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Toyota Discloses Data Breach Caused by Exposed Access Key on GitHub
Toyota Motor Corporation warned last week that customers' personal information may have been exposed after an access key was publicly available on GitHub for close to five years.
Toyota recently discovered that a portion of the...
Meta Warns 1M Facebook Users May Have Had Login Information Stolen
Facebook’s owner, Meta, revealed to reporters last weekend that it would notify one million Facebook users that their login information may have been stolen due to security issues with apps downloaded from Google and Apple’s softw...
Australian Police Arrest Suspect for Allegedly Extorting Optus Data Breach Victims
Following one of Australia’s largest data breaches, Australia Federal Police (AFP) said they arrested a young man on Thursday for allegedly attempting to use leaked Optus data to extort victims. Optus is a telecommunications compa...
Former Uber CSO Convicted for Covering Up Data Breach
Former Uber Chief Security Officer (CSO) Joseph Sullivan was convicted of obstructing proceedings of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) by covering up a massive data breach in 2016.
The Uber hack of 2016 remains noteworthy as i...
VPN Black Friday Deals 2021: ExpressVPN, ProtonVPN & More
The early Black Friday VPN deals for 2021 are officially available, as many of the top VPN providers on the market are offering their biggest discounts of the year. And there’s no need to spend hours browsing the internet trying t...
Schumer Urges FTC and DOJ to Increase Cybersecurity Protections
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer urged the FTC and DOJ on Sunday to increase their efforts to protect consumers from cybersecurity breaches and investigate whoever is responsible for these attacks.
“I am calling on the Fede...
US Senators Introduce Amended Cybersecurity Bill to Include Cryptocurrency
Two US senators introduced a bill which aims to assist cryptocurrency companies with reporting cybersecurity threats.
US senators Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) shared the legislation with reporters, known as...
IRS Warns US Citizens of Rise in Smishing Scams
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) warned US citizens on Wednesday of a significant rise in texting scams designed to steal personal and financial information.
The agency identified thousands of fraudulent domains used in SMS p...
Ukraine Warns of Russian Cyberattacks Against Critical Infrastructure
Ukraine’s Defense Ministry warned on Monday that Russia is planning to target critical infrastructure with massive cyberattacks, specifically the energy sector. These planned attacks are part of an effort to slow down Ukrainian co...
TunnelBear Is No Longer for Sale in India
Virtual private network (VPN) provider TunnelBear announced last week that it’s no longer selling the VPN in India following a law introduced earlier this year requiring VPN providers to log and store user data information for fiv...