Company Detected Years-Long Breach Only After Hacker Maxed Out Servers' Storage

What could be even worse than getting hacked? It's the "failure to detect intrusions" that always results in huge losses to the organizations. Utah-based technology companyInfoTrax Systems is the latest example of such a security blunder, as the company was breached more than 20 times from May 20...

BEC Scam Costs Media Giant Nikkei $29 Million

Media conglomerate Nikkei Inc. has fallen victim to a business email compromise BEC scam that fleeced the company out of $29 million. Nikkei is Japan’s largest financial media organization and lends its name to Japan’s premier stock index, which is the equivalent of the Dow Jones Industrial Avera...

Watch Out IT Admins! Two Unpatched Critical RCE Flaws Disclosed in rConfig

If you're using the popular rConfig network configuration management utility to protect and manage your network devices, here we have an important and urgent warning for you. A cybersecurity researcher has recently published details and proof-of-concept exploits for two unpatched, critical remote...

UniCredit Bank Suffers 'Data Incident' Exposing 3 Million Italian Customer Records

UniCredit, an Italian global banking and financial services company, announced today that it suffered a security incident that leaked some personal information belonging to at least 3 million of its domestic customers. Officially founded in 1870, UniCredit is Italy's biggest banking and financial...

UniCredit Bank Suffers 'Data Incident' Exposing 3 Million Italian Customer Records

UniCredit, an Italian global banking and financial services company, announced today that it suffered a security incident that leaked some personal information belonging to at least 3 million of its domestic customers. Officially founded in 1870, UniCredit is Italy's biggest banking and financial...

Unsecured Adobe Server Exposes Data for 7.5 Million Creative Cloud Users

The U.S. multinational computer software company Adobe has suffered a serious security breach earlier this month that exposed user records' database belonging to the company's popular Creative Cloud service. With an estimated 15 million subscribers, Adobe Creative Cloud or Adobe CC is a...

42 Adware Apps with 8 Million Downloads Traced Back to Vietnamese Student

First of all, if you have any of the below-listed apps installed on your Android device, you are advised to uninstall it immediately. Cybersecurity researchers have identified 42 apps on the Google Play Store with a total of more than 8 million downloads, which were initially distributed as...

Gaming giant Zynga data breach: 218 million records stolen

By Sudais In the still earlier years of Facebook, around 2009, Farmville was the go-to game for me and thousands of users on Facebook. Built by Zynga, an American game developer, it surely made our lives more fun. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Gaming giant Zynga data...

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...

Zerodium to pay up to $2.5 million for reporting 0-day Android exploits

By Uzair Amir Zero-Day Android exploits are now more valuable then iOS exploits. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Zerodium to pay up to $2.5 million for reporting 0-day Android exploits...

Hostinger Suffers Data Breach – Resets Password For 14 Million Users

Popular web hosting provider Hostinger has been hit by a massive data breach, as a result of which the company has reset passwords for all customers as a precautionary measure. In a blog post published on Sunday, Hostinger revealed that "an unauthorized third party" breached one of its servers an...

Apple will now pay hackers up to $1 million for reporting vulnerabilities

Apple has just updated the rules of its bug bounty program by announcing a few major changes during a briefing at the annual Black Hat security conference yesterday. One of the most attractive updates is… Apple has enormously increased the maximum reward for its bug bounty program from $200,000 t...

Apple will now pay hackers up to $1 million for reporting vulnerabilities

Apple has just updated the rules of its bug bounty program by announcing a few major changes during a briefing at the annual Black Hat security conference yesterday. One of the most attractive updates is… Apple has enormously increased the maximum reward for its bug bounty program from $200,000 t...

Pakistani Man Bribed AT&T Insiders to Plant Malware and Unlock 2 Million Phones

United States federal government has charged a Pakistani national for bribing employees at AT&T telecommunication company over a period of five years to help unlock more than 2 million phones and plant malware on the company's network. Muhammad Fahd, a 34-year-old man from Pakistan, was arrested ...

Good Twitter Samaritans accidentally prevent shoeshine scam

A few days ago, Indian news portals were buzzing with tales of a well-worn shoeshine scam making its way into social media. It’s a great example of how good-natured gestures can unwittingly aid scammers when we combine high-visibility accounts with potential lack of fact checking. Thankfully, it...

What You Should Know About the Equifax Data Breach Settlement

Big-three credit bureau Equifax has reportedly agreed to pay at least $650 million to settle lawsuits stemming from a 2017 breach that let intruders steal personal and financial data on roughly 148 million Americans. Here's a brief primer that attempts to break down what this settlement means for...

Hacker Stole Data of Over 70% Bulgarian Citizens from Tax Agency Servers

Eastern European country Bulgaria has suffered the biggest data breach in its history that compromised personal and financial information of 5 million adult citizens out of its total population of 7 million people. According to multiple sources in local Bulgarian media, an unknown hacker earlier...

Person in Latex Mask Impersonated French Minister

Forget deep fakes. Someone wearing a latex mask fooled people on video calls for a period of two years, successfully scamming 80 million euros from rich French citizens...

Important Flaw in Outlook App for Android Affects Over 100 Millions Users

Update 22 June 2019 — More technical details and proof-of-concept for the OutLook for Android vulnerability has been released that we have covered in a separate article here. Microsoft today released an updated version of its "Outlook for Android" that patches an important security vulnerability ...

Friday Squid Blogging: Hundred-Million-Year-Old Squid Relative Found in Amber

This is a really interesting find. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here...