The 5 breach readiness mistakes

The most common mistakes we see in engagements Responding to cyber incidents and data breaches is rarely straightforward. You are generally faced with making on-the-spot critical decisions with little or no real information. This often leads to mistakes. Let’s review some of the common mistakes w...

Exclusive — Hacker Steals Over 218 Million Zynga 'Words with Friends' Gamers Data

A Pakistani hacker who previously made headlines earlier this year for selling almost a billion user records stolen from nearly 45 popular online services has now claimed to have hacked the popular mobile social game company Zynga Inc. With a current market capitalization of over $5 billion, Zyng...

Exclusive — Hacker Steals Over 218 Million Zynga 'Words with Friends' Gamers Data

A Pakistani hacker who previously made headlines earlier this year for selling almost a billion user records stolen from nearly 45 popular online services has now claimed to have hacked the popular mobile social game company Zynga Inc. With a current market capitalization of over $5 billion, Zyng...

A DoorDash Breach Exposes Data of 4.9 Million Customers

A NotPetya lawsuit, bricked Mac Pros, and more of the week's top security news...

Dunkin’ Donuts Gets Hit with Lawsuit Over 2015 Attack

Dunkin’ Donuts is being sued for violating New York state data breach notification laws. The lawsuit alleges that Dunkin’ parent company, Dunkin’ Brands, failed to disclose a breach in 2015 that affected nearly 20,000 customers who were part of the company’s DD Perks loyalty program. New York...

DoorDash Breach Exposes 4.9 Million Users' Personal Data

Do you use DoorDash frequently to order your food online? If yes, you are highly recommended to change your account password right now. DoorDash—the popular on-demand food-delivery service—today confirmed a massive data breach that affects almost 5 million people using its platform, including its...

DoorDash Breach Exposes 4.9 Million Users' Personal Data

Do you use DoorDash frequently to order your food online? If yes, you are highly recommended to change your account password right now. DoorDash—the popular on-demand food-delivery service—today confirmed a massive data breach that affects almost 5 million people using its platform, including its...

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...

Code injection

In Advantech WebAccess/HMI Designer 2.1.9.31, Data from a Faulting Address controls Code Flow starting at PMV3!CTagInfoThreadBase::GetNICInfo+0x0000000000512918...

A week in security (September 16 -22)

Last week on Labs, we sounded the alarm about the relaunch of Emotet, one of the year's most dangerous forms of malware, with a new spam campaign. We also reported on how international students in UK are targeted by visa scammers, what CEOs think about a potential US data privacy law, and...

bibliotheque.nievre.fr Cross Site Scripting vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-979263 Security Researcher Rbcafe Helped patch 270 vulnerabilities Received 3 Coordinated Disclosure badges Received 8 recommendations , a holder of 3 badges for responsible and coordinated disclosure, found a security vulnerability affecting bibliotheque.nievre.fr website...

200K Sign Petition Against Equifax Data Breach Settlement

Consumers are furious over what they view as an unfair settlement between the U.S. government and Equifax over the latter’s now-infamous 2017 data leak–so much so that more than 200,000 of them so far have signed a petition against the deal. “Don’t let Equifax escape liability” is the title of th...

Think you’ve had a breach? Top 5 things to do

Realising that you may have had a data breach can be the start of a stressful and confusing time. Ideally, you would reach for your carefully crafted and practised incident management plan to guide you through the process. In reality though these plans fall into two camps: They don’t exist yet Th...

Mattress Company Leaks Data Records of 387K Customers

A Wisconsin mattress company leaked the records of 387,000 customers online in a database that lacked password protection, a security researcher has found. The incident once again demonstrates the potential security consequences of failing to take even the simplest security measures to protect...

These Hacks Require Literally Sneaking in the Backdoor

After slipping past security, picking a backdoor lock and gaining access to a company’s inner sanctum, a skilled hacker can cause mayhem. They can plant malware on a network, grab physical files and walk out the front door with a donut pilfered from the employee break room. Meet the world of a...

Every Ecuadorian has been compromised in massive data breach

By Sudais Data of Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks was also found in this breach who lived in the Ecuadorian embassy in London since 2012 till April this year after being granted asylum initially. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Every Ecuadorian has been compromised i...

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...

Marketing Analytics Company Leaks Deep Profiles of Entire Ecuador Population

The entire population of Ecuador has been impacted by an open database on an unsecured server, housing a massive amount of personal information collected from public-sector sources by a marketing analytics company. The leaked database, which was found by vpnMentor’s research team, includes record...

Hacking with AWS: incorporating leaky buckets into your OSINT workflow

Penetration testing is often conducted by security researchers to help organizations identify holes in their security and fix them, before cybercriminals have the chance. While there's no malicious intent for the researcher, part of his job is to think and act like a cybercriminal would when...