by Syneidis Team | May 16, 2019 | Cybersecurity, News, Uncategorised
On May 14 was detected a vulnerability in the popular messaging application: WhatsApp. The threat allows hackers to install spyware on users’ devices, simply through a video call. The spokesmen of the application have commented: “we believe that an...
by Syneidis Team | Oct 26, 2018 | Cybersecurity, News
It’s been almost a month since a new security incident from Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook social network has came to the public’s attention. The company revealed on September 28, that 50 million users had fallen victim to their accounts being exposed,...
by Syneidis Team | Aug 10, 2018 | Cybersecurity, News, Uncategorised
In the last decades the internet has evolved to the point that cybersecurity has become increasingly difficult to protect. Despite the serious evidence that shows risks of this technological change, It has not been the center of public debate until a few years ago....
by Syneidis Team | Aug 2, 2018 | Cybersecurity, News, Uncategorised
On May 24, the Bank of Chile was the victim of a cyber attack involving various entities in South America’s financial system. They ended up settling with the theft of 10 million dollars of bank funds. As has been published in various media outlets and further...
by Syneidis Team | Nov 28, 2017 | Blog, Cybersecurity, News
On November 21 Uber confessed that in October 2016 the company suffered a cyber attack that affected the data of 57 million accounts, from both users and drivers of the well-known global transportation platform. Apparently 2 individuals managed to obtain...
by Frederic Thenault | Nov 13, 2017 | Blog, Cybersecurity, News
You may have already heard about the Equifax case. Its repercution is not only due to the magnitude of the theft of data, but also to the sensitivity of the type of data handled by this American company. Equifax is the largest credit reporting agency in the...
