On 25 May 2018 the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force. At its heart, GDPR set out to update rules around privacy and consent for the digital age and to ensure that organisations are responsible in their handling of their 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 …
The messaging app that will replace the government’s use of WhatsApp and Telegram was released last week, with security vulnerability included. The French Government last week launched a custom messaging application called Tchap, touting it as being “more secure than 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 …
A hack that Microsoft said affected “some” of its users’ email accounts is much worse than initially thought, according to reports. On Saturday, the company confirmed that some users of its email services had been targeted by hackers. But the 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 …
An online email verification service has taken itself offline after approximately 809 million of its customers’ emails were exposed through an unprotected server. Researchers discovered a non-password protected MongoDB instance amounting to 150GB of data split across four separate collections Read More …
Over a quarter of surveyed financial institutions reported that they were targeted by destructive cyberattacks over the past year, bent on completely destroying data. That’s according to a new Carbon Black report unveiled at RSA this year. The report, “Modern 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 …