Dec 12, 2016 | Buying Security Products, General Security
Netgear has just acknowledged an very embarrassing security bug that exists in a number of its home routers, probably including at a minimum the R6400, R7000 and R8000 models of their latest home routers. The bug is quite easy to explain, and it has been officially...
Dec 9, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches
This week, the 24-year-old hacker Alonzo Knowles was sentenced to five years in prison after being found guilty in a case involving the hacking of female celebrities’ online accounts. Knowles didn’t stop at stealing what he found in the hacked accounts. He attempted...
Dec 6, 2016 | General Security
In what most employers would consider a ‘nightmare scenario’ an ex-employee took down the network of an ISP and caused them to be offline for a week. This employee was finally sentenced this week to 2 years in prison and fined $26,000 for the incident in...
Dec 6, 2016 | Data Breaches
More than 87 Million accounts associated with video-sharing site Dailymotion, one of the biggest video platforms in the world, have been stolen in another “mega-breach”. An unknown hacker has extracted all 87.6 million email addresses and usernames from...
Dec 5, 2016 | Cyber-Crime
Ransomware seems to have maintained its attractiveness among cybercriminals, steadily growing on multiple operating system platforms – including mobile since 2014. Android users have been targeted by various versions of this extorting malware, most frequently by the...
