Whoops! Facebook's 1st quarter 2019 earnings report reveals that the company is expecting a "record-setting" fine of up to $5 BILLION from the FTC over its mishandling of users' data and #privacy violations in Cambridge Analytica scandal.

https://thehackernews.com/2019/04/facebook-ftc-fine-privacy.html

'Highly Critical' Unpatched Zero-Day RCE Flaw Discovered in Oracle WebLogic Servers

Read More ⮞ https://thehackernews.com/2019/04/oracle-weblogic-hacking.html

[Important] An unpatched arbitrary file upload #vulnerability in a popular WordPress WooCommerce extension—WooCommerce Checkout Manager—has been disclosed publicly that could allow unauthenticated attackers to compromise more than 60,000 e-Commerce sites

https://thehackernews.com/2019/04/wordpress-woocommerce-security.html

New York AG, Canada and Ireland has launched 3 new separate investigations into Facebook’s latest privacy blunders

https://thehackernews.com/2019/04/facebook-privacy-investigation.html

The $5 billion fine seems to be just 1st installment of what Facebook has to pay for continuously ignoring users' privacy

#Docker Hub suffers a data breach,
Exposes sensitive information of 190,000 users,
Users should reset passwords,
GitHub tokens and access keys have been revoked,
Check your GitHub / BitBucket repos for unauthorised access,

https://thehackernews.com/2019/04/docker-hub-data-breach.html

Unsecured Database Exposes Personal Info of 80 Million American Households

https://thehackernews.com/2019/04/america-personal-data.html

Rapidly Growing Electrum DDoS Botnet Infects Over 152,000 Bitcoin Users, and Steals Nearly $4.6 Million in Cryptocurrencies

https://thehackernews.com/2019/04/electrum-bitcoin-wallet-botnet.html

Over Dozen Widely-Used Email Clients Found Vulnerable to Various OpenPGP and S/MIME Email Signature Spoofing Attacks

Read https://thehackernews.com/2019/04/email-signature-spoofing.html

Affected clients [for Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS, Android] include Thunderbird, Outlook, Apple Mail, Trojitá, Airmail

Hackers Found Exploiting Recently Patched Oracle WebLogic RCE Flaw to Infect Still-Vulnerable Servers with "Sodinokibi" and GandCrab Ransomware

https://thehackernews.com/2019/05/ransomware-oracle-weblogic.html

U.S. Department of Homeland Security has ordered all Federal Agencies to patch "critical" vulnerabilities within 15 days ...as the average time b/w discovery and exploitation of new vulnerabilities is continuously decreasing

Read more: https://thehackernews.com/2019/05/dhs-patch-vulnerabilities.html

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been sentenced by UK Court to nearly a year (50 weeks) in jail for skipping bail

https://thehackernews.com/2019/05/julian-assange-jailed.html

Google has introduced a new privacy-focused "auto-delete" option in your accounts that will allow you to automatically delete your "Location History, Web and App Activity" data after a set period of time.

Here's how to enable it ⮞ https://thehackernews.com/2019/05/google-web-location-history.html

—by @Swati_THN

Oh, Snap! A critical RCE vulnerability in pre-installed Dell Support software could allow hackers to compromise most Dell computers remotely

https://thehackernews.com/2019/05/dell-computer-hacking.html

Users should update to SupportAssist version 3.2.0.90 or later, or simply uninstall the application altogether.

Research reveals a Chinese hacking group [Buckeye] had been using some of the stolen the NSA hacking tools almost a year before the Shadow Brokers group leaked them on the Internet
https://thehackernews.com/2019/05/buckeye-nsa-hacking-tools.html

Israel Defense Force neutralizes an "attempted" cyberattack by blowing up a building in Gaza from where it claims the attack was originated by the jihadist hackers of Palestinian Hamas militant group.

https://thehackernews.com/2019/05/israel-hamas-hacker-airstrikes.html

Microsoft will soon include a custom-built full Linux kernel in Windows 10 to underpin its newest version of the Windows Subsystem for Linux version 2.0 (WSL 2)

https://thehackernews.com/2019/05/windows-10-linux-kernel.html

One of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges Binance has been hacked in a large scale security breach — hackers stole over $40 million worth of Bitcoin
.

https://thehackernews.com/2019/05/binance-cryptocurrency-hacked.html

Baltimore City Shuts Down Most of Its Government Servers After Ransomware Attack

https://thehackernews.com/2019/05/baltimore-ransomware-cyberattack.html

Google will soon change the way cross-site tracking Cookies work across the Internet by introducing improved privacy controls in the Chrome browser, allowing users to block/clear cross-site cookies without losing sign-in info and personalized settings

https://thehackernews.com/2019/05/chrome-samesite-cookies.html