Information of around 30000 patients where exposed at Memorial hospital at Gulfport, Mississippi.The attack happened when an employee at the hospital responded to a phishing mail.

Researchers found that they could gain access to the popular Android app ‘OkCupid’ when they dug deeply into it. They could easily find out details like email aliases, DOBs , genders , names and locations. In the same way one could easily access information like dating preferences such as whether they are looking for long term or short term relations and if they would want to find new friends etc.

It has been found out that one could take control of a Xiaomi M365 electric scooter from a distance of around 100 meters from it without the knowledge of its actual user. Researchers at Zimperium on Tuesday released a proof-of-concept (PoC) for the attack. The attack allowed them to launch a denial-of-service attack, install malicious firmware which can take full control over the scooter.Thus either accelerate or suddenly halt the scooter without the consent or knowledge of the rider

Lenovo smartwatch which was launched in June 2018 attracted the attention of many with its features, design and affordability. Within a span of just a few months it had to hear a lot of accusations for its usability and mainly for its security.

Are you using an 8 character NTLM password? Its high time you changed it. HashCat, an open source password recovery tool can now crack your password within less than 2.5 hours, that is definitely less than the time taken to watch a movie!

The Times of Malta has reported that Bank of Valletta has suspended all of its Banking operations including branch operations, ATM’s mobile banking and even email services detecting a hacking attempt to nick €13m. Its website was also taken offline along with the suspension of all of banking functions.

Security researchers have found that Intel’s Software Guard Extensions (SGX) have not met their expectations. It has been said that they can be used to hide pieces of malware that masquerade as normal operations.

Around 620 million online account details were stolen from 16 hacked websites and now it has been kept on sale on the dark web. The sale seems to be less than $20000 in Bitcoin and the stolen account details can be purchased from Dream market cyber souk located in the Tor network. The list of the 16 hacked websites obtained is as below :

Parents gabfest platform Mumsnet has reported that there was a data security breach when it migrated its services to Cloud platform. Mumsnet founder and CEO, Justine Roberts has apologized to its users as the data breach has affected their user accounts.

Trakt is a company whose app monitors TV program/movie viewing habits of its customers. The company had declared that it fell victim to a PHP exploit around four year ago. This exploitation has lead to the leakage of its crucial data.