There’s some bad news for Meta, in the form of a $277 million fine related to a data breach which impacted no fewer than 500 million users. The fine, issued by the Irish Data Protection Commission, is a result of the fallout from scraped data posted to a hacking forum in 2019. As The Guardian notes, this brings the current…
Syniverse, a major telecommunications company, said hackers had been in its system for years. The data breach exposed billions of text messages and millions of cell phone users’ data. Syniverse itself said that almost all mobile carriers rely on its network. Telecommunications giant Syniverse disclosed to the Securities and Exchange Commission last week that hackers had infiltrated its systems,…
If you’re one of Facebook Messenger’s 1.3 billion users, then you have just been given a serious reason to quit. While recent headlines suggest the platform is adding new security protections, there’s a nasty twist which makes this more risky than it seems, raising new questions about Facebook and its secretive backend systems. While Apple’s controversial CSAM update and surprise backtrack…
There’s some bad news for Meta, in the form of a…
Search giant Google on Friday released an out-of-band security update to…
LastPass maintains that passwords remain safely encrypted. Password manager LastPass announced Wednesday…
