Month: May 2021

An attacker can lock you out of the app using just your phone number and without requiring any action on your part If you use WhatsApp, you may want to be wary of an attack where cybercriminals could suspend your account using only your phone number. The underlying loophole abuses a lapse in security of…

Authorities step in to thwart attacks leveraging the recently-disclosed Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerabilities The United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has carried out a court-approved operation to “copy and remove” malicious web shells from hundreds of systems across the US that were compromised through the mass exploitation of zero-day flaws in Microsoft Exchange Server…

Other common and easily hackable password choices include the names of relatives and sports teams, a UK study reveals As many as 15% of Brits use their pets’ names as passwords to “protect” their online accounts, according to the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Center (NCSC). The agency cited figures from a survey that revealed…