Reports of Newark Cancer patients being under data breach since June 2018 Patients under the care of Newark based Medical Oncology Hematology Consultants (MOHC) are now being notified of the data breach that occurred a year ago. As per the officials, the cancer provider became a victim to the cyber-attack that occurred by targeting a practice email account on June 7 or 8 2018. The notification received […]
Hackers Infiltrate Stack Overflow Q&A site- no evident data breach One of the notorious question and answer site for programmers publically disclosed that an unknown hacker managed to infiltrate the sites production system on May 11, 2019. A flagship site of the Stack Exchange Network, founded by Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky in 2008- Stack Overflow has about 10 million registered users along with 50 […]
Tremendous, Irreparable Damage Caused by the Most Significant Breaches Within the Past Three Years According to a Bitglass report, publicly traded companies who were a victim of the worst data breaches caused a 7.5 percent decrease in the stock price. The most extensive data breaches occurred over the last three years on pub.icly traded companies was researched by Bitglass to uncover cybersecurity trends and the amount of damage weak […]
Identity Theft an Open Gateway for the Acceptance of More Security-improving Friction The amount of individual ending up as victims of identity theft is increasing at an alarming rate. However, the financial crimes are unable to grasp the impact of the theft upon the victims. According to the president and the CEO of Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC)- Eva Velasquez, “There are many victim services organizations that […]
Monero- Privacy Coin Promising Complete Anonymity Bitcoin is being forced to share the cryptocurrency market as developers are coming up with an array of alternative digital currencies. These coins are quick to gain popularity as the developers are laboring over to design digital cash that can be prominent in conventional commerce and finance. One of the most prominent of these “altcoins” […]
Cryptocurrency Hacks Still on The Rise – What will Happen to the Industry? Cryptocurrencies, which were once a close associate to hacker and underground network, have gone quite popular since the past two years. In 2017 they valued sky-rocketed to an impressive $20,000 but however declined the next year. But apart from the ups and downs faced in the market, the world’s most notorious cryptocurrencies are in much […]
Heedless of warnings,people don’t change passwords A recent survey carried out by Bilendi on behalf of GMX- the European email service provides alarming findings related to password usage. The study which was conducted with a total of 1,050 participants concluded that about 64% of people use the same passwords for most or all of their online accounts. Apart from that, there […]
Beware! Investigation Confirms Google Location Tracking of Millions Even When It’s Disabled Have you turned off your location and Google is not tracking you? Then you might be wrong. Google is so keen to know your geographical presence that it records your motion even when you give it a specific instruction of NO.
New Chrome Extension, HackNotice Could Save You From Hacking Attack Chrome has launched an extension, HackNotice that can pre-alert you if, the website you have open in your chrome browser is hacked recently or not. This free service is created by Steve Thomas, the co-founder of PwnedList (which is now disgraced).
SnapChat’s Source Code Exposed on GitHub Snapchat confirmed the news of source code leak after an iOS update. Some of the Snapchat’s source code was exposed on the code repository platform, GitHub. This information was obtained probably when the company messed up and update to the iOS previous this year in May.
