News & Reviews:   Security

Zoom has been working on improving its platform in recent weeks. It has to, after all the bad press it's gotten for accounts being stolen, Zoombombing, and more. In the latest piece of news, the company has announced the release of its version 5.0 update, which comes with important security improvements.

Based on an article by wired.com, it seems a security flaw in car immobilizers could allow hackers and car thieves to access the car and drive it away. This can be done by scanning the key fob using an RFID reader, copy the data and have it disable the in the cause it to access the victim's vehicles without needing the original key fob.

Starting from 12 July 2019, it will necessary for riders to send a selfie to Grab via the app to be used as a form of verification. Without the said verification, Grab app usage is presumably limited and they will not be able to book rides via the application.

Boost has given their response on the RM2000+ theft, from an unfortunate user who is located in Kluang. The theft, which was carried out through the use of the Boost app had already been reported to the officials and it is currently under investigation. The response mentions that upon investigation, Boost did not encounter any security breach in their systems and reassures that everyone’s data is safe and secured.

Boost is a free-to-use e-wallet which allows the user to make payments through the app to all participating merchants on its platform, such as 99 Speedmart, Steam, Shopee and more. In order to do so, users are required to top-up the e-wallet using either a credit or debit card. That being said, there was an unfortunate case where a user from  Kluang, Johor had up to RM2000 stolen from her through the Boost app.

There was news a few months ago that a large scale hacking event transpired involving Yahoo accounts, which amounted to about half a million different accounts. Now a new report has surfaced, stating that the data breech is bigger than expected. A further 1 billion accounts was compromised, on top of the previous number of account.

Information compromised may have included names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, and there’s a possibility that some security questions and answers were also compromised. Yahoo believes the reason for the breach was that a hacker was able to figure out how to forge cookies to gain access to these accounts. Yahoo already started to email affected customers on this matter, and have taken steps to rectify this issue.

You should check your account, as a new bug has made headlines with Android accounts across the world. Thanks to the Gooligan bug, several malicious apps have been downloaded by Android users allowing the malware inside them to wreak havoc with as many as 1.3 million Google accounts.

After their purchase of the company SurfEasy that provides easy-to-use VPN apps, Opera has finally released Opera VPN for Android for free as a standalone app.

Having a secure mobile experience is crucial these days, as many unscrupulous people will want to get their grubby little fingers into your account. Hence why a secure mobile phone is important. A security analyst said that the best phones to have now are the Nexus devices, and phones from Samsung.

Head's up. If you use either Google Mail, Yahoo Mail or Hotmail (or even all of them) as your main mail service, you might want to change the account access password pronto, as a total of 97 million account details from the three services has fallen to the hands of unscrupulous individuals online.