US Treasury's FinCEN says scammers tried to steal an average of $301M per month via business email compromise scams in 2018, up from $110M per month in 2016

  Techmeme   ·   2 days ago

Firefox to Warn When Saved Logins are Found in Data Breaches

  Reddit   ·   3 days ago

La Porte County Pays $130,000 Ransom To Ryuk Ransomware

  Reddit   ·   6 days ago

Firefox Adding a New Social Tracking Protection Feature

  Reddit   ·   1 week ago

Researcher finds unsecured ElasticSearch server owned by a Chinese public security department that leaked databases with 90M+ records of people and businesses

  Techmeme   ·   2 weeks ago

Microsoft OneDrive Has 60% Jump in Hosting of Malicious Files

  Hacker News   ·   4 weeks ago

Cloudflare and Amazon AWS Outages Affecting Sites Everywhere

  Reddit   ·   4 weeks ago

Evernote has fixed a security flaw in its Web Clipper Chrome extension that could have allowed hackers access to users' sensitive info from third-party sites

  Techmeme   ·   1 month ago

VLC 3.0.7 is Biggest Security Release Due to EU Bounty Program

  Reddit   ·   1 month ago

Tor Browser 8.5.1 Released With WebGL Fingerprinting Fix

  Reddit   ·   1 month ago

Misconfigured, public ElasticSearch cluster owned by Chinese headhunting firm FMC Consulting exposed private data including 20M+ resumes and 5M+ company records

  Techmeme   ·   2 months ago

U.S. Navy Creating a 350 Billion Record Social Media Archive

  Reddit   ·   2 months ago

User finds that Google was hiding three Google Pay privacy settings, like sharing creditworthiness, from its default view; Google says it was a bug it is fixing

  Techmeme   ·   2 months ago

Google Hides Payment Privacy Settings Behind Special URL

  Reddit   ·   2 months ago

Fxmsp Chat Logs Reveal Hacked Antivirus Vendors

  Hacker News   ·   2 months ago

Researcher finds unprotected Elasticsearch cluster exposing ~3.5M records of Panama citizens, including full names, dates of birth, and national ID numbers

  Techmeme   ·   2 months ago

Over 275 Million Records Exposed by Unsecured MongoDB Database

  Reddit   ·   2 months ago

Firefox 66.0.4 Almost Ready With Fix for Disabled Addons

  Reddit   ·   3 months ago