Tag: security

The Slack team collaboration and instant messaging platform is currently experiencing a worldwide outage caused by performance degradation issues impacting users from all over the world, with multiple services reportedly being down. […]

An unsecured MongoDB instance belonging to health insurance marketing website MedicareSupplement.com was discovered online last month containing as many as 5 million records. The data cache included personal information as well as health details. […]

A new exploit kit that researchers named Spelevo has emerged recently targeting a certain category of victims and infect their computer systems with two banking trojans. […]

Law enforcement agencies in Europe arrested a group of six individuals for emptying cryptocurrency wallets of at least 4,000 victims by setting up a website that impersonated Blockchain.com. […]

A teen coder and his team developed a new malware named Silex that bricked poorly protected IoT devices by the thousands in a short period of time. […]

A family of banking trojans for Android has spread beyond Russia, a region it normally targeted, and operates in an aggressive way to replace the default SMS app and deploy phishing screens on compromised devices. […]

Computer security is such a serious business with the risk of financial harm, data loss, and hardware damage that it can be a nice change of pace to run into a scam that brings a chuckle. Such is the case with a phishing scam that pretends to be an email informing you that Google has […]