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One of India’s biggest diagnostic chains, Dr. Lal Pathlabs, exposed millions of patients’ data

With COVID-19 now infecting over 7 million Indians, the country has rapidly…
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Facebook wants Apple to give its users the option to choose Messenger as the default messaging app

Facebook is now joining a growing list of companies who are pushing…
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Twitter informs devs that their private keys and tokens could have potentially been stolen

Following a historic cyberattack that saw hackers salvage cryptocurrency from the platform…
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20 GB worth of Intel’s internal documents related leaked on the web

In what was another blow to the former most valuable chip making…
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Twitter sheds more light on cryptocurrency hack, says ‘phone spear phishing attack’ at the heart of the incident

The Twitter cryptocurrency hack raised questions about the platform’s identity as a…
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Major hack spreads cryptocurrency scam through high profile twitter accounts of Obama, Elon Musk, Bill Gates and more

Many high profile twitter accounts including that of former US President Barack…
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Facebook accidentally allowed 5,000 app developers access data of inactive users way past its expiration date

Facebook and privacy just don’t go together, as has been proven by…
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Government warns of possible mass phishing attacks using ‘Free COVID-19 testing’ as bait

COVID-19 has, by a long margin, been one of the biggest health…
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Google reports hacking attempts at Trump and Biden’s election campaigns by Chinese and Iranian hackers

American politics has always been like a Netflix drama (No, not ‘House…

Over 7 million personal and financial records of BHIM users, including UPI IDs, leak on the web

On 23rd April 2020 vpnMentor’s research team discovered a massive amount of…

Google warns limited users in India who were targeted by state sponsored cyberattacks

Google’s security experts have notified between 51-100 Indian users that their accounts…

Sensitive information of over 29 million Indian jobseekers leaks online

A regular sweep of the internet by cyber security firm Cyble uncovered…

In a massive data breach, over 8 billion Thai internet user records leaked

Over 8 billion Internet records of Thai users on country’s largest network…

Google beefs up privacy controls and safety on Chrome

In the times that we live and the web that we browse,…

New flaw in the Intel Thunderbolt port puts millions of laptops in risk of being hacked

Intel has had a rough time with its Thunderbolt port technology. The…

Tokopedia, Indonesia’s largest ecommerce platform, probes alleged data leak of 91 million users

Indonesian e-commerce unicorn Tokopedia allegedly uncovered an attempt to breach of its…

Major security lapse in Jio’s coronavirus symptoms checker app may have leaked user data of millions: Report

Reliance Jio, India’s largest telecom company by subscriber base, reportedly left data…

Apple says there is “no evidence” of hackers exploiting loopholes in its Mail app

Countering yesterday’s reports that suggested data leak and exploitation by hackers using…