Too busy working all week to keep up with the most interesting stories coming out of the technology and security industries? Below are our recommendations for a roundup of the top stories happening now that you need to know.
Fake WhatsApp app downloaded more than one million times
A fake version of the WhatsApp messenger app was downloaded more than a million times from the Google Play Store before it was removed. According to users, the fake contained ads and could download software to users' devices. Read more…
Senators Blast Equifax and Yahoo for Massive Data Breaches
Both Yahoo and Equifax took the stand this week to address the major customer data breaches that happened under their watch and what responsibility their companies had for the historic data breaches that saw billions of Americans' privacy compromised. Read more…
What's going on with Ethereum? $280m in cryptocurrency 'lost' amid security scare
Approximately $280m worth of the cryptocurrency Ethereum has been frozen in time – and potentially lost forever – after an unidentified developer accidentally triggered a critical bug in a shared code library used by digital wallets maintained by Parity Technologies. Read more...
2.7M Verticalscope credentials compromised
The Canadian web forum manager Verticalscope has again been hacked with 2.7 million user accounts being affected this time. The latest incident takes place about one year after the company reported that 45 million user credentials had been compromised. Read more…
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