- Which? Calls On Social Media To Tackle Fraud and Scams
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Thursday, April 30, 2020
Which? is calling on Facebook and Twitter to do more to tackle fraud and cyber crime after the consumer rights organisation found personal details for hacked identities available for sale ...
- Supreme Court Asks hiQ To Respond In Battle Over Data Scraping
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, April 27, 2020
The Supreme Court wants analytics company hiQ to respond to LinkedIn's request to intervene in a three-year-old battle over whether hiQ violates an anti-hacking law by scraping data about LinkedIn ...
- Italian Email Provider Hacked: Report
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, April 23, 2020
Data from users of Email.it is now being offered for bitcoin on the dark web. ...
- Google: Fast-Food Franchises Become Phishing Lures In COVID-19 Scams
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, April 22, 2020
Phishing lures using American fast-food franchises and COVID-19 messaging are being used to target personal accounts of U.S. government employees. Google's Threat Analysis Group released a report Wednesday detailing the ...
- Supreme Court To Hear Appeal Over Scope Of Anti-Hacking Law
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, April 20, 2020
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to take up a battle over a 1986 anti-hacking law at the center of several high-profile Silicon Valley disputes, including a fight between social ...
- 4 Questions Marketing Should Have Asked IT At Cathay Pacific (And Virgin Media)
London Blog, Sean Hargrave - Friday, March 6, 2020
The airline is a laughing stock over its lack of protection -- but Virgin Media didn't even bother with any security. ...
- Boots Suspends Use Of Its Advantage Loyalty Card
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Thursday, March 5, 2020
The BBC is reporting on a CRM nightmare for Boots, which has had to suspend use of its Advantage loyalty card after it emerged that hackers have been trying to ...
- Cathay Pacific Fined GBP500,000 For Data Security Breach
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Thursday, March 5, 2020
The BBC reports Cathay Pacific has been fined GBP500,000 by the ICO for not putting sufficient security in place to prevent the theft of personal information belonging to more than ...
- Rail Travellers Have Had Data Compromised After Using Wi-Fi
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Tuesday, March 3, 2020
Rail travellers who use free station Wifi have had their personal information compromised, the BBC reports. Data from more than 10,000 people has been found to be available on the ...
- Google Researchers Say Workarounds Fail To Fix Underlying Problems In Apple Safari ITP
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, January 24, 2020
Google Security Engineering researchers detailed several data leak issues in Apple's Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) technology, which aims to restrict cookies from sharing data and browsing habits in the Safari ...
- Google Latest Desktop Change Blurring Lines Between Organic And Advertisements
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, January 23, 2020
Google has begun to make ads look more like organic results, according to some critics, and they're not happy with the change. The new design rolled out earlier this month ...
- Dixons Carphone Fined Over Hack Attack
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Friday, January 10, 2020
The ICO has fined Dixons Carphone GBP500,000 after hackers compromised personal information to millions of its customers. "Sky News" reveals the company is set to appeal against some of the ...
- Special Olympics Email Hacked, Phishing Campaign Launched
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, January 3, 2020
The phishing email stated that $1,942.49 was about to be debited from the victim's account, a report states. ...
- Facebook Sues Alleged Distributor Of Ad-Serving Malware
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, December 5, 2019
Facebook on Thursday sued a Hong Kong company that allegedly duped web users into installing malware that not only took over people's Facebook accounts, but then served ads from those ...
- Major Vulnerability Found In Google, Samsung Phones: Lets Hackers Take Pictures, Record Voices
Digital News Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, November 20, 2019
The vulnerability, which lets hackers take pictures and listen in on conversations, has the potential to impact hundreds of millions of Android users. ...
- Disney+ May Not Have Been Hacked, But There's Still A Problem (And Not Just For Disney)
Video Insider, Karlene Lukovitz - Tuesday, November 19, 2019
The real problem may be mostly a password security issue that is partly users' fault, say experts, but streaming services will need to take their own steps and grapple with ...
- Hacking Group Takes Responsibility For Labour Party Attack
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Monday, November 18, 2019
The Independent claims to have been in contact with the group of hackers, known as Lizard Squad, who claim to have been behind the DDoS attack on the Labour Party ...
- LinkedIn Must Allow Scraping By HiQ, Court Confirms
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, November 11, 2019
Unless the Supreme Court intervenes, LinkedIn must allow hiQ -- and potentially other analytics companies -- to scrape information about users, including material that users posted but directed LinkedIn to ...
- Russian Hackers Hid The Tracks By Pretending To Be Iranian
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Monday, October 21, 2019
Russian hackers got into Iranian servers to make their attacks on organisations in 35 countries to hide the true origin of their crimes in 35 countries, "The Telegraph" reports. ...
- Apple Defends Sharing Browser Data With Google, Tencent
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, October 15, 2019
The feature being debated is built into Apple's Safari web browser for Macs, iPhones and iPads. It is designed to warn people when they visit sites that hackers create to ...
- Two Arrested Over Met Police Hack Attack
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Monday, October 14, 2019
Two Scottish teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of hacking into the Metropolitan Police force's website and posting bizarre messages, BBC reports. ...
- Yahoo Engineer Pleads Guilty To Scanning Email Accounts For Lewd Photos: Reports
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, October 1, 2019
The former Yahoo software engineer also accessed Gmail, Dropbox and other online accounts in an effort to find photos and videos. ...
- Apple Says Google Created 'False Impression' About iPhone Hacks
Digital News Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, September 10, 2019
After accusing Google of creating a false impression about its iOS operating system, Apple released a statement to set the record straight -- responding to a blog published in late ...
- Hackers Take All: Manufacturing Firm's Data Is Wide Open, Researchers Say
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Friday, September 6, 2019
Both professional and personal emails are unprotected, vpnMentor alleges in a report on the DKLOK leak. ...
- Google Finds Apple Two-Year-Old Massive Security Flaw
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, August 30, 2019
Google's Project Zero team has disclosed that a number of hacked websites have been used to attack iPhones for years. ...
- Fake App Installs Collectively Cost Companies Billions
Digital News Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, August 27, 2019
Digital ad fraud for mobile and in-app advertising will cost advertisers up to $42 billion this year, and a total loss from fraud will reach about $100 billion by 2023, ...
- Cloud Security Firm Imperva Hit By Hack; Email Addresses Exposed
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, August 28, 2019
The 2017 incident, discovered on Aug. 20, includes API keys and SSI certificates for a subset of the firm's WAF customers. ...
- The Nigerian Prince Lives: Feds Indict 80 In Massive International Email Fraud
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Friday, August 23, 2019
The alleged conspirators purchased a list of real estate agents in New York to distribute malicious software, the indictment states. ...
- Google Warns Users: Don't Reuse Any Previously Hacked Passwords
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, August 16, 2019
A Google study reveals that many people ignore security breach warnings and tend to reuse breached log-ins for some of their most sensitive financial, government, and email accounts. The risk ...
- Yahoo's $117 Million Data Breach Settlement Moves Forward
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, July 23, 2019
The settlement calls for Yahoo to create a fund for 200 million people whose data was stolen between 2012 and 2016, and who suffered monetary losses. ...
