vpnMentor's research team has discovered a data breach related to Aliznet, a French consulting company in the retail sector. The company provides consulting services to large companies around the world. Past clients of Aliznet include IBM, Salesforce, Sephora, Louboutin, Inwi, and Yves

Led by Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, vpnMentor’s research team discovered a data breach in adult site Luscious. Luscious is a niche pornographic image site focused primarily on animated, user-uploaded content. Based on the research carried out by our team, the site has over 1 million registered

Led by internet privacy researchers Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, vpnMentor’s team recently discovered a huge data breach in security platform BioStar 2.   BioStar 2 is a web-based biometric security smart lock platform. A centralized application, it allows admins to control access to secure areas

Led by established researchers Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, vpnMentor’s research team recently found breaches in the databases of Credit Fair and Chqbook, two Indian personal credit and loan related services. Credit Fair offers customers access to small personal loans. On Chqbook, customers can

vpnMentor's research team found a data breach from YouHodler, a cryptocurrency lending platform. Led by Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, our research team discovered a database leak in YouHodler's system. The platform makes it easy for users to request crypto-loans or to convert their crypto-holdings

vpnMentor's research team found a leak in the Fieldwork software database. Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, the heads of our cybersecurity research team, found a leaking database belonging to Fieldwork. Fieldwork offers small business software to manage their operations efficiently. We found a large

Led by Noam Rotem, vpnMentor's research team discovered a data breach related to a website from the government of Makati Philippines called Proud Makatizen. Proud Makatizen is an official website from the city of Makati, Philippines. It began as an online portal for providing Covid-19 relief

CyberGhost claims to take your privacy seriously and has earned a reputation as a trustworthy and privacy-conscious VPN provider. These traits make it a . It’s time to put CyberGhost to the test. The latest CyberGhost transparency report is packed with privacy and performance data. But what

What made you write this book? We've been covering the Russian secret services since 1999 and we've always been interested in how governments try to control the free flow of information. Since Russian internet surveillance and censorship are so widespread now, we felt it is important to overview

The massive WannaCry malware attack in May 2017 grabbed headlines the world over and brought a new phrase into common public use – Ransomware. In cybersecurity and tech circles, however, ransomware has long been talked about for all too long already. In fact, over the past decade, ransomware has

I have to say that even though I have read a lot and have spoken to many people about privacy and GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), I don’t think that I have ever come across anyone who is as positive and enthusiastic about it as Dr. David Darmanin, the founder and CEO of Hotjar.com.

My interview with Pravin Kothari, the founder and CEO of CipherCloud, covers a wide range of topics related to security software. Of course, Pravin describes the problem space and benefits of the CipherCloud Information Protection platform – a Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), which manages and

“The entire world is my target market” – that is essentially what Dr. Burkhard Wiegel, CEO of Zertificon is saying about his email encryption products. You can understand why he might say that – every company in the world, regardless of size or industry, uses email to communicate both internally

The security threats faced by small and mid-sized organizations are no different from those faced by much larger organizations. However, smaller organizations have proportionately smaller security budgets for technology and expert security staff making it very challenging. That is why turning to a

Ben Baumgartner, the co-founder of IDVector, has spent his extensive professional career working in the information security space. For much of that time, he held various roles in the U.S. Air Force and as a federal contractor, including managing a large Network Operations Security Center, and

A Website Application Firewall (WAF) works as a layer of protection between a website application and the visitors browsing the website. Application firewalls go beyond the metadata of the packets transferred at the network level, focusing on the data that is being transferred. WAFs were created to

It should not come as any surprise that the mantra repeated by Dr. Ellison Anne Williams, the CEO and founder of ENVEIL is “Encrypt Your Data.” As you will see, she actually goes further with her company’s tagline, which is “Never Decrypt.” It is not surprising because before establishing ENVEIL,

Although is not yet a household name, it may very well become one very soon. In my discussion with Paul Barnes, Senior Director of Product Strategy at Webroot, I learned that Webroot is the current leader in both retail sales share in the US and has the highest Net Promoter score for security

In this interview with Alexander Polyakov, the founder and CTO of ERPScan, we discuss a relatively new, or at least relatively unknown, form of security vulnerability detection. As Alexander explains, traditional vulnerability tools do not really address business applications such as SAP,

No matter how technically savvy one might be, we still come across terms that we don’t know or are not sure we completely understand. Simply doing a Google search for the term can return an overwhelming amount of information, not all of which is 100% accurate. Furthermore, many of the popular

Array Networks is a global leader in application delivery networking and security solutions. They offer enterprises the choice of either hardware solutions or functionally equivalent software solutions for deployment in their in-house data centers or in public clouds (i.e. Amazon Web Services or