GoDaddy Multi Year Security Breach

The web hosting provider GoDaddy recently announced that they had suffered a security breach. This incident, which was reported by customers in early December last year, redirected sites hosted on GoDaddy to random domains. GoDaddy believed that the incident is linked...

Is Your Smart Speaker Eavesdropping?

Jake Moore from WeLiveSecurity wrote an article about him helping a friend who thought she might have been hacked by her Ex-partner. This is because the Ex knew specific information about her private conversations. Eventually it was discovered that the Ex was using...

Update Your Apple Devices

Apple has released emergency security updates earlier this week for it’s iPhone, iPads and Macs. The updates fixes a WebKit issue that could result in code execution. This is a vulnerability that is actively exploited in the wild. The fixed versions are 13.2.1...

Online Stores are Leaking private data

According to research by website security company, Sansec, around 12% of online stores have their backups exposed due to human error or negligence. In a study of 2,036 stores of various sizes, 250 of them were found to have stored their backups files on publicly...

Fake Job Ads to steal data from Applicants

Trend Micro recently discovered an active campaign that uses a fake employment  pretext to steal information from applicants. The ads are crafted to target Eastern Europeans working in the cryptocurrency industry. An executable disguised as a word document is...

Earthquake Relief Donation Scams Spotted

The significant earthquake in Turkey and Syria are being abused by scammers to steal relief donations. As government, businesses and charities are steeping up to raise funds and aids for victims, the scammers are wasting no time in targeting unsuspecting donors....