YouTube, Spotify, Pandora and Apple Music are just a few of the popular music
streaming platforms used by hundreds of people worldwide, including kids.

Music plays an important role in our wellbeing, and exposing kids to song during
their development can improve social skills and literacy and helping strengthen
their memory, besides many other benefits.

While music-streaming apps are considered (generally) safe for young kids, there
are some potential risks they may be exposed to while browsin

Tightening access controls and security clearance alone won’t prevent insider threat risks motivated by lack of trust or loyalty.

The State of New York fined online retailer Sports Warehouse after a massive
data breach exposed information on more than a million US citizens.

Data breaches are common nowadays, often prompted by an unsecured database,
employee negligence or another mundane reason. But the Sports Warehouse incident
is noteworthy because the company had been collecting almost 20 years of credit
card data from consumers, which it kept in plain text and with a simple
password.

“Between approximately 2002 and 20

“file archiver in the browser” is a new phishing technique that can be exploited by phishers when victims visit a .ZIP domain. A new phishing technique called “file archiver in the browser” can be used by phishers to “emulate” a file archiver software in a web browser when a victim visits a .ZIP domain. The […]

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Following Google’s decision to offer a new wave of eight top-level domains
(TLDs), including .zip, a security researcher showed how attackers could use
this domain in a phishing scheme.

The TLDs Google made available are .dad, .phd, .prof, .esq, .foo, .zip, .mov,
and .nexus. From a cybersecurity perspective, the most interesting one is .zip
because it makes way for new attacks.

Security researcher mr.d0x showed how criminals could imitate the looks and
functionality of a file-archiving softwar