take to secure any account. Two-step verification is when you require both a password and code sent to or generated by your mobile device. Examples of services that support two-step verification include Gmail, Dropbox and Twitter.

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Netanyahu's party exposes data on over 6.4 million Israelis

The app's website exposed a link to an API endpoint that was left without a password, allowing third-parties to obtain passwords for admin accounts.

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FBI is investigating more than 1,000 cases of Chinese theft of US technology

US officials talk about all the methods the Chinese government and its agents have been using to target US companies and universities to steal intellectual property.

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Dangerous Domain Corp.com Goes Up for Sale

As an early domain name investor, Mike O'Connor had by 1994 snatched up several choice online destinations, including bar.com, cafes.com, grill.com, place.com, pub.com and television.com. Some he sold over the years, but for the past 26 years O'Connor refused to auction perhaps the most sensitive domain in his stable -- corp.com. It is sensitive because years of testing shows whoever wields it would have access to an unending stream of passwords, email and other proprietary data belonging to hundreds of thousands of systems at major companies around the globe.

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Windows 7 bug prevents users from shutting down or rebooting computers

Another major bug hits Windows 7 after the January 14 end-of-life (EOL) deadline.

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Hackers deface Facebook's official Twitter and Instagram accounts

After hitting the NFL and ESPN, OurMine returns to strike at Facebook properties.