Journalists and activists often use Slack to communicate. Nation states and criminals are interested
Slack doesn’t offer end-to-end encryption. User’s discretion is advised.
Dangerous Android apps have been sucking up your WiFi passwords
Tens of thousands of the exposed Wi-Fi passwords have been for US-based networks.
23M people with the password ‘123456’ have been hacked
One of the worst passwords you can use is 123456 – and 23 million people have been hacked for using it.
The French government’s “secure” new internal messaging app is far from secure
The app, called Tchap, is the French government’s attempt to provide a more secure communication channel for its employees
New LinkedIn data leak due to unsecured databases
LinkedIn say that it’s not their data leak – however, they are aware that it’s out there on the internet.
Hackers gained access to Microsoft’s email service for 3 months
It was revealed that hackers could see usernames, email addresses, subject lines, and folder names.
Cloudflare announces Warp: a free VPN that it claims will actually respect your privacy
Cloudflare claims that its Warp VPN will not write any user-identifiable log data to disk, will purge all debug logs within 24 hours, and will not require any personally identifiable information to start using the service.
Cyber attacks on smart home connected devices are up 217.5% year-on-year
Current estimates are that 75 billion connected IoT devices will be in use by 2025, in other words, they will continue to provide ever bigger and more appealing attack vectors to hackers.
A Google Photos bug exposed user locations on the web
Imperva security researcher Ron Masas’ proof-of-concept showed that the photos’ metadata could be discovered by taking advantage of the flaw.
Chinese data leak exposes 364 million social media profiles, names, IDs, numbers, photos, private conversations
It is well known that China monitors conversations and social media accounts of its citizens.