IT Alerts

Over 620 million unique email addresses and passwords were put up for sale on the dark web this February. We are only 3 months in to the new year and there has already been 2.2 billion unique email address and password combinations posted to the web for cybercriminals to attack. On Tuesday 12th February, 617 [...]

Facebook announced on Friday that 50 million user accounts had been affected in a breach caused by a profile security flaw. Attackers have exploited a vulnerability to Facebooks ?View As? profile feature to gain control of 50 million user accounts. Facebook have said that the breach would allow hackers to log in to other accounts [...]

British Airways have announced that customers personal and financial details had been compromised in a huge data breach. The chief executive of British Airways has announced that over 380,000 transactions have been compromised in a ?sophisticated, malicious criminal attack? on its website. The transactions included information such as customers personal and financial information, the airline [...]

Apple, Google and Intel have released important updates to their smartphones after a major Bluetooth vulnerability was discovered. The Bluetooth vulnerability gives hackers the potential to read messages and steal media such as videos and pictures stored on the device. The importance of the update rollout is due to the data being sent via the [...]