Update: This article on HotForSecurity was meant to raise awareness on the issues and challenges posed by SMS-based two-factor authentication and why users...
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Google plans to end support for third-party cooking in a bid to improve user privacy while still keeping publishers happy. It will take a couple of years to...
Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Server 2008 R2 have reached their end of life, as Microsoft has stopped delivering all updates for the aging...
The Albany International Airport in New York state succumbed to a Sodinokibi ransomware attack, and the authorities chose to pay a ransom to the criminals to...
Hackers using the Sodinokibi ransomware published stolen data to further extort their victims, marking a first for operations using this attack vector...
If the latest reports are to be believed, Iran-backed hackers are probing U.S. critical infrastructure by using password-spraying attacks, looking for weakness...
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning the cybersecurity community, companies and the public that it expects an increase in...
Google says it plans to be more proactive in its bug and vulnerability hunting and is now offering money before patch work is completed, as opposed to after...
Santa is coming to town, and he’s packing a white hat this Christmas as he brings good tidings, gifts and advice for people to stay cybersafe over the holidays...
Microsoft’s identity threat research team found more than 44 million compromised Microsoft user accounts in use in three months of scanning, between January...