Safer Passwords: The Relationship Advice Your Security Stack Needs
February brings two of our favorite holidays: Valentine’s Day and Change your Password Day (Feb 1)! These are two reminders that trust—online or off—should be earned, protected, and revisited regularly. Just as relationships need work and upkeep, passwords require maintenance to keep hackers, scammers, and other bad actors from gaining unauthorized access. Weak, reused, or… Read More
State by State Takedown of Cybercrime
Individual U.S. states are still in the process of enacting their own data protection statutes. Kentucky is now the latest with the Kentucky Consumer Data Protection Act (KCDPA, not to be confused with KPDH, which would be KPop Demon Hunters), effective as of this month. As with other state rules, the KCDPA provides regulations for… Read More
New Year, New Personal Data Stolen
NetLib Security doesn’t have a SoundCloud account to promote if you see this article, but if we did, we probably wouldn’t be too thrilled right now. The platform recently confirmed a data breach in which millions of accounts (around 20% of users) were put at risk through unauthorized activity with an internal service dashboard. Passwords… Read More
The “Amazon of Korea” Hit by Mega Breach
If the phrase “data breach affecting most of a country’s population” has become somewhat tiresome in a world of Yahoo and National Public Data breaches, don’t hit the snooze button just yet. South Korea is presently going through a bit of a cybersecurity crisis, as nearly 34 million people have had their personal data exposed… Read More
Silent Night, Cyber Fight: Why Holiday Cybercrime Is Surging in the Age of Agentic Commerce
Everybody’s planning to shop online for the holidays this year (well, 89% of customers according to McAfee). I know I am. I also know that this presents greater than ever risks to people’s personal data security as they share sensitive details with any number of online vendors. This year, there’s the additional wrinkle of agentic… Read More
Unencrypted Data in Orbit
Space. It’s called the final frontier, where no one has gone before. Well, it seems like data encryption has yet to make that one small step for consumer kind, as a new study reveals. Research from the University of California and the University of Maryland have found that of 39 scanned satellites – which carry… Read More
Stealing Data While No One is Looking
A new poll reveals widespread, bipartisan agreement among American voters on at least one issue: data security/privacy. According to the survey, 96% of voters find it important not to keep Americans’ personal data in Chinese data centers, reflecting a paramount concern with information security in an era of global data. A majority of 83% also… Read More
Data Security in Flux
Bad actors looking to exploit technical vulnerabilities are everywhere: just see how the US Secret Service had to dismantle a network of over 100,000 SIM cards in New York City that would’ve been capable of all kinds of communications disruption. Meanwhile, the expiration date of 2015’s Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) is fast approaching, lapsing… Read More
Checkmate, Data Breach
Online chess is one of the classic, time-honored traditions of the digital age – and yet there haven’t been too many data breaches in that realm. One made news a couple of years ago, and now another. Chess.com, the leading online chess platform, admitted that the personal data of thousands of users had been exposed… Read More
Yet More Spilled Tea Data
Hardly any time has passed since the Tea dating app breach, and already the counter app launched in opposition to it – TeaOnHer, a mirror of Tea where male users can do essentially the same gossip as the original – has somehow fallen through the same glaringly obvious trap door. Poor security practices have now… Read More