Over 3.3million users have been compromised as a hugely popular online community for Hello Kitty has been breached. The data leak was spotted and reported by a security researcher Chris Vickery at the weekend. Parents warned as online Hello Kitty user accounts breached, including both first and last names, email addresses, genders, country of origins and other
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The BBC have released a statement apologising for their network of websites being unaccessible after an apparent cyber attack. In what was originally seen as a technical issue, the entire network of BBC websites, including iPlayer, the main news websites and even their apps, were all unaccessible for several hours in the early morning. It is now
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Yahoo are the latest company to be offering support to its users if at any point they feel they are under threat of state sponsored security breaches. Following on from Facebook announcing a similar move, it seems a possible trend might be starting that actually shows companies caring for their customer base after numerous cyber
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After a series of attacks left the whole country of Turkey reeling from cyber attacks, it has been revealed that Anonymous takes credit for cyber attacks on Turkey. The attacks happened earlier this month as it caused outages of hundreds of thousands of Turkish websites. DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks crippled numerous websites as the
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In a rare move from the Californian tech giants, Apple joins argument against proposed security law in the UK that could see the security of millions affected. The UK government plan to approve and move on a law that would greatly increase the investigative powers of governments as well as law enforcement agencies. The bill
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After toy manufacturer VTech suffered a data breach in which thousands of customer’s details were compromised, it has since been found that a 21 year old man arrested in connection with cyber attack. The hack, which targeted the customer data stored on the Learning Lodge app, which is an application for parents to download games, ebooks
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With online security in the news as often as it is these days, there has never been a better time to start protecting yourself online. Outside of virus protection, most people are not even aware they have to protect themselves in other ways. The easiest and most secure way of protecting yourself online is by signing
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Passwords have long been at the forefront of computer security, since the very beginning in fact, but as technology advances, then so should the security protecting it. It has long been touted as the successor with biometrics to replace passwords, but is it more secure? The problem with passwords is that it is simply just
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In the wake of yet another cyber attack on customer details, this time with UK pub chain Wetherspoons, it has been revealed that cyber security experts are charging an ever soaring rate for companies to protect themselves and their customer’s data. In the past year, there has been more high profile hacks and cyber attacks than
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In what is becoming a monthly occurrence with companies and businesses failing to protect their customers details, British pub chain JD Wetherspoons are the latest victims of hacking that saw more than 657,000 customer details stolen. The attack took place on Wetherspoon’s old website, where customer’s details were stored, and even 100 customer’s credit card
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