News Wrap: Voice Assistant Laser Hack, Twitter Insider Threats, Data Breach Fine Fails

Threatpost editors break down the top news stories for the week ended Nov. 8. The hot stories of the week include: Despite trillions of dollars in data-breach fine payouts, each year the number of compromised companies and individuals with private data exposed rise – a Threatpost feature looks at...

Instagram clamps down on fake messages with anti-phishing tool

Instagram accounts will always be a popular target for scammers. You might not think it’s a big deal if someone has their account swiped, but it’s often the vanguard of many online businesses. A takeover, or a deletion, can be absolutely devastating. Smart hacking crews are always in the...

CVE-2019-14808

An issue was discovered in the RENPHO application 3.0.0 for iOS. It transmits JSON data unencrypted to a server without an integrity check, if a user changes personal data in his profile tab e.g., exposure of his birthday or logs into his account i.e., exposure of credentials...

Code injection

An issue was discovered in the RENPHO application 3.0.0 for iOS. It transmits JSON data unencrypted to a server without an integrity check, if a user changes personal data in his profile tab e.g., exposure of his birthday or logs into his account i.e., exposure of credentials...

A pervert Yahoo employee hacked 6,000 accounts using internal system

By Waqas A former Yahoo engineer hacked 6,000 Yahoo Mail account to extract the personal information of victims primarily sexual images and videos. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: A pervert Yahoo employee hacked 6,000 accounts using internal system...

DoorDash Data Breach Impacts Personal Data of Almost 5M Users

Food delivery service DoorDash disclosed a data breach that affects almost 5 million customers, drivers and merchants using its platform. DoorDash, an on-demand food delivery service, connects end users with local restaurants and relies on contracted drivers who use their own vehicles for deliver...

IT Firm Manager Arrested in the Biggest Data Breach Case of Ecuador's History

Ecuador officials have arrested the general manager of IT consulting firm Novaestrat after the personal details of almost the entire population of the Republic of Ecuador left exposed online in what seems to be the most significant data breach in the country's history. Personal records of more th...

IT Firm Manager Arrested in the Biggest Data Breach Case of Ecuador's History

Ecuador officials have arrested the general manager of IT consulting firm Novaestrat after the personal details of almost the entire population of the Republic of Ecuador left exposed online in what seems to be the most significant data breach in the country's history. Personal records of more th...

Understanding CCPA: It's Time to Action a Plan for Compliance

Notice to all procrastinators: The final countdown to the California Consumer Privacy Act CCPA has begun. On January 1, 2020, companies or organizations that do business in California will be required to comply with the state's strict new privacy legislation that establishes a legal and enforceab...

Windows NTFS Privileged File Access Enumeration Vulnerability

NTFS is a proprietary journaling file system developed by Microsoft. Windows NTFS suffers from a privileged file access enumeration vulnerability that could be exploited by an attacker with user rights to gather intelligence or personal data...

Data Leak Impacts Millions of Yves Rocher Cosmetics Company Customers

UPDATE Cosmetics giant Yves Rocher is warning that a giant data leak exposed the personal data of millions of its customers and reams of sensitive internal company information to the public. The data exposure stems from a database left unprotected by a third-party consultant to the firm...

ntp:fuzz_ntpd_receive: Use-of-uninitialized-value in receive

Detailed Report: https://oss-fuzz.com/testcase?key=5684730627883008 Project: ntp Fuzzing Engine: libFuzzer Fuzz Target: fuzzntpdreceive Job Type: libfuzzermsanntp Platform Id: linux Crash Type: Use-of-uninitialized-value Crash Address: Crash State: receive fuzzntpdreceive.c fuzzntpdreceive.c...

Hostinger Data Breach: 14M Customer Passwords, Personal Data at Risk

Web hosting company Hostinger is warning that a breach of one of its servers potentially gave bad actors access to the hashed passwords and personal data of more than 14 million customers. Hostinger, a popular web, cloud and virtual private server hosting provider and domain registrar with 29...

Hostinger Suffers Data Breach – Resets Password For 14 Million Users

Popular web hosting provider Hostinger has been hit by a massive data breach, as a result of which the company has reset passwords for all customers as a precautionary measure. In a blog post published on Sunday, Hostinger revealed that "an unauthorized third party" breached one of its servers an...

CVE-2018-20981

The ninja-forms plugin before 3.3.9 for WordPress has insufficient restrictions on submission-data retrieval during Export Personal Data requests...

CVE-2018-20981

The ninja-forms plugin before 3.3.9 for WordPress has insufficient restrictions on submission-data retrieval during Export Personal Data requests...

Design/Logic Flaw

The ninja-forms plugin before 3.3.9 for WordPress has insufficient restrictions on submission-data retrieval during Export Personal Data requests...

CVE-2018-20981

The ninja-forms plugin before 3.3.9 for WordPress has insufficient restrictions on submission-data retrieval during Export Personal Data requests...

CVE-2019-14932

The Recruitment module in Humanica Humatrix 7 1.0.0.681 and 1.0.0.203 allows remote attackers to access all candidates' information on the website via a modified selApp variable to personalData/resumeDetail.cfm. This includes personal information and other sensitive data...

Information Leakage

craftcms/cms is vulnerable to information leakage. The leakage is possible because it does not adopt the config settings in preserveExifData on image upload, revealing personal/geolocation data to the public...