SF Muni Forced to Give Customers Free Rides After Ransomware Attack
Free rides are always great, but one in San Francisco recently was caused by ransomware. Over 2,000 of the Muni payment and...
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Your Quest Diagnostics Lab Results May Be in the Hands of Cyber Criminals
If you have ever had your medical tests sent to Quest Diagnostics, you may be a recent victim of a healthcare-related data...
New Bigger Yahoo Breach from 2013 Affects 1 Billion Users
Yahoo again has disclosed a massive data breach. This one is a new one and is much larger and completely separate from the one...
Scareware-as-a-Service Offered as a Package to Enterprising Criminals
Researchers at Malwarebytes found a new type of criminal business being offered by a company in India. They will sell a package...
UK National Lottery Breach Once Again Reminds Us to Use Unique and Strong Passwords
For the UK Gamblers out there, it's possible your information was stolen in a data breach of the UK National Lottery. Being...
MailChimp Swings to Deliver Malware Onto Your Device Supposedly from a News Service
It’s never fun to receive an invoice. However, it’s even less fun when the invoice has a cute little button to click and...
Gooligan Malware Takes Over Android Devices at a Rate of 13,000 Per Day
Android devices running older versions of the operating system are being exploited by a malware strain called Gooligan. It can do...
Research Finds Sharp Increase in 'Whaling'
Whalers target the big fish and impersonate them too. Spear-phishing is typically how whaling attacks are perpetrated. Usually...
Sports and Entertainment Fans Lose in Madison Square Garden Breach
Sports and entertainment fans who shopped at concessions at any of the Madison Square Garden (MSG) locations in the past year may...
Financial Trojan Targets Customers of SWIFT Messaging System
Customers of the secure global financial messaging service SWIFT are the latest targets of a financial Trojan called Odinaff. It...
New Malware Family Can Take Over Your Android Device
The world has gone mobile and so has cybercrime. The new online banking malware that is hitting mobile phones in Russia that is...
Public WiFi Still Significant Threat for Online Shopping and Banking
The warnings apparently are still not getting through. In a study by the Russian anti-virus vendor, Kaspersky, 71% of consumers...