Samsung: a cyberattack puts users’ personal data at risk

Samsung claims a hacker managed to steal information in a cyberattack that occurred "at the end of July". This new hack of Samsung's database has potentially exposed valuable data about the company's customers. Samsung Electronics revealed last night that it suffered a data breach in which hackers accessed some of its customers' information. Samsung sent an email … Continue reading Samsung: a cyberattack puts users’ personal data at risk

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More than 1,800 Android and iOS apps pose data leak risks

The company Symantec, specializing in cybersecurity, is sounding the alarm regarding easy access to millions of private information in a large number of applications, mainly under iOS. © madartzgraphics/Pixabay The flaw would come in particular from the reuse of valid Amazon Web Services (AWS) tokens which would give access to a much wider range of … Continue reading More than 1,800 Android and iOS apps pose data leak risks

Google countered the most powerful cyberattack in history

A Google Cloud customer received the equivalent of Wikipedia's daily number of requests in about ten seconds. But there was no breakdown. Among the most common computer attacks, there are DDoS attacks or distributed denial of service attacks which consist in bombarding an online service with requests in order to make it out of service. But fortunately, … Continue reading Google countered the most powerful cyberattack in history