Facebook Puts EMS Worker In The Chicken Coop For Potential HIPAA Violation
A quick, little Facebook post may have garnered an emergency medical services worker a HIPAA violation fine…if she had disclosed...
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T-Mobile Breach Makes Millions A Phishing Target
Think of all the information your mobile service carrier has about you. Your name and mobile phone number of course. They also...
North Korean Group Launches Two New RATs
The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) along with the FBI are issuing an alert to computer users about a couple of...
MyHeritage Suffers Breach Exposing Data of More Than 92 Million Customers
There are a lot of those DNA analysis companies these days. Just spit into a petri dish or prick your finger for a drop of blood...
WhatsApp Used By Terrible Burglar And Scammers To Get Your Money
It is often thought that criminals are not the sharpest sticks in the bunch. And, often they are not. Take, for instance the less...
A New Kid Topples Zeus as Most Active Banking Malware
Quarters one and two of 2018 have been a busy time for banking malware distributors. IBMs X-Force Threat Intelligence Index has...
Scammers Take Advantage Of Fans For Upcoming World Cup
If you happen to live with someone from a country other than the United States, as I do, you probably know that there is a very...
Assessment Of Mobile And Online Banking Vulnerabilities
Hold on to your passwords folks – better yet, change them all. It’s a sad fact that your (or anyone’s) banking app may be one of...
$16B in Personal Information Stolen Last Year
The dollar amounts keep going up year after year with no end in sight. Theft of personally identifiable information (PII) reached...
North Korea Invades Facebook and Google Play
Oh yes, they did. Earlier this year, three apps on Google Play were discovered linked to North Korea (NK). Two were disguised as...
Protecting Personal Data Opens a Can of Worms for the EU
Kudos to the European Union (EU) for taking on personal data protection standards. However, defining just what “personal data” is...
Chrome Gets A Malware Catching Boost With Help From Microsoft
Even Microsoft is jumping on the bandwagon to make Google’s Chrome browser even better. While Windows does have its own, and...