Jeremiah Fowler, a researcher at Security Discovery, made a security discovery found that 198 million records from Dealer Leads were exposed to the public in a non password protected database. The exposed data is comprised of names, email addresses, phone numbers, physical addresses, IP addresses and identifiable information, including data purchasedContinue Reading
Cloudflare, a website security company, providing CDN, DDoS mitigation, and other website infrastructure services, may have violated U.S. regulations, according to a disclosure in a regulatory filing. Cloudflare is in the process of creating an initial public offering, and may go public this week. The company in documents declaring theContinue Reading
On Monday, Privacy International, a U.K.-based advocacy group said that Menstruation tracking apps have been sharing highly sensitive data with Facebook. And that this data has been used for ads targeting. In a blog post, Privacy International said apps including Maya and MIA had shared information with Facebook. The sharedContinue Reading
Users of the Exim email server software should update their installations immediately due to a vulnerability that allows hackers to install malicious code with root privileges. The vulnerability is found in all versions of Exim before, 4.92.2, released Friday night to address the problem. Exim is a very widely usedContinue Reading
Telegram, a privacy focused messaging app with millions of users, has fixed a bug allowing users to recover media that was ‘unsent’ by other people. Telegram, offers a messaging feature that allows users to “unsend” sent messages that were sent by mistake or otherwise. This removes the message from other people’s inboxes.Continue Reading
After major data breaches, like the leaked data from MoviePass, Facebook and Equifax. It’s easy to forget you can still have your data stollen the old low tech way. But it happens. According to a translation by SoraNews Yusuke Taniguchi, a 34-year-old store clerk working in a mall in Koto City,Continue Reading
Google has a team of white hat hackers whose job is to uncover security flaws in widely used tech. This team known as Project Zero discovered a flaw in iOS, the team alerted Apple on February 1, 2019 , and Apple released a patch a few days later on FebruaryContinue Reading
On Friday September 6th, The Wikimedia server was taken offline in Europe as well as parts of the Middle East and the U.S. due to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. DDoS attack is a large network of computers all trying to access a certain website or internet serviceContinue Reading
Facebook just announced a partnership with Microsoft and seven universities to launch a Deep Fake Detection Challenge. The contest offers a $10 million prize to spur the development of methods to identify, AI altured videos known as deepfakes. Artificial intelligence being used to superimpose a person’s face and voice on anotherContinue Reading
A database with the phone numbers of more than 419 million Facebook users was found online. The data, found on an unsecured cloud storage instance included phone numbers, Facebook user IDs and incomplete records of the user’s country, name and gender. Facebook may not be singularly responsible. According to TechCrunch theContinue Reading