Some LinkedIn data, including publicly viewable member profiles, has been extracted and posted for sale, Microsoft’s professional networking site said based on an investigation.
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More than 40% of victims of ransomware attacks in South Africa pay the cybercriminals responsible to try to secure or recover their data. But in many cases, the crooks simply disappear with the money.
Encrypted messaging app Signal appeared to no longer be working in China without the use of a virtual private network on Tuesday morning, users in the country said.
Ransom-seeking hackers have begun taking advantage of a recently disclosed flaw in Microsoft’s e-mail server software, a researcher said – a serious escalation that could portend widespread digital disruption.
The UK’s digital minister warned he had “very grave concerns” about Facebook’s plans to expand end-to-end encryption across all user communications.
It may be years before we get the Franz Ferdinand hack, but one cyberattack has the potential to set off a global war the likes of which we’ve never seen.
A China-linked cyberespionage group has been remotely plundering e-mail inboxes using freshly discovered flaws in Microsoft mail server software, the company and outside researchers said on Tuesday.
A week after popular audio chatroom app Clubhouse said it was taking steps to ensure user data couldn’t be stolen by malicious hackers or spies, at least one attacker has proven the platform’s live audio can be siphoned.
The constitutional court handed down a significant judgment on this week, declaring that certain provisions of the infamous Regulation of Interception of Communications Act are unconstitutional.
In this episode of the podcast, TechCentral speaks to Brenton Swanepoel, head of the technical team at Obscure Technologies South Africa, about why humans remain the weakest link in the information security chain and what can be done about it.