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Security researchers have discovered a publicly exposed cloud database containing personal data and behavioral profiles on 120 million Americans. Security company UpGuard found the misconfigured Amazon S3 bucket on February 3 this year, eventually tracing it back to market analysis

Raccoon Malware is a recently discovered infostealer that can extract sensitive data from about 60 applications on a targeted system. Racoon malware, Legion, Mohazo, and Racealer, is an infostealer that recently appeared in the threat landscape that is advertised in hacking forums.

New research from HackerOne has revealed that hackers believe the technology industry is the least secure industry. The pen test and bug bounty platform collected data from over 3150 individuals who have successfully reported one or more valid security vulnerability

Slickwraps has disclosed a data breach that impacted over 850,000 user accounts, data were accidentally exposed due to security vulnerabilities. The data leak was disclosed last week, on February 21 the company that customer records were accidentally exposed online via an

Google has removed almost 600 Android apps from its Play Store for violating its policy on disruptive advertising. The tech giant has not only removed the titles from the Android marketplace but also banned them from Google AdMob and Ad

Network Penetration Testing determines vulnerabilities in the network posture by discovering Open ports, Troubleshooting live systems, services and grabbing system banners. The pen-testing helps administrator to close unused ports, additional services, Hide or Customize banners, Troubleshooting services and to calibrate

A US government agency that provides secure communications to the White House has notified individuals of a data breach that may have compromised their personal information. The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), which also provides IT support for the President,

FireEye’s report revealed that the incident response division Mandiant observed more than 500 new malware families in 2019. According to the FireEye Mandiant M-Trends 2020 report, FireEye analyzed 1.1 million malware samples per day in 2019 and identified 1,268 malware

A new malware campaign dubbed ObliqueRAT using malicious Microsoft Office documents to target government organizations in Southeast Asia. Researchers believe that the ObliqueRAT campaign linked with the CrimsonRAT campaign as they share the same similar maldocs and macros. In this

Speaking at the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) summit at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, Alex Stamos, adjunct professor at Stanford University’s Freeman-Spogli Institute, said that issues and decisions made by technology companies have angered people. Stamos, who previously served

The University of Washington School of Medicine is facing a class-action lawsuit over a data breach that impacted 974,000 patients. Plaintiffs claim UW Medicine failed to “properly secure and safeguard” patients’ personal health information (PHI), resulting in the exposure of

When you interview for the profile of a cybersecurity professional the interviewer will get into the technical bits to establish your level of expertise once they finish asking you about your professional experience, educational details, and more such obligatory questions.

The infamous Joker malware has found a way to bypass the security checks to be published in the official Play Store, new clicker was found by experts. The fight to the Joker malware (aka Bread) begun in September 2019 when

A new clicker malware found in Google play dubbed Haken aims to gain control over the affected devices and to generate illegitimate profit. Checkpoint researchers observed the new malware family while looking for another clicker malware BearClod. The Haken malware

Consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton has been awarded a new $113m contract to deliver modernized cyber-defense operations to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). With this new 10-year contract, the Virginia-based firm will become the SEC’s leading provider

A proposed class-action lawsuit has been filed against New Jersey’s largest hospital health network over a ransomware attack that happened in December. Threat actors infected the computer systems of Hackensack Meridian Health, causing a system-wide shutdown on December 2. The