Zenly Bugs Exposed Users to Data Loss and Account Takeover
Security experts have revealed two vulnerabilities they found in a popular social app which could enable account takeover (ATO) or customer …
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Data Loss Reports to ICO Increase Once Again
The number of incidents reported to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in the second quarter of 2020 has increased by over a …
UK Home Office Data Loss Incidents Surge by 120%
The UK’s Home Office department reported a 120% rise in data loss incidents during the financial year 2019-20. Figures from the Home …
7 VPNs that leaked their logs – the logs that “didn’t exist”
VPNs are all the rage these days, because they’re supposed to boost your privacy and stop you being tracked. In fact, “VPN” has …
Cloud Adoption Held Back by Data Loss and Compliance Fears
UK businesses have been slow to move to the cloud because of concerns over data loss and compliance breaches, according to the 2020 UK …
133m records for sale as fruits of data breach spree keep raining down
A data breach broker has flooded a hacker forum with a whopping total of 132,957,579 user records. Bleeping Computer is in touch with the …
REvil gang threaten to auction celebrity data from Mariah Carey, Lebron James, MTV and more
What would you do if your law firm to the stars were to be presented with this choice: pay us $42 million or we’ll sell Mariah Carey’s …
Twitter apologizes for leaking businesses’ financial data
Twitter apologized on Tuesday for sticking business clients’ billing information into browser cache – a spot where the uninvited could …
‘BlueLeaks’ exposes sensitive files from hundreds of police departments
DDoSecret – a journalist collective known as a more transparent alternative to Wikileaks – published hundreds of thousands of …
Hacker indicted for stealing 65K employees’ PII in medical center hack
A Michigan man has been indicted for the 2014 hack of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s (UPMC’s) HR databases and theft of …
Smashing Security podcast #182: Space Force, credit card fraud, and beep-ti-beep
Graham finds himself in hot water with a security firm after a data breach, Carole discusses credit card fraud, and we have a pleasant …
Babylon mobile health app mixes up patient consultation videos
Mobile health app Babylon, which states its company mission as putting “an accessible and affordable health service in the hands of every …
Botnet blasts WordPress sites with configuration download attacks
Security researchers at WordFence, a company that’s focused on securing WordPress, have reported a burst of old-school attacks that are …
You DID change your password after that data breach, didn’t you?
Until a few years ago, received wisdom for passwords included advice to change them all on a regular and frequent basis, just because you …