8 Types of Authentication Used For User Identity Verification
User identity verification is a widely used tool across industries. As customers, many of us are familiar with these tools, as we often await one-time passwords or in-app...
Data-Stealing Disguised as a Helpful App
What happened? A QR Code Scanner app was being used to infect phones with a TeaBot banking trojan malware. A QR Code Scanner can be helpful, but after...
LinkedIn and the Breach Timeline
What happened? In 2012, LinkedIn suffered a data breach of users’ encrypted passwords. At the time, they understood this to be about 6.5 million passwords. They forced a...
Account Takeover & You – Social Media Edition
For most people, social media accounts are either the highlight or the lowlight of the internet. Regardless of how you feel about Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, etc, if...
Profile Pics and How Trends Can Bite You
What happened? A new app generating eye-catching illustrated profile pics spiked in popularity at the beginning of May. The app, NewProfilePic, uses the user’s photo to create an...