MyHeritage Says Over 92 Million User Accounts Have Been Compromised

MyHeritage, the Israel-based DNA testing service designed to investigate family history, has disclosed that the company website was breached last year by unknown attackers, who stole login credentials of its more than 92 million customers. The company learned about the breach on June 4, 2018, aft...

GDPR Is Here: Put File Integrity Monitoring in Your Toolbox

In this latest post of our series on the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, we’ll explain how file integrity monitoring FIM can be crucial in helping organizations comply with this severe regulation. GDPR, which went into effect in May and applies to organizations worldwide that handle EU...

75% of the 'Left to Get Hacked' Redis Servers Found Infected

Despite the continual emergence of new cyber attacks because of misconfigured servers and applications, people continue to ignore security warnings. A massive malware campaign designed to target open Redis servers, about which researchers warned almost two months ago, has now grown and already...

Personal data of over 50,000 Honda Connect App leaked

By Waqas Researchers at Kromtech Security Center discovered a trove of data belonging This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Personal data of over 50,000 Honda Connect App leaked...

Uber: Open AWS S3 bucket at ubergreece.s3.amazonaws.com exposes confidential internal documents and files

The Uber Greece AWS S3 bucket was open, allowing any remote user to view and download the files. Some of these files included confidential internal documents which could negatively impact Uber's brand. I found a uber microsite that had a link to this AWS bucket being used by Uber greece. Had some...

Ticketfly, Major Concert Venues Still Offline After Hack

UPDATE Ticketfly and several major venues’ services are still offline Monday morning as they struggle to recover from a major hack that have brought down their websites and disrupted several public on-sale concert tickets. Ticket distribution service Ticketfly said in a statement that it has...

So, you just caused a data breach, by CCing the wrong person in an email…

I had two encounters today both of which I thought I’d share. The first thing that happened A received a call from a friend who had made a mistake at work, due to the area I work within they decided I could save them Yes, it happened THEY COPIED THE WRONG PERSON IN AN EMAIL. Happily working away...

Yahoo! Hacker Sentenced; Coke Opens Up a Can of Data Breach

Fortune 500 breaches seem to be a theme this week. As the Yahoo attacker responsible for the company’s 500 million-account data breach has been sentenced, Coca-Cola disclosed an insider stole the information of 8,000 employees. A Canadian man who pleaded guilty last year to a “hacking-for-hire”...

MachForm < 4.2.3 - SQL Injection / Path Traversal / Upload Bypass Vulnerabilities

Exploit for php platform in category web applications Vendor: Appnitro Product webpage: https://www.machform.com/ Full-Disclose: https://metalamin.github.io/MachForm-not-0-day-EN/ Fix: https://www.machform.com/blog-machform-423-security-release/ Author: Amine Taouirsa Twitter: @metalamin Google...

Two major Canadian banks blackmailed after alleged data breach

While the US was celebrating Memorial Day on Monday, Canada was dealing with an unusual data breach affecting two popular financial institutions: Simplii Financial and Bank of Montreal BMO. The CBC broke the story and updated it throughout the day to mention that some 90,000 customers were possib...

pwnedOrNot - Tool To Find Passwords For Compromised Email Accounts Using HaveIBeenPwned API

pwnedOrNot is a python script which checks if the email account has been compromised in a data breach, if the email account is compromised it proceeds to find passwords for the compromised account. It uses haveibeenpwned v2 api to test email accounts and searches for the password in Pastebin Dump...

This Week in Security News: Hacker Reports and Router Reboots

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, hackers warn Congress that internet security across software and computer networks are insecure. Also, a malware, dubbed VPNFilter, infected...

GDPR Compliance: Manage Procedural Risk Assessments with New GDPR Templates

The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation GDPR goes into effect today, imposing strict security requirements on any company worldwide that handles the personal data of EU residents. Qualys Security Assessment Questionnaire SAQ – a Qualys app that helps you with this type of procedural risk...

See If You’re GDPR-Ready With Our Last-Minute Checklist

Time’s just about run out to get all your ducks in a row for the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation GDPR going into effect on May 25, and we’ve put together a little refresher toolkit to help you dot your Is and cross your Ts. Whether you’re planning on sticking to the new GDPR guidelines or...

Data of millions of Japanese sold on underground hacking forums

By Waqas A cybercriminal operating from outside China was found to be This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Data of millions of Japanese sold on underground hacking forums...

Healthcare IT Leaders Most Concerned about Ransomware and Insider Threats: Survey

Just over a year ago, the WannaCry ransomware attack wreaked havoc on the UK National Health Service NHS, ultimately disrupting a third of its facilities and causing a rash of canceled appointments and operations. Breaches are always a concern in healthcare, but this incident brought to light its...

Another Spectre-Like CPU Vulnerability

Google and Microsoft researchers have disclosed another Spectre-like CPU side-channel vulnerability, called "Speculative Store Bypass." Like the others, the fix will slow the CPU down. The German tech site Heise reports that more are coming. I'm not surprised. Writing about Spectre and Meltdown i...

GDPR Is Here: Achieve Superior Data Breach Prevention and Detection with Qualys

Turned into law in 2016, the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation GDPR finally goes into effect this week, slapping strict requirements on millions of businesses and subjecting violators to severe penalties. The complex regulation applies to any organization worldwide -- not just in Europe --...

TeenSafe Tracking App Exposes Thousands of Private Records

Thousands of accounts for TeenSafe, which is a mobile app that parents can use to monitor what their kids are doing online, have been exposed in the latest Amazon Web Services cloud misconfiguration. According to a report from ZDNet, which verified the data breach, there were at least two servers...

Are VPNs a thing of the past?

Attention world: In 2018, we officially surpassed 4 billion internet users1 - and there are no signs of adoption rate slowing down. Yet the Internet as we know it has only been around since the 1990s. Along with it, different iterations of virtual private networks VPNs have been created and...