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Equifax receives a £500,000 fine for its 2017 data breach. Equifax is a widely popular consumer credit reporting agency that had a major data breach last year. Apparently, there were a lot of UK residents whose data was leaked by the company, so the UK regulator fined the company with £500,000. This is the maximum fine that’s allowed by the Data…

Hackers Crack Newegg. That’s what happened with NewEgg, the most popular electronics retailer since the collapse of Radio Shack. Credit card and payment information was unfortunately skimmed from the popular electronics website between August 14 and September 18, 2018 putting millions of customers at risk. If you’ve ever shopped at Newegg between…

HackWareNews (HWN) now has an official Discord Chat Server. Hey Everyone! For those who never heard of Discord ...where have you been ? This is a chat server to talk with HWN visitors and members in real time. There are multiple channels where you can discuss the latest sec news, security, Linux, hardware, malware analysis, and even (yep)…

Each social media platform is different, and getting your business up and running on all seven can be daunting. The Complete Social Media Marketing and Management Online Course gives you the tools to successfully use social media from a business perspective.

Short Script Can Make Your Apple Crash and Burn. A couple of months ago, this author needed to fix an issue through an online system with only an iPhone at hand; but the page wasn’t rendering correctly on Safari, so this author downloaded Edge, Chrome and Firefox. But surprisingly, the page still rendered the same wherein a header was blocking an…

Bristol Airport Targeted By Ransomware Attack. Over the weekend, a ransomware attack brought down Bristol Airport’s display screens, leading to confusion amongst its customers who could no longer see the live updates on flight data. The blackout across information screens lasted for two days, as security experts fought to bring the data back to the…

TREBLAB Z2 Wireless Noise-Cancelling Headphones pack next-gen technology into an affordable, wearable package, with a battery life that beats the competition.

New Cold Boot Attack Can Unlock Disk Encryption in Nearly All Laptops under 2 Minutes. Researchers at a Finnish cyber-security company, F-Secure, have announced that they discovered a new cold boot hardware technique can unlock disk encryption keys and have access to user data within 2 minutes. This can happen in nearly all computers even those…

Apple Removes Trend Micro Security Apps After Being Caught Collecting MacOS User Data. Apple has removed a couple of Trend Micro anti-malware apps from its Mac App Store, after they were caught collecting and siphoning off user data and browsing history without their consent. This news comes a few days after Apple removed another top security app –…

Apple Removed Popular Security App from Its App Store for Violating Privacy Rules. Apple has removed a top anti-malware app from its App Store because it violated its privacy rules. Apple removed the very popular security app called Adware Doctor from the Mac App Store on Thursday (23Aug2018) because it was secretly gathering users’ browsing…