Feb 24, 2019 | 2019, Breaches, January
Who: Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) No. of Accounts Breached: A total of 1,164,540 records What was affected: Records, belonging to students who enrolled for various courses at Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) between 2000 and 2018 When it happened: January 29, 2019...
Feb 24, 2019 | 2019, Breaches, January
Who: Japanese IoT devices What was affected: 200 million IoT devices When it happened: January 2019 How it happened: The survey will be carried out by employees of the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) under the supervision of the...
Jan 26, 2019 | Hacking, Radio Show
Popular WordPress Plugin Hacked By Angry Former Employee A very popular WordPress plugin was hacked over the weekend after a hacker defaced its website and sent a mass message to all its customers revealing the existence of supposed unpatched security holes. In a...
Jan 26, 2019 | Hacking, Radio Show, Security
How A Hacked Phone May Have Led Killers To Khashoggi Jamal Khashoggi probably thought the messages he was sending to fellow Saudi dissident Omar Abdulaziz were hidden, cloaked in WhatsApp security. In reality they were compromised — along with the rest of Abdulaziz’s...
Nov 24, 2018 | Government, Malware, Radio Show, Security, Security
Porn-watching Employee Infected Government Networks with Russian Malware, IG says An Interior Department watchdog recommended the U.S. Geological Survey ratchet up internet security protocols after discovering its networks had been infected with malware from...
