Comcast Xfinity, the cable company, exposed partial home addresses and Social Security numbers of millions of customers, reported BuzzFeed News. Citing Ryan Stevenson, a security researcher who found the security vulnerabilities, BuzzFeed reported that the data of more than 26.5 million customers was exposed. According...
The U.K. is introducing new laws to make social media safer. According to Reuters, British lawmakers want to tackle “the Wild West elements” on the internet — from cyberbullying to online child exploitation. A consultation has been launched that would look into measures that could...
Quantum computers may be a game changer when it comes to data security -- rendering traditional encryption methods useless. Dmitry Fedyanin, senior research fellow at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, tells PYMNTS that the high-speed quantum internet can keep data safe from even...
Internet providers in Turkey and Syria have reportedly been placing surveillance malware on unsuspecting web users, while internet providers in Egypt are applying the same technology to inject mining malware into browsers. Citing reports from The Citizen Lab, NewsBTC reported that internet service providers are...
April 17, 2018
Quantum computers may be a game changer when it comes to data security -- rendering traditional encryption methods useless. Dmitry Fedyanin, senior research fellow at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, tells PYMNTS that the high-speed quantum internet can keep data safe from even the fastest of foes armed with the most powerful of computers. Just give it about a decade.
June 30, 2017
Cybercrime isn’t always about stealing credit card data. In the digital world, there’s strength in numbers, and a botnet — essentially, an army of IP addresses — can turn a...
August 09, 2018
Comcast Xfinity, the cable company, exposed partial home addresses and Social Security numbers of millions of customers, reported BuzzFeed News. Citing Ryan Stevenson, a security researcher who found the security vulnerabilities, BuzzFeed reported that the data of more than 26.5 million customers was exposed. According to the report, two other security holes that weren’t reported […]
May 21, 2018
The U.K. is introducing new laws to make social media safer. According to Reuters, British lawmakers want to tackle “the Wild West elements” on the internet — from cyberbullying to...
March 12, 2018
Internet providers in Turkey and Syria have reportedly been placing surveillance malware on unsuspecting web users, while internet providers in Egypt are applying the same technology to inject mining malware...
March 28, 2017
Google is picking up its fight with Symantec, saying last week that it is reducing the level and length of trust Chrome will give Symantec-issued certificates. According to a report...
