{"id":77575,"date":"2014-01-11T12:14:29","date_gmt":"2014-01-11T06:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.quickheal.com\/?p=77575"},"modified":"2014-01-11T12:14:29","modified_gmt":"2014-01-11T06:44:29","slug":"latest-it-security-news-and-updates-for-the-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/latest-it-security-news-and-updates-for-the-week-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest IT Security News and Updates for the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time for another roundup of the latest IT security news, updates, and alerts for this week.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #009900; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;\">1<\/span>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.it\/1d9Vvdf\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-77577 alignnone\" alt=\"gmail_news_cnet\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.quickheal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/gmail_news_cnet-300x224.jpg\" width=\"297\" height=\"222\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Gmail, strangers now can email you. Know how from this <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.it\/1d9Vvdf\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #009900; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;\">2<\/span>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/cnet.co\/1ap7R0w\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-77580 alignnone\" alt=\"yahoo_mail_encryption\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.quickheal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/yahoo_mail_encryption-300x195.jpg\" width=\"297\" height=\"193\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yahoo Mail finally gets 100% HTTPS encryption. Read more about it <a href=\"https:\/\/cnet.co\/1ap7R0w\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #009900; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;\">3<\/span>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/cnet.co\/1a8JVxY\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-77578 alignnone\" alt=\"snapchat_hack\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.quickheal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/snapchat_hack-300x223.jpg\" width=\"295\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Snapchat is sorry for the data breach of its 4.6 million accounts. Read more on this <a href=\"https:\/\/cnet.co\/1a8JVxY\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #009900; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;\">4<\/span>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bbc.in\/1aPld2B\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-77576 alignnone\" alt=\"bitcoin_yahoo_malware\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.quickheal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/bitcoin_yahoo_malware-300x208.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hackers used Yahoo malware to turn infected computers into &#8216;Bitcoin Slaves&#8217;. Read the entire story <a href=\"https:\/\/bbc.in\/1aPld2B\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #009900; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;\">5<\/span>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bbc.in\/1dleBPj\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-77579 alignnone\" alt=\"target_70_million_hack\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.quickheal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/target_70_million_hack-300x169.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Remember the massive Target data breach of 40 million customers? According to recent statement by Target, up to 70 million customers might have been affected. More about this news <a href=\"https:\/\/bbc.in\/1dleBPj\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time for another roundup of the latest IT security news, updates, and alerts for this week. &nbsp; 1. Thanks to Gmail, strangers now can email you. Know how from this post. 2. Yahoo Mail finally gets 100% HTTPS encryption. Read more about it here. 3. Snapchat is sorry for the data breach of its 4.6 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":77578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[719,331,99,833,834,839,840],"class_list":["post-77575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bitcoin","tag-encryption","tag-gmail","tag-snapchat","tag-target-data-breach","tag-yahoo-mail","tag-yahoo-malware"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77575"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}