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10 December 2020, 2:24 am EST By As the United States is inching closer to getting a COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued a warning to US citizens concerning possible scams and frauds. FBI Warns of Possible COVID-19 Vaccine Scams According to a report by ABC News, Timothy Thibault, the Assistant Special Agent in Charge of FBI Washington Field Office, said that there could be initial chaos with the distribution of the vaccine after it has been appro...

10 December 2020, 4:28 am EST By Hackers have reportedly broken into certain databases, stolen their content, and held it for ransom for a period of 9 days. Hackers will then sell this database to the highest bidder if the said DB owner will not pay the asked ransom demand. Do hackers use SQL? According to an article by ZDNet, over 85,000 SQL databases were up for sale on the dark web for a reported price of just $550/database. The portal has been brought to ZDNets attention by a certain secu...

10 December 2020, 5:42 am EST By Frances official data protection agency called the CNIL, has recently slapped both Google and Amazon with certain fines for dropping unsolicited tracking cookies. Google has received a $120M fine while Amazon has received a $42M fine. Are tracking cookies dangerous? According to an article by TechCrunch, the regulators previously carried out the investigation of the said websites over the course of the past year and have been able to find tracking cookies that...