Tag: Security

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Facebook may be fined billions for data breach

It looks like Facebook is going to get a hefty fine for the data breach earlier this week. Possibly the social network would have to pay a fine of $1.63 billion for the leak that may have hacked fifty million accounts. Earlier this week Facebook reported that the accounts of up to fifty million peop... Read more

date6 years ago
American Secret Service: ATMs are being tapped more and more often

American Secret Service: ATMs are being tapped more and more often

The US Secret Service warns banks of a new series of incidents when it comes to ATMs. According to the secret service, more and more ATMs are being tapped. Malicious parties have to follow a number of steps, which can still be quite complicated. Krebs on Security received a copy of the letter that t... Read more

date6 years ago
Hackers capture data from 50 million Facebook users

Hackers capture data from 50 million Facebook users

Last weekend, Facebook announced that, in the event of a security problem, the data of almost fifty million users had been captured. It is not yet entirely clear how the hack exactly took place, but it has to do with a vulnerability in the way the View as function works. In a blog, Guy Rosen, vice p... Read more

date6 years ago
FBI warns of increased hacking attempts via RDP

FBI warns of increased hacking attempts via RDP

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) today warns of an increase in the number of hacks that occur via Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). Millions of endpoints would not only be directly accessible, they would also be very vulnerable to attacks. RDP was developed by Microsoft in the nineties a... Read more

date6 years ago
macOS Mojave available today, but with vulnerability

macOS Mojave available today, but with vulnerability

Today, Apple released the public release of macOS 10.14 Mojave. However, contrary to what we are used to from the company, there is a major safety flaw. As a result, people who update their system are now vulnerable to hacks. That puts security guard Patrick Wardle against Bleeping Computer. The vul... Read more

date6 years ago

National Police is fined by the Personal Data Authority

The National Police do not do enough to check who sees or uses certain data. For this reason, the Personal Data Authority has decided to impose a fine of 40,000 euros on the National Police. Previously, the police were ordered to take additional measures within six months to prevent unauthorised per... Read more

date6 years ago
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