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It was late November and former Intel Corp. engineer Thomas Prescher was enjoying beers and burgers with friends in Dresden, Germany, when the conversation turned, ominously, to semiconductors.
It was only last November that the UIDAI asserted that “Aadhaar data is fully safe and secure and there has been no data leak or breach at UIDAI.” Today, The Tribune “purchased” a service being offered by anonymous sellers over WhatsApp that provided unrestricted access to de
Cyber criminals are increasingly targeting schools across the United States and holding student data for ransom.
The data includes usernames, email addresses, and hashed passwords.
A 28-year-old Kansas man was shot and killed by police officers on the evening of Dec. 28 after someone fraudulently reported a hostage situation ongoing at his home. The false report was the latest in a dangerous hoax known as…
A huge database containing vast amounts of revealing data on Americans' everyday lives has been left exposed on Amazon Web Services.
Data breaches have been a headache for many years and for a long time there seemed to be a general apathy about them.
In 2017, bugs banned people from Twitter, secretly recorded them in their homes, and even caused a train crash. Is there anything they can’t do?
Toy bird induced to swear like a -- parrot.
That Bluetooth Cayla doll and i-Que surveillance robot can be taken over by any creep within 9 meters who wants to talk to your kid.
The app maker's database wasn't protected with a password, leaving exposed its users' most private information.
Yesterday I had a bunch of people point me at a tweet from a politician in the UK named Nadine Dorries. As it turns out, some folks were rather alarmed about her position on sharing what we would normally consider to be a secret. In this case, that secret is
While defending Damian Green, the Tory MP admitted she allows all levels of staff to log on to her computer
Alameda County Library officials said they’re still not sure how many people are affected by a hacking incident in September.
The ride-sharing company's decisions leading to a 2016 data breach and its handling of the incident should serve as a cautionary tale for enterprises facing a b
U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA), Ranking Member of the Senate Banking Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance and Investment, today pressed Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi on the company’s recent disclosure that hackers accessed the personal information of 57 million users last year.
Photo-sharing site Imgur just found out it was breached back in 2014 – and back then it wasn’t storing your passwords securely.