In yet another data breach connected to children’s toys, Hong Kong children’s technology and toy company VTech has revealed that they suffered a data breach. The hack saw almost five million customer’s data hacked and exposed. The toy company exposes private data of parents and children, information including names, addresses, download history, secret questions and
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Mattel’s latest Barbie toy has security experts concerned with its new features. The Hello Barbie is the world’s first “interactive doll” as it can listen to a child and responding via voice, much like Apple’s Siri, Microsoft’s Cortana and Google’s Now. But experts warn that hackers can use Hello Barbie as surveillance tool. The toy uses
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The hacktivist group Anonymous, who have led attacks against several high profile organisations, have recently announced via Twitter their latest operation. Continuing on from their Charlie Hebdo response earlier in the year, Anonymous declare war on ISIS after attacks in Paris. The #OpISIS campaign, started after the Charlie Hebdo attacks, has now been stepped up
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Two Americans and two Israelis have been charged over what is believed to be one of the largest cyber attacks in the United States, affecting over 100 million customers. As the US charges four men over one of largest hacks in history. The four men were behind an elaborate scheme that was the largest theft of personal
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With so much news lately involving online fraud, identity theft, data breaches and hacking, there has never been a better time to improve your security online. With so much of our data floating around the internet, you can never really be sure on how safe it is, but there are numerous ways you can protect
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Is has been found that there are stolen credit card details for sale online for as little as £1 each. British newspaper The Guardian found batches of credit card details, including names, addresses, card details and other information that could be used for identity fraud. This comes after the huge data breach of British telecoms company Talk
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Google have announced that their specialist team of security experts have found that the latest offering from Samsung is far from secure as the Samsung Galaxy S6 affected by numerous bugs. As what is standard practice for Google and their Project Zero security team when they test new hardware for errors. When they began testing the
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In a continuation of the hacking group Anonymous, the ‘hacktivists’ have announced that they plan in releasing more than 1000 identities of the white supremacist group, the Ku Klux Klan. In an ongoing operation against the group, Anonymous announced the decision through their Twitter account, which will mark the one year anniversary since the attack
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As yet another high profile cyber attack takes place, almost on a monthly basis now, IT experts around the world are pushing for stronger regulations as a means to tackle the ever growing problem of cyber crime. The Talk Talk data breach, the company’s third hack in the past 12 months already, is just another case
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After the first attack back in December of last year when over 2.4million customers were accessed by a third party, compromising customer’s accounts, which included both internet and phone contract customers. It was later found out that a contractor, who had legitimate access to customer data, was behind the data breach. Another attack took place in
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