On Tuesday, one of Microsoft’s former employees, Volodymyr Kvashuk, 25, was arrested for attempting to steal $10 million worth of digital currency from Microsoft. “If convicted of mail fraud, the former Microsoft software engineer could face as much as 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine”, The Register reports ... Read More

A few days ago, Firefox made announcements stating that starting from Firefox 70, which is planned to release in October this year, the browser will make two new changes favoring users and keeping them secure. First, it will notify users if their saved logins were part of any data breach ... Read More

On July 2, 2019, Cloudflare suffered a major outage due to a massive spike in CPU utilization in the network. Ten days after the outage, on July 12, Cloudflare’s CTO John Graham-Cumming, has released a report highlighting the details about how the Cloudflare service went down for 27 minutes. During ... Read More

Europe’s satellite navigation system, Galileo, is suffering a major outage since July 11, nearing 100 hours of downtime, due to a “technical incident related to its ground infrastructure”, according to the European GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) Agency or GSA. Funded by the EU, the Galileo program went live with ... Read More

The recent Windows 7 ‘security-only’ update also includes Telemetry components, which users may be unaware of. It may be used to secretly monitor individual PC’s for “innocuous data collection to outright spyware”, according to ZDNet. Per Microsoft, the “Security-only updates” should not include quality fixes or diagnostic tools, etc. other ... Read More

After the recent disclosure of the vulnerability in Mac’s Zoom Client, Apple was quick to patch the vulnerable component. On July 9, the same day when security researcher, Jonathan Leitschuh revealed the vulnerability publicly, Apple released a patch that removes the local web server entirely and also allows users to ... Read More

The UK’s watchdog, Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) announced that it plans to impose a fine of more than £99 million ($124 million) under GDPR, on the popular hotel chain, Marriott International over a massive data breach which occurred last year. On November 19, 2018, Marriott revealed that the data breach ... Read More

A vulnerability in Mac’s Zoom Client allows any malicious website to initiate users’ camera and forcibly join a Zoom call without their authority. This vulnerability was publicly disclosed by security researcher, Jonathan Leitschuh, today. The flaw exposes up to 750,000 companies around the world using the video conferencing app on ... Read More

A zero-day vulnerability in Apple’s iMessage, which bricks an iPhone and survives hard resets was recently brought to light. A specific type of malformed message is sent out to a victim device, forcing users to factory-reset it again. The issue was first posted by Google Project Zero researcher, Natalie Silvanovich ... Read More

Security researchers, Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, from vpnMentor recently revealed in their report, that a Shenzhen-based Chinese IoT management platform company, Orvibo exposed its user database online without any password protection. The Elasticsearch database, which contains user data collected from smart home devices, includes ‘2 billion logs’ containing everything ... Read More