Dubbed Loapi, the new Android Trojan can perform so many more malicious activities at a time that can exploit a handset to the extent that within just two days of infection it can cause the phone’s battery to bulge out of its cover.
Author: Prilock Security
Data Breach at KMart- Again…
For the second time in less than three years, Kmart Stores is battling a malware-based security breach of its store credit card processing systems.
Last week Krebs began hearing from smaller banks and credit unions who said they strongly suspected another card breach at Kmart. Some of those institutions received alerts from the credit card companies about batches of stolen cards that all had one thing in common: They were all used at Kmart locations.Continue Reading…
OneLogin Password Manager Suffers Date Breach
OneLogin, an online service that lets users manage logins to sites and apps from a single platform, says it has suffered a security breach in which customer data was compromised, including the ability to decrypt encrypted data.Continue Reading…
15,000 Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery Patient Records Stolen
A massive privacy breach is reported today to have occurred at a plastic surgery clinic on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills.Continue Reading…
Hackers are Hiding Computer Viruses in Film Subtitles of Devices
Millions of people may be at risk from a new method of hacking that infects devices with hidden computer viruses in the subtitles of online videos, according to security researchers.Continue Reading…
Chipotle’s Data Breach Affects Customers Nationwide
Chipotle can’t seem to catch a break. Following a series of food-safety issues in 2015 and 2016, the company has been hit by another controversy: a security breach that’s affected its chains nationwide. Continue Reading…
Brooks Brothers Reports Payment Card Data Breach
A lawyer’s nightmare: retailer Brooks Brothers announced late last week that it has become the newest retailer to suffer a payment card data breach.Continue Reading…
Google Lens Turns Your Camera Into a Search Box
Google is remaking itself as an AI company, a virtual assistant company, a classroom-tools company, a VR company, and a gadget maker, but it’s still primarily a search company. And today at Google I/O, its annual gathering of developers, CEO Sundar Pichai announced a new product called Google Lens that amounts to an entirely new way of searching the internet: through your camera.Continue Reading…
Hipchat Resets User Passwords After Possible Breach
HipChat has reset all its users’ passwords after what it called a security incident that may have exposed their names, email addresses and hashed password information.Continue Reading…
Zomato Hit By Security Breach, 17 Million User Records Stolen
Food and restaurant search engine Zomato’s database has suffered a security breach, with the user records of up to 17 million people having been stolen.
According to Hackread, this database is up for sale on a Dark Web marketplace and includes email IDs and password hashes of millions of Zomato users. The security publication got in touch with a data vendor, who goes by the monker “nclay”, and managed to confirm that some of the IDs up for sale were ones that corresponded to genuine, registered Zomato users.Continue Reading…