How to verify a data breach
[ad_1] Over the years, TechCrunch has extensively covered data breaches. In fact, some of our most-read stories have come from reporting on huge data breaches, such as revealing shoddy security…
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‘World’s biggest casino’ app exposed customers’ personal data
[ad_1] The startup that develops the phone app for casino resort giant WinStar has secured an exposed database that was spilling customers’ private information to the open web. Oklahoma-based WinStar…
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Android’s new real-time app scanning aims to combat malicious sideloaded apps
[ad_1] Android’s in-built security engine Google Play Protect has a new feature that conducts a real-time analysis of an Android app’s code and blocks it from installing the app if…
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Indian state government fixes website bug that revealed Aadhaar numbers and fingerprints
[ad_1] A security researcher says a bug on an Indian state government website inadvertently revealed documents containing residents’ Aadhaar numbers, identity cards, and copies of their fingerprints. The bug was…
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A Brazilian phone spyware was hacked and victims’ devices ‘deleted’ from server
[ad_1] A Portuguese-language spyware called WebDetetive has been used to compromise more than 76,000 Android phones in recent years across South America, largely in Brazil. WebDetetive is also the latest…
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Hacker responsible for 2020 Twitter breach sentenced to prison
[ad_1] Three years after one of the most visible hacks in recent history played out in real-time in front of millions of Twitter users, one of the hackers responsible for…
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A popular Android app began secretly spying on its users months after it was listed on Google Play
[ad_1] A cybersecurity firm says a popular Android screen recording app that racked up tens of thousands of downloads on Google’s app store subsequently began spying on its users, including…
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