Let’s say you have an account with an online store that becomes the victim of a cyberattack. Find out the details of that specific attack, then take necessary security steps to protect your information, such as changing login credentials or cancelling credit cards associated with your account.

Hackers can use a loophole in one of the world’s largest Web sites, remotely take control of it and plant malware in it. The same loophole also affects hundreds of thousands of other sites. A particularly severe security breach was discovered on the MediaWiki platform, which is relied by hundreds of thousands of websites across […]