Spiral Toys, the parent company behind CloudPets, yesterday sent the California Attorney General a breach notification that on many fronts contradicts what experts have said about a database breach that exposed user data and private voice messages, many of which were made by children.Continue Reading…
1,000 Redmond (Ore.) School District Workers Affected by W-2 Breach
The Redmond School District faces a massive data breach after an unknown individual impersonated the superintendent over email and obtained all employees’ names, Social Security numbers, mailing addresses and wage and tax withholding information. Continue Reading…
950,000 Coachella User Accounts Being Sold Online
An unidentified hacker calling himself Berkut is selling more than 950,000 user accounts for the Coachella music festival, including email addresses, user names and hashed passwords, calling the info a “complete database dump from this month,” Motherboard reports.Continue Reading…
Want to thwart hackers? Close other tabs if you have email open
There are a lot of small things you can do to keep hackers at bay. One involves the number of tabs you have open on your desktop. If you’re using email, make sure that all of your other tabs are closed. Otherwise, you risk having malware “jump” to your email system.Continue Reading…
My Friend Cayla Doll Banned in Germany Over Surveillance Concerns
The My Friend Cayla doll, which is also sold in Australia, uses Bluetooth, an internet connection and speech-to-text technology to interact with children.
Germany’s Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur), the country’s telecommunications watchdog, said the seemingly-innocuous toy was an example of “unauthorized wireless transmitting equipment”.Continue Reading…
Is Your TV Spying On You?
If you have a Samsung SmartTV the answer is, well, it very well could be. The news broke that Samsung has a TV that can listen in to your conversations, record them and then upload the information to servers under their control. Then your data could be farmed out to third party companies. I’m guessing that these third parties are advertising and marketing outfits but, that isn’t clearly articulated.Continue Reading…
Hackers Selling Undetectable Proton Malware for macOS in 40 BTC
Hackers are selling a malware for Mac devices on a prominent dark web marketing claiming that it is undetectable and comes with capabilities including taking full control of macOS devices by evading anti-virus detection.Continue Reading…
Phishing campaign uses Yahoo breach to hook email
It took about….what? a day?… for criminal phishers to take advantage of this week’s Yahoo breach news and create emails that they hope will fool Yahoo mail users into thinking their account “needs updating.”Continue Reading…
Haven’t Deleted Your Yahoo Account Yet? Update: Hackers FORGED Login Cookies.
Yahoo! is reminding folks that hackers broke into its systems, and learned how to forge its website’s session cookies. That allowed the miscreants to log into user accounts without ever typing a password.Continue Reading…
Text Messages Might Be the New Way Hackers Try to Steal Your Info
Back in 2014, Mexico became the first nation to pass a sugary-drinks tax, overcoming massive pushback from the soda industry. Big Soda resisted the tax for good reason—Mexico boasts the globe’s second-highest per capita soda consumption (trailing only Chile), and Coca-Cola and Pepsi together account for more than 60 percent of the market. Continue Reading…