1-In-5 Internet Users Always Read Privacy Policies, But That Doesn’t Mean...
(Bruno Pieroni)Though everyone is always saying “You’ve got to read the fine print,” most of us don’t do it. According to a new study, only 16% of Internet users claim to always read privacy policies...
View ArticleReport: Almost Half Of American Adults Were Hacked In The Last Year
If you’ve felt like there hasn’t been a day in the last year without a warning of some new hack on big businesses and services you use and have had to change your passwords and keep an eye on your...
View ArticleGoogle Replacing CAPTCHAs With “I’m Not A Robot” Check Box
Almost every Internet user has come across a CAPTCHA security check — you know, the thing where you have to enter in a jumbled set of letters and numbers, often with lines drawn through them — and had...
View ArticleSecurity Vulnerability In New Kardashian Websites Coughs Up User Info For...
If you’re not up to date on all your reality TV star news, perhaps you aren’t aware that the Kardashian/Jenner sisters recently launched new mobile apps and redesigned websites to stay even more...
View ArticleCrowdfunding Site Patreon Hacked, 15GB Of Donor Info Dumped Online
Patreon, a website that allows donors to give regularly to sites, artists, projects and other creators, yesterday evening that it’d been hit by a hack attack that accessed some registered names, email...
View ArticleBanks Ditching Online Security Images Some Experts Call “Worse Than Useless”
When you log into your bank account online, you might see an image of a birdhouse, or a teapot, or some other object you selected when you signed up. Those pictures are supposed to help keep a...
View ArticleToy Maker VTech Hires Cyber Forensic Team To Help Beef Up Security After Data...
After a data breach at popular kids’ toy maker VTech that put the personal information of nearly five million parents and children at risk, as well as reportedly exposing many of their photos and chat...
View ArticleIRS Relaunches “Get Transcript” Online Tool, Promises It’s More Secure
A year after the Internal Revenue Service said hackers used stolen Social Security numbers and other information gleaned from the agency’s system in an attempt to access hundreds of thousands of...
View ArticleDOJ: Russian Intelligence Officers Hired Hackers To Attack Yahoo’s Network
Back in September, Yahoo confirmed a massive data breach that affected at least 500 million users that dated back to 2014. At the time, the company said it suspected a “state-sponsored” actor did it....
View ArticleAIG Now Sells Cybersecurity Insurance That Covers Online Bullying, Extortion
Most big companies have some sort of insurance to cover their butts in a world where data breaches are an everyday occurrence, but now AIG is joining the ranks of insurers offering (wealthy) consumers...
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