Brazil's Biggest Cosmetic Brand Natura Exposes Personal Details of Its Users

Brazil's biggest cosmetics company Natura accidentally left hundreds of gigabytes of its customers' personal and payment-related information publicly accessible online that could have been accessed by anyone without authentication. SafetyDetective researcher Anurag Sen last month discovered two...

Third-Party Apps Exposed Over 540 Million Facebook Records

A cybersecurity firm found that two different third-party Facebook apps left millions of records about users sitting unprotected on Amazon’s servers...

Attacks On MongoDB Rise As Hijackings Continue

The number of insecure MongoDB databases being hijacked by criminals is growing according to experts who say attacks that began last week are now targeting more valuable assets. Since identifying attacks against MongoDB installations on Dec. 27, Victor Gevers, an ethical hacker and founder of GDI...

Viber's Poor Data Security Practices Threaten Users' Privacy

Last week we reported a critical vulnerability in the world's most popular messaging application WhatsApp, that could expose users’ GPS location data to hackers and was discovered by the researchers at UNH Cyber Forensics Research & Education Group. Same Group of researchers reported new set of...