Celebrities do it. Your annoying jet-setting friends did it just last week. It’s the gravy of all the annoying #soblessed nomads you know on the internet.
But just because posting a photo of your first-class airline ticket is the best humble brag ever, doesn’t mean you should commit this privacy faux pas and wreck your next vacation, possibly becoming a victim of identity theft in the future as well.Continue Reading…
A newly developed program allowing veterans to seek care from private doctors, Choice, is reportedly being hacked.
U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs officials said the program phone line is being mimicked.Continue Reading…
Popular Mexican food chain Chipotle is warning customers about a data breach.
The company says it recently found unauthorized activity on a network used for payment processing in its restaurants. Chipotle immediately launched an investigation, and believe it has stopped the unauthorized activity. Additional security measures have also been put in place.Continue Reading…
Script kiddies and online criminals around the world have reportedly started exploiting NSA hacking tools leaked last weekend to compromise hundreds of thousands of vulnerable Windows computers exposed on the Internet. Last week, the mysterious hacking group known as Shadow Brokers leaked a set of Windows hacking tools targeting Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 7 and 8, and Windows 2012, allegedly belonged to the NSA’s Equation Group.Continue Reading…
MasterCard has unveiled its brand new payment card that has a built-in biometric fingerprint scanner, allowing customers to authorize payments with their fingerprint, without requiring a PIN code or a signature.
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Ransomware has been around for a few years, but it has become an albatross around everyone’s neck, targeting businesses, hospitals, financial institutions and individuals worldwide and extorting millions of dollars.Continue Reading…
Researcher’s detected an uptick in USPS-themed malspam walloping users with a 1-2-3 knock-out of nasty malware designed to infiltrate your system and steal all your most valuable information. This malware-laced email is actively being distributed with various Subject and Body messages containing references to missing and/or late USPS parcels.Continue Reading…
Amazon launched its Fire Kids Edition tablet with the intention of giving peace of mind to parents who hand their children a tablet and walk away. Amazon’s moderators approve everything kids can access on the device, including more than 8,000 books and 40,000 white-listed webpages. Today, the company is giving parents better insight into what their kids are doing on their tablets with the free Parent Dashboard. The dashboard lives at parents.amazon.com and can be accessed from any web browser.Continue Reading…
The credit card payment system at the popular Waterworks Car Wash off South Broadway in Denver was compromised in February and the business says thousands of patrons’ data could be at risk.Continue Reading…
Remittance transactions in the UAE continue to be vulnerable to hackers and financial institutions must work closely with intelligence units in order to mitigate the risk of customers losing millions of dirhams to cybercriminals, a currency firm said.Continue Reading…