Cybercriminals usually hacked your email account to access your personal data. We link everything from online banking to federal taxes with our emails, recovery from a hack is extremely time-sensitive. You’ll have to act fast and carefully if you want to minimize the damage to…

Recently, 7 Virtual Private Network (VPN) providers who claim not to keep any logs of their users’ online activities recently left 1.2 terabytes of private user data exposed to anyone who comes looking. The data, found on a server shared by the services, included the Personally…

Wordfence’s Threat Intelligence team discovered a vulnerability in WPBakery, a WordPress plugin installed on over 4.3 million sites. This flaw made it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level or above permissions to inject malicious JavaScript in posts. Wordfence’s Threat Intelligence has reached out to the plugin’s…

There is nothing 100% safe as long as you are on the internet. With hacks, scams, malware, the internet can feel like a dangerous place these days. However, implementing a small handful of security measures we can greatly reduce our exposure to all these threats. So, here…

University Hospital New Jersey in Newark, New Jersey, paid a $670,000 ransomware demand this month to prevent the publishing of 240 GB of stolen data, including patient info. Bleepingcomputer Reported. The attack on the hospital occurred in early September by a ransomware operation known as SunCrypt,…

The Swiss watch manufacturer Swatch has fallen victim to a cyber attack. The company shut down its IT systems after this attack was discovered, Bomcity reported. Swatch Group is a Swiss watchmaker known for its colorful watches commonly found in department stores and employs over…