An autonomous researcher, Laxman Muthiyah, made a $30,000 bug bounty from Facebook after noticing a flaw in the mobile recovery procedure. Muthiyah took a look at Instagram’s mobile recovery weakness, which involves a user receiving a six-digit password to their mobile number for two-factor account verification (2FA). “Therefore, if we are able Continue Reading
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office has warned British Airways with a staggering £183.39m fine for its inability to protect personal and financial information of roughly 500,000 of its customers. The whopping fine under European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), embodies 1.5 per cent of BA’s worldwide revenue in 2017. Information Continue Reading
The U.S. Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) on Tuesday came up with an alert that it had marked attacks misusing a Microsoft Outlook fault tracked as CVE-2017-11774 in a bid to carry malware. USCYBERCOM says that the attackers delivered malware using the customermgmt.net domain. The U.S Cyber Command has shared numerous malware samples pertaining to Continue Reading
The other day, Riviera Beach City agreed to pay $600,000 in ransom; now after less than a week, another city in Florida chose to do the same to retrieve its data after a ransomware attack. The victim is Lake City, Florida, that during an emergency meeting of the city council held on Monday, Continue Reading
An Israeli-US security firm based in Boston, Cybereason has said that certain nation-state hackers managed to affect the systems of as many as ten cellular carriers worldwide to steal metadata of particular users. The company, without naming anyone, claims that the beleaguered users and the attackers both belong to China. The Continue Reading
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