Ask any tech enthusiast why they prefer Apple’s ecosystem, and they will answer “security” as one of the key factors. Is Apple’s security fortress really unbreachable? No. There are plenty of hacking incidents to prove it. Zero-day vulnerabilities pop …
The number of people that have hacking skills has exploded recently but it’s still possible to protect yourself against almost all attacks, according to Microsoft’s latest Digital Defense Report.
Microsoft has among the most complete collections of cyb…
Microsoft resurrected a controversial topic in the PC gaming community recently: Windows 11’s security features. Days after Windows 11 launched, there was an outcry among PC gamers due to a security feature that is enabled by default in Windows 11. In …
Despite ongoing efforts by security researchers and internet titans to push us to use stronger passwords and two-factor authentication to secure online accounts, people are lazy and continue to make serious mistakes that jeopardize their privacy and se…
Mozilla is releasing its latest version of the Firefox browser as of Tuesday with a focus on privacy, accessibility, and customization, according to the brand.
The new release will include a number of features, but one notable highlight is the introduc…
In the ongoing barrage of cyberattacks, Facebook users are being targeted by a new version of the Ducktail malware that originally surfaced in July. The first implementation was specifically aimed at Facebook Business accounts, but it has recently beco…
A large U.S. hospital chain has been suffering from a serious security breach that has led to its computer records being taken offline. What seems to be a ransomware attack could be affecting the quality of health care provided, possibly even putting l…
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new zero-day vulnerability that has surfaced in Microsoft’s Exchange email servers and has already been exploited by bad actors.
The yet-to-be-named vulnerability has been detailed by cybersecurity vendor GTS…
Today, Lastpass confirmed a data breach in a blog post describing the incident to its customers that rely on the company’s products for online security. The company emphasized that customer data was not stolen in the breach, however, and that users do …
Hackers are pushing the distribution of dangerous malware via WordPress websites through bogus Cloudflare distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection pages, a new report has found.
As reported by PCMag and Bleeping Computer, websites based on the W…
Approximately 332,000 websites were exposed to bad actors as a result of a vulnerability in the open-source development tool Git, according to cybersecurity researchers from Defense.com.
As reported by TechRadar, among those websites, 2,500 are associa…
If you have Zoom installed on your MacBook, you’ll want to update the app right now. Zoom spent the weekend patching a major security flaw in its Mac app, and the update is available right now.
According to The Verge, it all began at Def Con, a compute…
A record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack situated within Europe was attempted during July, a new report has confirmed, but the lack of details on the target leaves the motive undetermined.
The largest DDoS attack ever detected in E…
A new report has highlighted how ransomware payments to hackers have begun to slow down, with victims continuously opting to not cave in to demands.
Coveware, a company that provides ransomware decryption services, revealed some interesting analytics r…
According to a recent report from IBM Security, data breach costs are constantly on the rise. Unfortunately, this spells bad news not just for the companies involved, but also for the customers — in more ways than one.
The report, which states that an …