Cybersecurity
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Cybersecurity as a practice of using processes and technologies that protect any data, computer systems, networks, programs, and devices from any kinds of cyberattacks or unauthorised access. There are several forms of cybersecurity such as network, application, and operational security etc. Cybersecurity also refers to ensuring the availability and integrity of information. The most challenging thing for cybersecurity is the evolution of security risks.
The Data of More Than 49 Million Instagram Users Revealed in the Public Domain
The cybersecurity scientist caught a vast database of Instagram users at an open-access server on Amazon cloud service. The collection belongs to an Indian company.
The Location Data of Family Locator Users Was Publicly Available
The popular app Family Locator have a bug which made the location of more than 238,000 users available in the public domain.
The details of users’ location, their names, addresses, emails, profile images, and passwords were stored on the unencrypted server.
Hackers Shared the Record-Breaking Volume Base of Stolen Passwords in the Web
The start of 2019, wasn’t tranquil for the cybersecurity department and brought
disturbing news. The security researcher Troy Hunt wrote that someone exhibited
a large file of addresses and passwords, compromised by dint of various
happenings.
Thus, Collection #1 was the compilation of different addresses and passwords
batch, created
