Just a few days ago, hackers stole cryptocurrency from over 6,000 Coinbase customers. Confirmed via a breach notification letter sent by Coinbase. A copy of the letter was posted here on the Attorney General of California's website. The breach occurred between March and May 20th, 2021....
Over the past few years, data security has become an increasingly serious worry for today's consumers and business alike. The recent uptick of ecommerce shopping over the pandemic not only increased fraudulent activity but also increased consumer awareness to fraud. As consumers spend more time...
Ransomware is a type of malware from cryptovirology – the study of using cryptography to design malicious software, that threatens to lock out a victim's access to or publish their personal data unless a ransom is paid. Essentially, ransomware uses encryption to hold a user or...
Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) is an authentication method where a user is given access to an application or website after providing two or more verification factors. In addition to using a username and password to gain access to your apps, MFA requires the user successfully present...
Four zero-day vulnerabilities were discovered by Microsoft on its Exchange Server product early January and were exploited by the Chinese threat group named “Hafnium”. A zero-day vulnerability is a security flaw that is known to the vendor but does not have a patch or update to...
Dave, the personal finance app and challenger bank, announced a security breach this Saturday. Dave is a unicorn tech company leading as a US challenger bank that offers free overdraft cash, budgeting, credit building and more. Approximately 7.5 million Dave users had their information exposed on a...
The WHO was one of the first major organizations to warn about the increase of cyberattacks and online scams happening over the past few months. In late April WHO reported a fivefold increase in cyber attacks stating that some 450 active WHO email addresses and...
Technology has changed significantly over the years making everyone's lives easier. Daily life is now more convenient and in many ways more enjoyable. Never before has communication been so simple. Travel has also improved, making it easier to discover new places, and more difficult to get...
Yesterday, a week after Equifax reached a whopping $650 million dollar settlement from their 2017 breach, Capital One disclosed in a press release that it suffered a massive data breach exposing the personal information of about 100 million Americans and 6 million Canadians. Again, another huge...