Equifax to Pay $700 Million in 2017 Data Breach Settlement
Equifax will dish out as much as $700 million on the heels of its infamous 2017 data breach that impacted 150 million customers.
Hacks
Adult Sites Lack Privacy, Open the Door for Harassment and Tracking
Third-party tracking is rampant on sites like Pornhub, with users’ sexual preferences on full view.
Bug in NVIDIA’s Tegra Chipset Opens Door to Malicious Code Execution
Researcher creates ‘Selfblow’ proof-of-concept attack for exploiting a vulnerability that exists in “every single Tegra device released so far”.
Directly linking thoughts to a phone via Bluetooth — what could go wrong?
More victims of a 2015 credential-harvesting incident have come to light.
Lenovo, Acer and five additional server manufacturers are hit with supply-chain bugs buried in motherboard firmware.
Lenovo patches enterprise and SMB network attached storage devices for a vulnerability that leaked data to the public internet.
An independent researcher earned a $30,000 bug bounty after discovering a weakness in the mobile recovery process.
Most respondents in a recent survey say they’re losing the battle despite having up-to-date protections in place.
Rupert Murdoch’s News Group has agreed to pay damages to Paul McCartney’s ex as part of the massive phone-hacking scandal by UK tabloids.
