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ALERT: Remove These secret ‘Audio Recording’ Apps Now
Hi Guys, These two malicious Android apps with 1.5 million users between them have been removed from the Play Store after Google were informed they were serving up adware: Sun Pro Beauty CameraFunny Sweet Beauty Selfie Camera In addition to serving up adware both apps...
ALERT: Medical Records For 24.3 Million Exposed Online
Hi Guys, Greenbone Networks has released details of new research into the security of the servers used by health providers across the world to store images of X-rays as well as CT, MRI and other medical scans. Of the 2,300 medical image archive systems...
ALERT: 15,000,000 Accounts Breached at PDF management Service Lumin PDF
Hi Guys, Have you ever used a service called Lumin PDF? "In April 2019, the PDF management service Lumin PDF suffered a data breach. The breach wasn't publicly disclosed until September when 15.5M records of user data appeared for download on a popular hacking forum....
ALERT: Google warns people about popular password manager Lastpass
Hi Guys I am sorry for the second alert in one day but this is an urgent one: If you are using the password manager Lastpass you need to update it urgently. In a tweet from Security researchers at Google's Project Zero team, the analysts describe how, by...
URGENT: WhatsApp ‘Delete for Everyone’ Doesn’t Delete Media Files Sent to iPhone Users
Hi Guys, If you are a user of WhatsApp I am sure you have heard of a feature called 'Delete for Everyone' that lets you delete messages, photos, and videos from an individual’s phone, or from everyone in a group. The only problem is that doesn't delete them from an...
ALERT: New AI Powered ‘Voice Phishing’ Scams
Hi Guys, In the first known case of successful financial scamming via audio deep fakes, cybercrooks were able to create a near-perfect impersonation of a chief executive’s voice – and then used the audio to fool his company into transferring $243,000 to their...