An inspired writer and content manager who has been with SensorsTechForum for 4 years. Enjoys ‘Mr. Robot’ and fears ‘1984’. Focused on user privacy and malware development, she strongly believes in a world where cybersecurity plays a central role. If common sense makes no sense, she will be there to take notes. Those notes may later turn into articles! Follow Milena @Milenyim
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An inspired writer and content manager who has been with SensorsTechForum for 4 years. Enjoys ‘Mr. Robot’ and fears ‘1984’. Focused on user privacy and malware development, she strongly believes in a world where cybersecurity plays a central role. If common sense makes no sense, she will be there to take notes. Those notes may later turn into articles! Follow Milena @Milenyim
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To our greatest concern, the services we use daily often become part of data breaches and data leaks, in which our personal details are exposed to cybercriminals. Banks, airlines, hotels, various organizations put our information at risk in databases that…
Luscious.net, an adult website, has suffered a data breach which has led to the leak of over a million users’ personal information. Leaky, Unprotected Database Exposed Millions of Luscious.net Users vpnMentor researchers were the first to report about an exposed…
Popular threesome and gay dating apps have been breached by unknown hackers. According to the security releases this includes 3fun, Grindr, Recon and Romeo among others, but what’s particularly worrying is that the data of UK Politicians has been leaked…
Probably the world’s largest coin exchanges has begun an investigation after an anonymous user leaked portions of the personal user information on Telegram. Binance have stated that the user leaking the information asked for a ransom to be paid in…
Another large-scale data incident has been reported, this time affecting Instagram users. More specifically, information belonging to millions Instagram influencers, celebrities and brand accounts has been exposed online. The database was hosted by Amazon Web Services, TechCrunch reported, and it…
Personal and passport information belonging to more than 2.25 million citizens of Russia has been leaked through government websites. Information of government employees and politicians is also exposed, according to findings by Ivan Begtin, co-founder of a Russian NGO known…
This article has been created to teach you how you can successfully test the security of your current VPN service and to see if you are as private as promised. Since most VPNs promise compete privacy protection, some may also…
It’s early 2019, and we’ve already witnessed not one but two record-breaking data dumps. The first one, known as Collection #1, consisted of approximately 773 million unique email IDs and 21 million unique passwords, and was reported by Troy Hunt…
Data that belongs to more than 66 million users has been found on a website which was completely accessible to everyone. The records seemed to appear as if they were scraped from profiles in LinkedIn. The data may also include…
The Wife Lovers adult site has been hacked and as a result of this incident the data of of 1.2 million users has been leaked. The reason for this is an outdated hashing technique and an overall weak security implementation.…
A team of security researchers has uncovered that mobile sites can be abused to leak sensitive sensors data. The report called “The Web’s Sixth Sense” reveals the privacy implications and how exactly this can be used by malicious users. Mobile…
A database belonging to Veeam, a data management company, has been leaked online containing sensitive customer records. A deeper look into its contents reveals that many of its customers are Fortune 500 companies which signals a very serious security risk.…
Part of the source code of Snapchat was leaked and made public on GitHub. Apparently, an iOS update in May exposed a small amount of the app’s source code. However, Snapchat was able to identify the mistake and rectify it…
Ransomware is not the only online extortion that a victim can be put through. The FBI’s Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has just released a public alert concerning an increase in post-breach extortion attempts. The attacks are aimed at US citizens…
By using passwords that are short and easy to remember, users risk their accounts being compromised and their identities stolen. Nonetheless, security experts never cease to astonish us when they release researches concerning the quality of average passwords. Respectively, SplashData,…
