US insurance giant John Hancock is reportedly moving away from traditional life insurance in favor of “interactive life insurance” which takes into consideration data gathered from policyholders via their wearable devices such as Fitbit or Apple Watch. However, Senior Threat Researcher at MalwareBytes, Chris “PaperGhost” Boyd,...
Last Monday, Apple had reportedly rolled out with its latest iOS 12 update a ratings system that scores users based on the number of emails and calls a user makes. According to the company, the measure will help them identify fraud, but they won’t be...
Susan Molinari, VP of public policy and government affairs for the Americas at Google, told US senators in a letter this week that the company is still allowing developers to share Gmail data with third parties as long as they are transparent with users on...
Flashpoint’s Director of Research Vitali Kremez recently revealed that access to around 3000 websites are being sold in an underground Russian hacking forum named MagBO. The threat intel firm said that customers could buy different levels of access from PHP access to Database or Structured Query...
Cybersecurity firm FireEye reported yesterday that an unknown hacking group has broken into the servers of Click2Gov, a self-hosted payments solution, and stole credit card details. Click2Gov servers can be found installed in both metropolitan cities and small towns. The Superion product is sold to US...
Iranian hackers are reportedly selling millions of academic documents and research papers from top universities such as Oxford and Cambridge on WhatsApp and various websites. Cybersecurity firm Secureworks said that some of the papers covered topics such as nuclear development and encryption and were being sold...
UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office has fined credit rating company Equifax a total of £500,000 for its data breach which had affected the personal data of around 15 million Britons. While the systems that were compromised in 2017 were US-based, the ICO ruled that Equifax’s UK branch...
Cybersecurity companies RiskIQ and Volexity reported this week that the Magecart skimmer script had been found silently collecting customer payment information from tech retailer giant Newegg. The researchers said that the hackers had created a domain called neweggstats.com which was used as a drop site for...
Security researchers from Citizen Lab in Toronto recently reported that a spyware called Pegasus, which was developed by Israeli cybersecurity firm NSO, is being used to conduct illegal cross-border surveillance in some of the 45 countries it has been deployed in. The researchers say that the...
A new report entitled “Home Life Data and Children’s Privacy” has raised concerns on the collection of children’s data by smart home devices and called on the industry to ensure that age appropriate design code is included in such technologies. Author of the report, Dr. Veronica...