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A Russian security researcher has found that hardware equipment meant to be used by Russian authorities to intercept internet traffic had been leaving data exposed on the internet. The leaky equipment were SORM devices. These are hardware wiretaps that all Read More …
This year is on track to be the worst year on record for data breach activity, according to a recent analysis. Within the first six months of this year, there have been 3,813 incidents publicly reported, according to Risk Based Read More …
An Elasticsearch server left connected to the internet without a password, or firewall protection, has leaked what appears to be personal records and patient information for roughly 85 percent of Panama’s citizens. The leaky server was found online last week by Bob Read More …
A team of security researchers has claims to have found a publicly-accessible database that exposes information on more than 80 million U.S. households—nearly 65 percent of the total number of American households. Discovered by VPNMentor’s research team lead by hacktivists Read More …
A hacker who spoke with ZDNet in February about wanting to put up for sale the data of over one billion users is getting dangerously close to his goal after releasing another 65.5 million records last week and reaching a grand total Read More …
It’s been a bad week for Facebook users. First, the social media company was caught asking some of its new users to share passwords for their registered email accounts and now… …the bad week gets worse with a new privacy breach. More Read More …
A hacker who has previously put up for sale over 840 million user records in the past month, has returned with a fourth round of hacked data that he’s selling on a dark web marketplace. This time, the hacker has Read More …
A Dow Jones watchlist of more than 2.4 million entities that its clients should consider ‘high-risk’ has been inadvertently leaked to the public, thanks to an incorrectly configured and unsecured Elasticsearch database. The database, which was hosted on AWS, was discovered Read More …
A security researcher resorted to a public tweet about a serious data breach involving customer data, after a South African electricity provider ignored all other pleas to resolve the leak. Security researcher Devin Stokes issued the public tweet to Eskom, which Read More …
Remember “The Shadow Brokers” and the arrest of a former NSA contractor accused of stealing 50 Terabytes of top secret documents from the intelligence agency? It turns out that, Kaspersky Lab, which has been banned in US government computers over Read More …