This Week in Security News: 10,000 Users Affected by Leak from Misconfigured AWS Cloud Storage and Massive U.S. Property and Demographic Database Exposes 200 Million Records

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about how the data of train commuters in the U.K. who were using the free Wi-Fi in Network Rail-managed stations was unintentionally...

Virgin Media Data Leak Exposes Details of 900,000 Customers

On the same day yesterday, when the US-based telecom giant T-Mobile admitted a data breach, the UK-based telecommunication provider Virgin Media announced that it has also suffered a data leak incident exposing the personal information of roughly 900,000 customers. What happened? Unlike the...

Zynga Faces Lawsuit Over Massive Words with Friends Breach

Mobile game developer Zynga could face a class-action lawsuit stemming from a massive data breach last September, which impacted 218 million users of the Words with Friends mobile app. The news comes as other big names face security incidents: T-Mobile and Carnival Cruise Lines have admitted this...

Zynga Faces Lawsuit Over Massive Words with Friends Breach

Mobile game developer Zynga could face a class-action lawsuit stemming from a massive data breach last September, which impacted 218 million users of the Words with Friends mobile app. The news comes as other big names face security incidents: T-Mobile and Carnival Cruise Lines have admitted this...

A Massive U.S. Property and Demographic Database Exposes 200 Million Records

More than 200 million records containing a wide range of property-related information on US residents were left exposed on a database that was accessible on the web without requiring any password or authentication. The exposed data — a mix of personal and demographic details — included the name,...

Hackers Compromise T-Mobile Employee' Email Accounts and Steal User' Data

If you are a T-Mobile customer, this news may concern you. US-based telecom giant T-Mobile has suffered yet another data breach incident that recently exposed personal and accounts information of both its employees and customers to unknown hackers. What happened? In a breach notification posted o...

Hackers Compromise T-Mobile Employee' Email Accounts and Steal User' Data

If you are a T-Mobile customer, this news may concern you. US-based telecom giant T-Mobile has suffered yet another data breach incident that recently exposed personal and accounts information of both its employees and customers to unknown hackers. What happened? In a breach notification posted o...

Design/Logic Flaw

An issue was discovered in Zammad 3.0 through 3.2. It does not prevent caching of confidential data within browser memory. An attacker who either remotely compromises or obtains physical access to a user's workstation can browse the browser cache contents and obtain sensitive information. The...

Loyalty Cards Targeted in Tesco Clubcard Attack

U.K. supermarket giant Tesco is warning on a credential-stuffing attack that potentially affects 600,000 members of its Clubcard loyalty program. It said that it detected cybercriminals trying out different name and password combos, gleaned from a database of stolen usernames and passwords for...

A not so Clearview?

Unless you were asleep last week, you probably saw the press story about the controversial facial recognition vendor, Clearview AI, being breached. There is debate about whether Clearview should be permitted to scrape photos from social media and use them to populate its facial recognition system...

Have I Been Pwned No Longer For Sale

After announcing last year that he was looking to sell Have I Been Pwned HIPB, Troy Hunt said this week that the popular service has been pulled off the market and will instead continue to be run independently. HIBP offers a free service for consumers to check if their usernames and passwords hav...

Apple removes Clearview AI iPhone app from App Store

By Waqas Clearview AI suffered a massive data breach a few days ago and now the company has its app suspended by Apple. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Apple removes Clearview AI iPhone app from App Store...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: No ACL on S3 Bucket in [https://www.██████████/]

Summary: Hi team!, i was able to move and download all file in s3 bucket that's under ████ control cuz it didn't has ACL Step-by-step Reproduction Instructions first we will try to access all files via browser by go to this s3.amazonaws.com/files.████████ Now We Will try to download all files on...

Walgreens Mobile App Leaks Prescription Data

Popular pharmacy chain Walgreens is warning that a bug in its official mobile app may have exposed sensitive data, including customers’ full names and information on prescriptions for medications they are taking. The security issue stemmed from an “error” in the personal secure messaging feature ...

Booked < 2.2.6 - Broken Authentication to Export Users Data in CSV

The plugin allows users to Book Appointment by providing their PII such as Email, Name, Phone Number and Personal Message. The vulnerability allows anyone to Dump all records of users and their appointment details in CSV as an unauthenticated user. The user also gets registered as a WP User after...

Why Businesses Should Consider Managed Cloud-Based WAF Protection

The City of Baltimore was under cyber-attack last year, with hackers demanding $76,000 in ransom. Though the city chose not to pay the ransom, the attack still cost them nearly $18 million in damages, and then the city signed up for a $20 million cyber insurance policy. It's very evident that...

Why Businesses Should Consider Managed Cloud-Based WAF Protection

The City of Baltimore was under cyber-attack last year, with hackers demanding $76,000 in ransom. Though the city chose not to pay the ransom, the attack still cost them nearly $18 million in damages, and then the city signed up for a $20 million cyber insurance policy. It's very evident that...

cmsdowns.com Cross Site Scripting vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-1104221 Security Researcher geeknik Helped patch 8696 vulnerabilities Received 8 Coordinated Disclosure badges Received 20 recommendations , a holder of 8 badges for responsible and coordinated disclosure, found a security vulnerability affecting cmsdowns.com website and i...

CVE-2018-14705

In Drobo 5N2 4.0.5, all optional applications lack any form of authentication/authorization validation. As a result, any user capable of accessing the device over the network may interact with and control these applications. This not only poses a severe risk to the availability of these...

Data Breach Occurs at Agency in Charge of Secure White House Communications

Hackers have compromised the Department of Defense DoD agency in charge of securing and managing communications for the White House, leaking personally identifiable information PII of employees and leading to concerns over the safety of the communications of top-level U.S. officials in the run-up...