June 22, 2017
How Porch Pirates Subtly Steer E-commerce
While we tend to associate high-tech fraud with eCommerce thieves, as it turns out, it’s a big ecosystem with room enough for good old-fashioned, smash-and-grab types ready to snatch your...
June 16, 2017
Bloomberg Reports 39 US States Were Hit By Russian Cyberattacks...
In June of 2017, it’s kind of impossible to talk about hackers without talking about Russia. Russian cyberattacks hit systems in 39 U.S. states in the months leading up to...
May 26, 2017
Blockchain Tracker: How Blockchain Tech Is Evolving Financial Services
Some could argue that over the past few decades, financial services has completely transformed itself. From relying on physically walking into a bank to withdraw cash to snapping a photo...
May 19, 2017
Zomato Breach Threatens 17 Million Users
Zomato, the restaurant app, disclosed Thursday (May 18) that around 17 million users’ information has been stolen in a data breach. According to a report in CNN, the hackers took...
May 18, 2017
More Pain To Come To NSA And Its Hacking Tools?
The hits keep coming to the National Security Agency, which was created to spy on people and governments, but since August has become a target. According to a report in The...
May 15, 2017
Wannacry? Why It’s Time To Come Down On Bitcoin
The massive “Wannacry” wave of crypto-ransomware cyberattacks now reported to have hit more than 200,000 computers in 150 countries shouldn’t be just another “look at how smart and cunning and...
May 05, 2017
Blockchain Tracker: The State of Blockchain
The world of blockchain technology has certainly seen some major changes over the course of the past decade. Although there were early inklings of the technology dating back to 1991,...
April 28, 2017
Hacker Tracker: U.S. Most Willing To Pay On Ransomware
The U.S. was the number one target for ransomware last year. Its end users were also the most willing to pay. This according to the latest volume of the Internet...
April 07, 2017
Cybercriminals Are Buying Tax Info To Cash In On Fraudulent...
Tax season is a busy time for cybercriminals, with consumers’ personal data being sold online so thieves can file fraudulent tax returns and cash in on refunds. According to Bloomberg...