Zack Whittaker reports: Zoom’s troubled year just got worse. Now that a large portion of the world is working from home to ride out the coronavirus pandemic, Zoom’s popularity has rocketed, but also has led to an increased focus on the company’s security practices and privacy promises. Hot on the heels of two security researchers finding a...
Keumars Afifi-Sabet reports: Marriott has informed 5.2 million guests that their personal details were inappropriately accessed in a possible data breach. Contacts details, loyalty account information, company, gender, birthday, partnerships and affiliations and room preferences were among guests’ details accessed between mid-January and February 2020. Read more on ITPro.
For the past few years, this site has covered litigation against Athens Orthopedic Clinic in Georgia related to their hack by thedarkoverlord in 2016. The lawsuit against the clinic, filed by a patient, made it all the way to the Georgia Supreme Court on the issue of whether under Georgia state law, the plaintiff...
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Since at least early December 2019, a mysterious hacker group has been taking over DrayTek enterprise routers to eavesdrop on FTP and email traffic inside corporate networks, Chinese security firm Qihoo 360 said today. In a report published on the blog of its network security division Netlab, Qihoo said its researchers detected two...
Dark web hosting provider hacked again — 7,600 sites down