This week’s security news was dire. Here’s what you might have missed, from bedroom breaches to garage fires.
It’s difficult being a password manager. This week, we reported that Dropbox is following Microsoft’s lead by dropping its password storage features. The latter will at least retain support for passkeys, but as of this weekend, any passwords you have in Microsoft Authenticator will be deleted and moved to Edge instead. Luckily, we have guides on what passkeys are and what to do with those passwords to keep them safe.
It’s been a busy week for the PCMag security team, and next week will be more of the same as the Black Hat and DEF CON security conferences ramp up. We’ll be on the ground at Black Hat, and we analysts have a lot we’re looking forward to. We’re particularly excited about the prospect that hacked EV chargers could burn your house down. More on that next week.
This week, however, we continued our coverage of the Tea hack, in which a dating safety app made for women to discuss things like, “Hey, does anyone know if this guy I’m about to meet is going to kill me,” got breached, leaking thousands of selfies used to verify users on the women-only site, conversations in the app, and more. Predictably, the hack was led by 4chan, which, despite some reports, is very much not dead.
4chan isn’t the only source of wrongdoing this week. We also reported that an early access game on Steam called Chemia has been updated to include “multiple malware families,” so keep an eye on that if you’re a fan of early access PC games. Hackers also hit insurance company Allianz, making off with data on the vast majority of its 1.4 million customers. On top of all of that, there’s a new phishing scam targeting Instagram users on the rise, and like many phishing scams, it’s easy to spot once you know what you’re looking for, but if you don’t, good luck.
That’s not to say it’s all doom and gloom, however. Sex toy company Lovense got around to patching a vulnerability that could leak your email address this week, and security company Proton launched an authenticator app to compete with Google and Microsoft, and it looks good so far. Look forward to a full review of it soon.
Security news never stops, so each week we collect the biggest cybersecurity stories so you can stay informed and safe.
