Erik Sherman reports: If you live in the United States, there’s almost a 50 percent chance your personal data was lost in the giant Equifax data breach a year ago of 143 million records. Google had its own data breach in October this year that exposed data on as many as 500,000 accounts. Or the…
Hackers find a way to access deleted photos on iPhones running iOS 12
Gadgets Now reports: At the Mobile Pwn2Own event, being held in Tokyo, Japan, a couple of hackers successfully made use of an iOS 12.1 bug to access photos from an iPhone that have been deleted. As reported by Forbes, the hackers named Richard Zhu and Amat Cama teamed up as to use the loophole and…
Firefox Monitor 2.0 gives you desktop notifications if a site suffers a data breach
Natasha Lomas reports: Mozilla is adding a new security feature to its Firefox Quantum web browser that will alert users when they visit a website that has recently reported a data breach. When a Firefox user lands on a website with a breach in its recent past they’ll see a pop up notification informing them…
One in five Magecart-infected stores get reinfected within days
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Online stores that have been infected with the Magecart malware –known to record and steal credit card details from checkout forms– often get reinfected after clean-up operations, a recent report has revealed. “In the last quarter, 1 out of 5 breached stores were infected (and cleaned) multiple times, some even up to…
UK: Medical worker in Kilmarnock suspended over data breach
BBC reports that the medical worker allegedly involved in a privacy breach reported last week at Crosshouse Hospital has now been suspended while the police and hospital continue to investigate the incident. Read more on BBC.
That Domain You Forgot to Renew? Yeah, it’s Now Stealing Credit Cards
Brian Krebs reports: If you own a domain name that gets decent traffic and you fail to pay its annual renewal fee, chances are this mistake will be costly for you and for others. Lately, neglected domains have been getting scooped up by crooks who use them to set up fake e-commerce sites that steal…