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Smartphone or Spyphone? East Coast Radio iStock Conspiracy theorists have long gone on about whether or not your phone is spying on you - but to the trusting phone user, it's come to light that they are actually spying on you. The truth of the matter is that they are listening to you and helping marketing firms target you. According to a recent article in Sowetan Live: "This is according to the global virtual private network service provider NordVPN, which found in a study it conducted that there was a 5% increase in the installation of monitoring apps in 2020." Read more: 

Apr 6, 2021 4:00 AM PT A rich cache of data on some 533 million Facebook users was posted to a hacker forum over the weekend and is available to download for practically free. The information is from a data breach that occurred in 2019, but hasn't been widely available until now. The data was posted to an English-speaking cybercriminal forum called RaidForums by a hacker going by the handle TomLiner. "The Facebook data was first listed for sale on RaidForums on June 6, 2020, but the initial sale allegedly asked users for US$30,000 in exchange for the data," explained Ivan Righi, a cyber threa...

'); //]]>//--> By John P. Mello Jr. Apr 6, 2021 4:00 AM PT A rich cache of data on some 533 million Facebook users was posted to a hacker forum over the weekend and is available to download for practically free. The information is from a data breach that occurred in 2019, but hasn't been widely available until now. The data was posted to an English-speaking cybercriminal forum called RaidForums by a hacker going by the handle TomLiner. "The Facebook data was first listed for sale on RaidForums on June 6, 2020, but the initial sale allegedly asked users for US$30,000 in exchange for the data,"...

The Cybersecurity 202: A massive Facebook breach underscores limits to current data breach notification laws Tonya Riley with Aaron Schaffer Lawmakers and privacy experts are slamming Facebook for its handling of a leak of more than 500 million users' personal information that was posted online for free. The stolen data, first spotted by cybercrime intelligence firm Hudson Rock, stems from a 2019 vulnerability the company fixed at the time, a Facebook spokesperson said. No data from after the vulnerability was fixed is included, the spokesperson added. But the company ...

Americans' online banking usage has reached 85 percent, with 25 percent using online banking exclusively. But trust is lagging behind.