Microsoft executive Tom Burt told Congressional lawmakers Wednesday that Federal law enforcement agencies send “routine” secret orders for customer information from…
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Jail for consultant who scraped colossal trove of Alibaba customer data
A billion data points, including the usernames and mobile phone numbers of customers have been siphoned off Alibaba websites by a…
WhatsApp reverses course, will not limit app functionality
WhatsApp, the end-to-end encrypted messaging service that has lost users, its founders, and a large amount of public goodwill, issued a…
“Have I been pwnd?”– What is it and what to do when you *are* pwned
Adobe. Yahoo!. The US Department of Energy (DoE). The New York Times. What these names have in common is that they…
A week in security (May 10 – 16)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we watched and reported on the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack as developments of its story unfolded….
WhatsApp calls and messages will break unless you share data with Facebook
WhatsApp told users last week that there was no need for alarm regarding an upcoming privacy policy deadline, as users who…
Facebook bans Signal ads that reveal the depth of what it knows about you
Most of our readers are well aware of the fact that the big tech corporations, especially those that run social media…
A week in security (April 19 – 25)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we interviewed Youssef Sammouda, a 21-year-old bug bounty hunter who is focused on finding vulnerabilities on…
Interview with a bug bounty hunter: Youssef Sammouda
Behind the scenes there are many people working in cyber-security that make the internet a safer place. Youssef Sammouda is one…
Has Facebook leaked your phone number?
Unless you keep your social media at a pole’s distance, you have probably heard that an absolutely enormous dataset—containing over 500…