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Browser Autofill Feature Can Leak All Your Data!
No one likes filling out browser forms, especially on mobile devices.
To help make this whole process faster, Google Chrome and other major browsers offer “Autofill” feature that automatically fills out web form based on data you have previously entered in similar fields.
However, it turns out that an attacker can use this autofill feature against you and trick you into spilling your private information to hackers or malicious third parties.Continue Reading…
You Can Crash Anyone’s IPhone or IPad With an Emoji Text
A newly discovered bug in Apple’s iOS mobile operating system is being exploited in a prank that lets anyone crash your iPhone or iPad by just sending an emoji-filled iMessage, according to several reports.
YouTube star EverythingApplePro published a video highlighting a sequence of characters that temporarily freeze and restart an iPhone, which people can send to their iPhone buddies to trouble them. You can watch the video demonstration below.Continue Reading…
Over 199,500 Websites Still Vulnerable to Heartbleed Bug
It’s more than two and half years since the discovery of the critical OpenSSL Heartbleed vulnerability, but the flaw is still alive as it appears that many organizations did not remediate properly to the serious security glitch.
It was one of the biggest flaws in the Internet’s history that affected the core security of as many as two-thirds of the world’s servers i.e. half a million servers at the time of its discovery in April 2014.Continue Reading…
Popeyes Restaurants Suffer Data Breach
CCC Restaurant Enterprises, LLC, the company that operates Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, announced a data security breach that could have affected credit and debit cards used at the restaurants. The payment processing system for the popular food chain was compromised last year between May 5 and August 18 at select locations.Continue Reading…
Possible data breach occurred at 21 Bowlmor AMF bowling centers
Bowlmor AMF, the world’s largest bowling center operator, said late Friday that it had a possible data breach at 21 of its more than 300 domestic locations in 12 states between Feb. 4 and March 19.Continue Reading…
Thousands of University of Alberta Affected In Breach
Malware put more than 3,000 University of Alberta faculty, staff and students at risk late last year, but because of a police probe resulting in charges against a student, the breach wasn’t shared campus-wide until Thursday. Continue Reading…
Sentara Healthcare Breach
The continued risk that vendors pose to companies, including health care entities cannot be overemphasized. This week, Sentara Healthcare (Sentara) announced that one of its third-party vendors was the victim of a “cybersecurity incident” that compromised the names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, procedure information, demographic information and medications of 5,454 patients who received vascular and thoracic procedures at its 12 hospitals in Virginia and North Carolina.Continue Reading…
Your Heartbeat as a Password – Smart or Stupid?
Scientists from the Binghamton University in New York have explored with using a person’s heartbeat as a password for encrypting and then decrypting personal data.
Researchers say that each person possesses a unique electrocardiograph (ECG), which just like fingerprints and iris, can be used for authentication.Continue Reading…
FDA: Certain Heart Devices May Be Vulnerable To Hacking
It may sound too much like a Black Mirror plotline to be true, but alas, it is. On Monday, the Food and Drug Administration warned that certain cardiac devices could be susceptible to online hacking.Continue Reading…