by ATTACK Simulator | Jan 13, 2021 | Cybersecurity News
WhatsApp tried to clear the air about its updated privacy policy after reports of mandatory data sharing with Facebook drove users to Signal and Telegram in troves. Since most people are used to click the button “I agree” every time a license agreement appears, the...
by ATTACK Simulator | Jan 8, 2021 | Cybersecurity News
Most of us heard about a popular feature used by most social media websites, called “People Nearby”: it shows people’s exact location and also allows users to find each other and get in contact. Questions arose when the people’s addresses were...
by ATTACK Simulator | Jan 5, 2021 | Cybersecurity News
It was not exactly the y2k bug, but certainly not far from it. In the beginning, it seemed to be just another warning message that apps show every now and then. But this time, it was serious: Check Point VPN used an outdated certificate in some older versions of the...
by ATTACK Simulator | Dec 21, 2020 | Cybersecurity News
The European Union recognizes that the network’s security can be improved and wants to control it more closely. Security research company Positive Technologies reported that pre-existing vulnerabilities open the door for attacks on smartphone users. “The...
by ATTACK Simulator | Dec 17, 2020 | Cybersecurity News
Both the US agency and Microsoft play down the danger, claiming they have activated the attack’s kill switch. Microsoft and several US government agencies were caught in a massive hack after Russian spies managed to access SolarWinds’ monitoring software,...
by ATTACK Simulator | Dec 16, 2020 | Cybersecurity News
45 million images of various medical scans were freely accessible online by anyone, with absolutely no protection, security company claims. The security research company CybelAngel reported that besides leaving sensitive personal information unsecured, hospital...
