World Cyber News

Mayday! NASA Warns Employees of Personal Information Breach Another day, another data breach. This time it’s the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) NASA today confirmed a data breach that may have compromised personal information of some of its current and former employees after at least one of […]

Which are the worst passwords for 2018? Which are the worst passwords for 2018? SplashData report confirms that  123456 is the most used password for the 5th year in a row Bad habits are hard to die, 123456 is the most used password for the 5th year in a row followed by “password”. […]

Over 270,000 connected devices run vulnerable implementations of UPnP, threat actors are attempting to recruit them in a multi-purpose botnet. In April, Akamai reported that threat actors compromised 65,000 home routers by exploiting vulnerabilities in Universal Plug’N’Play (UPnP), experts tracked the botnet as UPnProxy.  Now the company provided an update to […]

A British MP claims Facebook was ware about Russian political interference in 2014, long before the events become public. The British MP Damian Collins, head of a parliamentary inquiry into disinformation, revealed that one of the emails seized from US software company Six4Three as part of a US lawsuit, demonstrates that a Facebook engineer had notified the […]

Security experts have found several vulnerabilities affecting Dell EMC Avamar and Integrated Data Protection Appliance products. They also warn that VMware’s vSphere Data Protection, which is based on Avamar, is also affected by the issues. Dell EMC released security updates for Dell EMC Avamar Client Manager in Dell EMC Avamar Server […]

The most disastrous web and mobile application security breaches and security incidents of 2018 (so far). Application security is one of the most crucial areas of data security, especially as more businesses move to cloud-based computing and make web applications a core focus of their functionality. Web applications are increasingly […]

Les réseaux sociaux étaient inaccessibles mardi en début d’après-midi partout dans le monde. La situation est revenue à la normale vers 17 heures. Non, ce n’était pas votre 4G ou votre box Internet qui subissaient les premières conséquences de l’hiver. Les réseaux sociaux Facebook et son petit frère Instagram ont […]