While Apple was announcing its new services last Monday, it also pushed out a critical security update for its iPhones and iPads. If you haven’t updated those devices yet, perhaps you will after reading this article. Perhaps the most notable fix: Apple patched a flaw that could allow malicious applications to access the microphone on […]
Hundreds of millions of Facebook users had their account passwords stored in plain text and searchable by thousands of Facebook employees — in some cases going back to 2012, KrebsOnSecurity has learned,” Brian Krebs reports for KrebsOnSecurity. “Facebook says an ongoing investigation has so far found no indication that employees have abused access to this […]
By Nancy Werteen, WFMZ TV 69, Allentown, Pennsylvania Thirty-seven million Americans refuel every day, and 29 million of them use a card to pay for that fuel. Until all pumps are converted to only accept EMV chip readers, which is estimated to happen by the year 2020, thieves and crooks will attempt to use these […]
Immigration and Customs Enforcement allows thousands of employees to access a controversial license plate database with questionable legal safeguards in place to prevent abuse, the American Civil Liberties Union said today as it published thousands of pages of agency documents. The documents, which were obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit and include emails […]
