8 years ago046Yahoo’s announcement that state-sponsored hackers have stolen the details of at least 500 million accounts shocks both through scale—it’s the largest data breach ever—and the potential security implications for users.
That’s because Yahoo, unlike MySpace, LinkedIn and other online services that suffered large breaches in...
8 years ago043Hundreds of millions of hacked user names and passwords for email accounts and other websites are being traded in Russia's criminal underworld, a security expert told Reuters.
The discovery of 272.3 million stolen accounts included a majority of users of Mail.ru (MAILRq.L), Russia's most popular email service, and smaller fractions of...
8 years ago03960 Minutes showed how hackers only needed a congressman's phone number to record his calls and track his location. The congressman said people at intelligence agencies, who are aware of the SS7 flaw and abuse it, should be fired.
You might know that if a hacker has nothing more than your phone number, then he or she can listen into...