National Public Data returns after massive Social Security Number leak

Remember that data broker nobody had ever heard of, but managed to leak a database which contained the data of some 2.9 billion people? It's back, and this time with a search function. National Public Data suffered an alleged breach in 2024 against a data base that, it turned out, carried 272...

DDoS attacks want to make sure you haven’t forgotten about them

Welcome to this weeks edition of the Threat Source newsletter. Distributed denial-of-service attacks DDoS have been around since before I even knew how to turn a computer on. These types of attacks, I feel, have the same vibe as the term "computer virus" -- something we used to talk about in the...

Lowriders Comeback -Music Game - Base64 encoded String, Dangerous filesystem permissions, WebView code execution vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Lowriders Comeback -Music Game published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Return of Lulzsec, Dump 170937 accounts from Military Dating Site

Return of Lulzsec, Dump 170937 accounts from Military Dating Site Another Hacking group after Lulzsec, comes with name LulzsecReborn has posted names, usernames, passwords, and emails of 170,937 accounts on MilitarySingles.com on Pastebin as part of the group's Operation Digiturk. LulzSec was a...