The Under Armour subsidiary MyFitnessPal has officially confirmed the theft of account data for over 150 million users. The MyFitnessPal Hack In February 2018, unknown actors accessed the protected data of MyFitnessPal (MFP), a fitness […]
On February 28th, 2018, GitHub reported that it experienced the largest DDoS attack on record, with a maximum volume of 1.35Tbps. The GitHub Attack Process Many applications use a memory caching system called “memcached“. Administrators […]
Researchers at Stanford recently published a paper exploring the harvesting of demographic information from an unlikely source: Google Street View. By using a method of deep learning called “Convolutional Neural Networks”, the researchers successfully determined […]
Over the past few weeks, T-Mobile users have reported receiving strange texts warning them of “phone number port out scans”. What’s Happening at T-Mobile? T-Mobile has confirmed that they have been sending out texts warning […]
Kaspersky Labs revealed today that a previously-unknown attack on the popular messaging app Telegram infects users’ devices with cryptocurrency mining malware. Research indicates that Russian cybercriminals have used this exploit since March 2017 to mine […]
Sometimes, we at SCS like to make our posts short and sweet. With chaiOS, we have a great time to do so. The researcher has already removed his exploit on Github. Apple’s actively working on […]
Last Wednesday, researchers from Google’s Project Zero and various universities released two potentially earth-shattering vulnerabilities with Intel processors. The attacks, named Meltdown and Spectre, allow for a given process to steal information from memory. Meltdown […]
A just-released pair of new surveys confirm that people still love their weak passwords. SplashData reveals the worst passwords of 2017, while EPC Group shares interesting password trends by gender, location, and other factors. The […]
Alteryx, a data mining and analytics firm, just disclosed it accidentally exposed the personal details of over 120 million American households. This data included the Experian ComsumerView dataset and a full dump of the 2010 […]