It usually starts with a small, uneasy moment. A login alert you don’t remember triggering. A password that suddenly doesn’t work. A friend asking why you just posted something… bizarre. Sometimes it’s even worse: you open your Facebook Page and realize you’re no longer an admin. Facebook account takeovers often don’t look dramatic at first. They start quietly: a new device login, a recovery email...Read More
The first time Perth man Casey Grogan, who runs a media and videography business from home, knew that he had a major issue with internet security was when a client contacted him about a strange email he’d received. “I had a client who was in America at the time just hit me up on WhatsApp...Read More
A recent hack of Columbia University’s computer system compromised the personal information of hundreds of thousands of people, including students and applicants, new documents show. Over all, about 870,000 individuals were affected by the breach. The university provided draft notices to officials in Maine and California that it intends to send to affected parties in...Read More
ITV’s brilliant new drama The Hack is set to revisit the controversial phone-hacking scandal, which resulted in a popular newspaper being shuttered and many key players facing jail-time. David Tennant will play Nick Davies, the journalist who tirelessly worked to uncover the scandal, in which several journalists from the News of the World tabloid paper...Read More
Workday, a company that provides human resources technology to over 11,000 corporations and 70 million users worldwide, announced in a classic Friday news dump that it suffered a data breach. The company did not disclose how much information was stolen by the hackers, but did reveal that information—including the names, email addresses, and phone numbers—of...Read More
A scam is currently circulating on WhatsApp that could be very dangerous for you. Users are receiving seemingly harmless messages—usually from unknown numbers without unique names—and those messages contain nothing more than a photo along with a question along the lines of “Is that you?” or “Do you know this person?” It’s a clear attempt...Read More
Three private Chinese companies helped China carry out one of the boldest hacking operations to date, including snooping on text messages from Kamala Harris’ and Donald Trump’s campaigns, according to a coalition of U.S. agencies and 12 allied governments. The operation, known as Salt Typhoon, hacked into telecommunication companies around the world, including AT&T and...Read More
It seems like there’s a new data breach every week. Whether it’s an insurance company with millions of customers or a major credit bureau with data on everyone, your personal devices don’t even have to be breached for your data to get lost. But then, every time you overshare on social media or use the...Read More
Hackers gained access to sensitive information on millions of Americans in a data breach targeting TransUnion, one of the nation’s big three credit bureaus. TransUnion confirmed an unauthorized “cyber incident” happened on July 28, affecting over 4.4 million people, according to legal disclosures filed this week with the offices of attorneys general in Maine and...Read More
Executive Summary On October 31, 2025, the University of Pennsylvania experienced a coordinated campaign in which offensive emails with the subject “We got hacked (Action Required)” were sent to students, alumni, and faculty from various university email addresses, including those associated with the Graduate School of Education. The emails claimed that university data had been...Read More
