Cybersecurity

The repeat offender is back at it again! Are you one of 1.5 million people whose data Facebook leaked? Despite Facebook’s claims that users have absolute control over their data, the company has toyed with its users’ data throughout its existence. The idea that users’ data is safe with the social network, becomes redundant by the day. For those aware of Facebook’s past, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the social network has gotten itself embroiled in yet another damning data/privacy scandal – one that could result in heavy regulatory penalties. What Happened? Facebook has admitted to illegally storing email

If you thought your data was safe then think again. Because according to academic studies, it was found that due to TLS 1.3 vulnerability, hackers can now tap into a secured channel and can harvest data for malicious intent. The research paper was published by Tel Aviv University, University of Adelaide and University of Michigan as well as Weizmann Institute. Moreover, NCC Group and Data61 have also concluded similar findings. The Findings The attack is modified version of the actual Bleichenbacher oracle attack which in the past was able to decode an RSA encrypted message using Public-Key Cryptography. This new

How Big Is This Breach? Data breaches have become a thing as of late. A data dump by the name of Collection #2 to #5 has landed on the internet. The size of the data is 845 GB which contains close to 25 billion entries of usernames and passwords. The number is huge and this level of breach is colossal, to say the least. If you remove the duplicates, as done by The Hasso Plattner Institute, it is still considerably high i.e. 750 million data worth of passwords and usernames. Insights Into The Breach According to security expert Chris Rouland,

A phishing attack is currently making rounds. It happens to be an email claiming to be from American Express. The claim it makes is that there is an issue with your credit card’s security. And you know what happens after that? No, Tell Me, What Happens Next? As with any clickbait, you feel compelled to click on the HTML link in the email. From that point onward whatever information you have entered into the resulting form will be sent back to the team of scammers counting on it. This Is Not News The variants of such an email were already

Within hours of the data breach at Marriott Hotel, two men from Oregon decided to sue the hospitality giant for letting their private data get compromised. Later, another lawsuit was filed by a resident of the Maryland state. The status of both lawsuits is class-action. The latter lawsuit did not specify the damages they are seeking from Marriott. Still, the former lawsuit is suing Marriott for $12.5 billion in data loss. The Breach It was on a Friday, December the 3rd when it was reported that a massive data breach had taken place at the Marriott. In the breach, some