These 3 Android Apps Are Secretly Stealing Your Personal Data
In today’s digital world, privacy feels like a luxury we can’t always afford. While we often hear about major data breaches involving huge tech companies, there’s a more insidious threat lurking within the apps we download every day—spyware apps. These malicious applications, designed to monitor users without their knowledge, are becoming increasingly common. Worse yet, a recent security vulnerability has exposed the personal data of thousands of unsuspecting smartphone users, leaving many wondering how secure their personal information really is. {Read full article here}
Telecom Moves Into Highest Level of Cyber Risk – Moody’s
Reinsurers grapple with hybrid cyber threat complexity – CyberCube
The frequency and impact of unplanned technology outages are rising, driven by a surge in cloud service provider (CSP) disruptions and industry-wide single points of failure (SPoF) events, according to cyber risk analytics provider CyberCube. {Read full article here}
Huge data breach exposes over 600,000 records, including background checks, vehicle, and property records
A database belonging to SL Data Services containing hundreds of thousands of records has been discovered online to be publicly exposed and not password-protected or encrypted.
Over 640,000 records (713.1GB) PDF files were discovered by cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler, who revealed this included vehicle records, court records, and property ownership reports. The documents were primarily labelled ‘background checks’, and included full names, addresses, email addresses, employment details, social media accounts, phone numbers, and criminal records. {Read full article here}