Is your smartphone spying on you?
Some popular apps on your phone may be secretly taking screenshots of your activity and sending them to third parties, according to a new study by a team of Northeastern researchers.
Jul 6, 2018
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Mystery blurs dump of over 1 billion people's personal data
Two security sleuths last month discovered an enormous amount of data that was left exposed on a server. Data found on the server belonged to around 1.2 billion people.
Nov 25, 2019 weblog
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New software continuously scrambles code to foil cyber attacks
As long as humans are writing software, there will be coding mistakes for malicious hackers to exploit. A single bug can open the door to attackers deleting files, copying credit card numbers or carrying out political mischief.
Nov 16, 2016
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Air India says data on 4.5 million passengers stolen
Hackers have stolen data on about 4.5 million Air India passengers around the world in the latest breach reported by a major airline.
May 22, 2021
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Mathematical verification tests if software runs as advertised
When it comes to security, what you don't know can hurt you.
Sep 28, 2018
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Researchers investigate potential threat to speech privacy via smartphone motion sensors
Could smartphone motion sensors be used by cybercriminals to record speech? It is a question that many academic and industry researchers are working to answer in order to ward off this kind of malicious use before it happens.
Jun 15, 2018
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Ransomware, data breach, cyberattack: What do they have to do with your personal information?
The headlines are filled with news about ransomware attacks tying up organizations large and small, data breaches at major brand-name companies and cyberattacks by shadowy hackers associated with Russia, China and North Korea. ...
Jun 24, 2021
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Cathay Pacific fined by UK watchdog over massive data breach
Hong Kong carrier Cathay Pacific has been fined HK$5 million by Britain's privacy watchdog over a huge data leak of more than nine million customers including passport numbers and credit card details.
Mar 5, 2020
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Darknet markets generate millions in revenue selling stolen personal data, supply chain study finds
It is common to hear news reports about large data breaches, but what happens once your personal data is stolen? Our research shows that, like most legal commodities, stolen data products flow through a supply chain consisting ...
Dec 5, 2022
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One hack, 106 million people, Capital One ensnared by breach
A security breach at Capital One Financial, one of the nation's largest issuers of credit cards, compromised the personal information of about 106 million people, and in some cases the hacker obtained Social Security and ...
Jul 30, 2019
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Bank card number
The numbers found on credit cards and bank cards have a certain amount of internal structure, and share a common numbering scheme. Credit card numbers are a special case of ISO/IEC 7812 bank card numbers.
An ISO/IEC 7812 number contains a single-digit Major Industry Identifier (MII), a six-digit Issuer Identification Number (IIN), an account number, and a single digit check sum calculated using the Luhn algorithm. The MII is considered to be part of the IIN.
The term "Issuer Identification Number" (IIN) replaces the previously used "Bank Identification Number" (BIN). See ISO/IEC 7812 for more information.
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