FTC settles with Amazon Ring over hacking, security incidents
Thousands of Ring customers have been victims of cyberattacks that the commission alleged were in part due to poor data security practices.
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Close-up of Ring doorbell, equipped with a camera and machine learning capabilities, installed outside a home in the Marina Del Rey neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, October 21, 2018. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images) Technology -
Department of Justice building. (Getty Images) Government DOJ, international law enforcement disrupt massive RSOCKS botnet
The search warrant targeted a Florida hosting company alleged to have facilitated the botnet activity.
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(JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images) Threats More than 1.1 million online credentials found in NY AG credential stuffing investigation
The 1.1 million accounts could be used to log in to 17 different major online businesses, which were notified.
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People walk by the Wall Street Bull near the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on August 10, 2021 in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Financial SEC fines brokerage firms over email hacks, customer data exposure
Collectively, the companies will pay $750,000.
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(Getty Images) Sponsored Cybersecurity report shows an increase in cyberthreats during pandemic
Surges in collaboration tool use and cloud demands open enterprise networks to new risks and threat actors are taking notice, a new McAfee report finds.
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(Getty Images) Financial When your apps are dormant, you become a more likely target for crooks
Account takeover attacks (ATOs) are easier and more likely if individuals haven’t used an app for awhile, according to research from DataVisor.
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(Getty) Financial Fraud via rogue apps exploded by 300 percent in just a few months
Phishing rates stayed mostly constant from one quarter to the next, according to a new RSA report.
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(James LeVeque)/remixed by Greg Otto) Technology Up to 40 percent of traffic on ticket sites is automated. Here’s why that’s bad for security.
Bad bots made up 39.9 percent of ticket-buying traffic between September and December 2018, according to Distil Networks.
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(Getty Images) Technology Nearly 773 million email addresses leaked, spelling trouble for people who re-use passwords
Some 140 million email addresses and 10 million passwords are new to Hunt’s Have I Been Pwned website, the free service that tracks whether user credentials have been made available in data dumps.
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Technology Dunkin’ Donuts struck in latest credential stuffing attack
The fast-casual restaurant chain says thieves obtained username and password information belonging to customers via a credential stuffing incident.