U.S. Dept Of Defense: PII leakage-Full SSN on ███

Summary: I discovered a pdf file on ████████ that outlines various information corresponding to military members. It reveals information on date of birth, where they were born, marriage status, race, children/dependents, etc Description: I discovered what looks to be an internal file that outline...

This Flaw Could Have Allowed Hackers to Hack Any Instagram Account Within 10 Minutes

Watch out! Facebook-owned photo-sharing service has recently patched a critical vulnerability that could have allowed hackers to compromise any Instagram account without requiring any interaction from the targeted users. Instagram is growing quickly—and with the most popular social media network ...

Unprotected MongoDB leaks 188m users’ data from sensitive search engine

By Waqas Another day, another data breach; this time, a security researcher has discovered a massive trove of data hosted on an unprotected MongoDB database available for anyone to access without any authentication. Discovered by Comparitech's researcher Bob Diachenko on June 18, 2019; the databa...

Marriott Faces $123 Million GDPR Fine Over Starwood Data Breach

After fining British Airways with a record fine of £183 million earlier this week, the UK's data privacy regulator is now planning to slap world's biggest hotel chain Marriott International with a £99 million $123 million fine under GDPR over 2014 data breach. This is the second major penalty...

Marriott Faces $123 Million GDPR Fine Over Starwood Data Breach

After fining British Airways with a record fine of £183 million earlier this week, the UK's data privacy regulator is now planning to slap world's biggest hotel chain Marriott International with a £99 million $123 million fine under GDPR over 2014 data breach. This is the second major penalty...

Marriott Hit With $123M Fine For Massive 2018 Data Breach

The U.K.’s privacy watchdog is hitting Marriott International with a $123 million £99 million penalty stemming from its 2018 data breach of more than 383 million guest records. The Tuesday fine is issued by the Information Commissioner’s Office ICO and comes only a day after the organization...

Post-Data Breach, British Airways Slapped With Record $230M Fine

UPDATE A record $230 million fine has been proposed against British Airways after a 2018 data breach impacted 500,000 of the airline’s customers. If approved, the fee would be the biggest General Data Protection Regulation GDPR fine to be issued to a company so far. On Monday, the Information...

British Airways Fined £183 Million Under GDPR Over 2018 Data Breach

Britain's Information Commissioner's Office ICO today hit British Airways with a record fine of £183 million for failing to protect the personal information of around half a million of its customers during last year's security breach. British Airways, who describes itself as "The World's Favorite...

British Airways Fined £183 Million Under GDPR Over 2018 Data Breach

Britain's Information Commissioner's Office ICO today hit British Airways with a record fine of £183 million for failing to protect the personal information of around half a million of its customers during last year's security breach. British Airways, who describes itself as "The World's Favorite...

Data Breach Lessons from the Trenches

In this webcast Threatpost editor Tom Spring examines the data breach epidemic with the help of noted breach hunter and cybersecurity expert Chris Vickery. He shares how companies can identify their own insecure data, remediate against a data breach and offers tips on protecting data against futu...

The Logic of a Classic Advanced Persistent Threat Attack

By David Balaban Story of an Advanced Persistent Threat attack against a large corporation that started with a series of blank emails. Advanced persistent threats APTs are increasingly targeting enterprise networks nowadays. This article highlights a recent attack against a large, well-protected...

Related vulnerabilities have now been patched: the Orvibo smart home devices disclosure of user information-bug warning-the black bar safety net

From Orvibo aspect to understand, this relates to the information disclosure of the security vulnerability has now been fixed, and the user information of the protection level, at the same time they also want and professional information security research team into cooperation with the protection...

AppTrana — Website Security Solution That Actually Works

Data loss and theft continues to rise, and hardly a day goes by without significant data breaches hit the headlines. In January 2019 alone, 1.76 billion records were leaked, and according to IBM's Data Breach study, the average cost of each lost or stolen record has reached about $148. Most of...

MongoDB Leak Exposed Millions of Medical Insurance Records

An online database belonging to insurance marketing website MedicareSupplement.com was found exposing more than 5 million records with personal information. MedicareSupplement.com is a U.S.-based marketing site that allows users to find supplemental medical insurance available in their area...

Leaky Amazon S3 Buckets Expose Data of Netflix, TD Bank

Three publicly-accessible cloud storage buckets from data management company Attunity leaked more than a terabyte of data from its top Fortune 100 customers – including internal business documents, system passwords, sensitive employee information. Israel-based Attunity, which was acquired by Qlik...

Breach at Cloud Solution Provider PCM Inc.

A digital intrusion at PCM Inc., a major U.S.-based cloud solution provider, allowed hackers to access email and file sharing systems for some of the company's clients, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. El Segundo, Calif. based PCM NASDAQ:PCMI is a provider of technology products, services and solutio...

Facebook Faces Lawsuit Over Massive 2018 Data Breach

Facebook lost a key court ruling last week and now must face a lawsuit tied to a data breach of its platform disclosed in 2018, which impacted nearly 30 million of its users. The data breach, first disclosed by Facebook in September 2018, directly impacted the access tokens of 30 million accounts...

Cop Gets $585K After Colleagues Snooped on Her DMV Data

A jury this week finds that Minneapolis police officers abused their license database access. Dozens of other lawsuits have made similar claims...

Collections Firm Behind LabCorp, Quest Breaches Files for Bankruptcy

A medical billing firm responsible for a recent eight-month data breach that exposed the personal information on nearly 20 million Americans has filed for bankruptcy, citing "enormous expenses" from notifying affected consumers and the loss of its four largest customers. The filing, first reporte...

CVE-2018-18472

Western Digital WD My Book Live and WD My Book Live Duo all versions have a root Remote Command Execution bug via shell metacharacters in the /api/1.0/rest/languageconfiguration language parameter. It can be triggered by anyone who knows the IP address of the affected device, as exploited in the...