According to sources, Facebook may face a whopping $5 million fine by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for data misuse pertaining to the Cambridge Analytica incident. In a Wednesday release, the social media behemoth said that it was earmarking $3 to $5 billion as a contingency outlay “in connection with” Continue Reading
According to FireEye security researchers, the source code of a backdoor affiliated with the productive FIN7 threat actor has arisen on VirusTotal together with builders and other tools from the group.
Tech giant Google has released Chrome 74 to the Stable desktop channel, which enables everyone to download it. This version resolves many security flaws and adds new features for decreased motion favorites and feature policy updates.
Marcus Hutchins, British cybersecurity researcher known for helping halt the WannaCry ransomware attack, pleaded guilty to accusations pertaining to the creation of a banking Trojan. Hutchins, known online as MalwareTech, was hailed as a “hero” after managing to halt the WannaCry ransomware attack in May 2017 by registering a domain Continue Reading
A security investigator recognized eight indiscreet databases that held about 60 million records of LinkedIn user information. GDI Foundation, where the security investigator is from, is a not-for-profit association with a task to protect the free and open Internet by trying to make it safer. The researcher, Sanyam Jain, contacted Continue Reading
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