Security Is Now A Concern For Open Source Software
This year's Open Source Security and Risk Analysis Report analyzed the anonymized data of more than 1,200 commercial codebases from 2018. According to the report, managing open source risk continues to pose ...
Stolen Personal And Medical Information Was Found Online
Jeremiah Fowler, a researcher with Security Discovery recently found an unprotected Elasticsearch databased owned by a company called SkyMed on the internet. According to his findings the database was configured such that ...
Twitter Will Soon Release New Features With Update
Twitter recently announced the addition of a new "Hide Replies" feature, which will give the platform's users a bit more control over conversations that stem from the tweets they make. Twitter Senior ...
Report States Bots Account For 20 Percent Of Web Traffic
How much of the web's traffic would you estimate to be fake, if you had to guess? The answer to that question might surprise you. According to the 2019 Bad Bot Report ...
Popular Android Apps Banned For Sending User Data To China
A major Chinese developer is in hot water with Google from an extensive BuzzFeed investigation which revealed that the company's apps were abusing user permissions, allowing the company to commit fraud on ...
Recent Data Breach May Affect Hotmail And Outlook Users
Microsoft recently confirmed that the login credentials of one of its customer support agents was compromised. This allows unknown third parties to log in and gain access to data contained in an ...
Issue With Internet Explorer Could Affect Most PC Users
Are you still surfing the web with Internet Explorer? If so, you're not alone. Four years after Microsoft announced Edge as its successor, the company's old browser still has a few stubborn ...
Indoor Gardening Company AeroGrow May Have Had Data Breach
Do you do any indoor gardening? If so, odds are that you own AeroGrow equipment. If that's the case, some of your personal information, including the credit or debit card number you ...
Hackers Are Now Using Remote Desktop Services For Ransomware
Ransomware continues to be the weapon of choice for hackers around the world, but their distribution methods are evolving. Recently, a new strain of the ransomware known as CryptoMix was found in ...
Facebook Admits To Accessing Email Contacts
Facebook can't seem to stay out of its own way. Recently, the social media giant has made headlines on a regular basis, and seldom for anything good or groundbreaking. Not long ago, ...
