Complying with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), video-sharing platform Dailymotion disclosed to France’s ‘Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés’ (CNIL) on Friday that it suffered a credential-stuffing attack. “The attack consists in ‘guessing’ the passwords…
Month: January 2019
Credit cards sold on 'dark web' for over a year after Saint John parking system hacked
The City of Saint John is beefing up its security systems in the wake of a breathtaking security breach that left the public’s credit card information wide open to hackers. In December,…
Consumers Terrified After Hackers Worm into Nests
Multiple consumers have reported being terrified after hackers infiltrated the Nest cameras in their homes, with one malicious actor making claims of a North Korean missile threat, according to CBS News. California resident Laura…
Japanese government plans to hack into citizens' IoT devices
The Japanese government approved a law amendment on Friday that will allow government workers to hack into people’s Internet of Things devices as part of an unprecedented survey of insecure IoT devices.…
The Danger of Calling Out Cyberattackers
The $100 million lawsuit that Mondelez, the maker of Oreos and Cadbury chocolate, has brought against Zurich Insurance Group shows that governments should be more careful about identifying the would-be…
'Criminals escaping justice' due to IT system
A police IT system is “unfit for purpose” and causing some criminals to escape justice, officers have told the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire programme. Nine forces in England and Wales use…