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EFF Talks the Corporate Surveillance of Consumers
You can’t protect your privacy if you don’t know how it’s being violated. That’s the essence of a report by the Electronic Frontier Foundation that shines a bright disinfecting light on how corporations are collecting data on consumers. Think Facebook-like data collection on steroids and you begi...
Avast and AVG Browser Extensions Spying On Chrome and Firefox Users
If your Firefox or Chrome browser has any of the below-listed four extensions offered by Avast and its subsidiary AVG installed, you should disable or remove them as soon as possible. Avast Online Security AVG Online Security Avast SafePrice AVG SafePrice Why? Because these four widely installed...
OnePlus Suffers New Data Breach Impacting Its Online Store Customers
Chinese smartphone maker OnePlus has suffered a new data breach exposing personal and order information of an undisclosed number of its customers, likely, as a result of a vulnerability in its online store website. The breach came to light after OnePlus started informing affected customers via...
Online Phishing: How to Stay Out of the Hackers’ Nets
Despite the growing popularity of social media and messaging apps, email remains the preferred way to communicate online for millions of Americans. And the bad guys know it. Of the 28.6 billion cyber-threats Trend Micro blocked globally in the first half of 2019, over 24.3 billion were carried by...
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...
News Wrap: Voice Assistant Laser Hack, Twitter Insider Threats, Data Breach Fine Fails
Threatpost editors break down the top news stories for the week ended Nov. 8. The hot stories of the week include: Despite trillions of dollars in data-breach fine payouts, each year the number of compromised companies and individuals with private data exposed rise – a Threatpost feature looks at...
Instagram clamps down on fake messages with anti-phishing tool
Instagram accounts will always be a popular target for scammers. You might not think it’s a big deal if someone has their account swiped, but it’s often the vanguard of many online businesses. A takeover, or a deletion, can be absolutely devastating. Smart hacking crews are always in the...
CVE-2019-14808
An issue was discovered in the RENPHO application 3.0.0 for iOS. It transmits JSON data unencrypted to a server without an integrity check, if a user changes personal data in his profile tab e.g., exposure of his birthday or logs into his account i.e., exposure of credentials...
Code injection
An issue was discovered in the RENPHO application 3.0.0 for iOS. It transmits JSON data unencrypted to a server without an integrity check, if a user changes personal data in his profile tab e.g., exposure of his birthday or logs into his account i.e., exposure of credentials...
A pervert Yahoo employee hacked 6,000 accounts using internal system
By Waqas A former Yahoo engineer hacked 6,000 Yahoo Mail account to extract the personal information of victims primarily sexual images and videos. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: A pervert Yahoo employee hacked 6,000 accounts using internal system...
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...
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...
Understanding CCPA: It's Time to Action a Plan for Compliance
Notice to all procrastinators: The final countdown to the California Consumer Privacy Act CCPA has begun. On January 1, 2020, companies or organizations that do business in California will be required to comply with the state's strict new privacy legislation that establishes a legal and enforceab...
Windows NTFS Privileged File Access Enumeration Vulnerability
NTFS is a proprietary journaling file system developed by Microsoft. Windows NTFS suffers from a privileged file access enumeration vulnerability that could be exploited by an attacker with user rights to gather intelligence or personal data...
Data Leak Impacts Millions of Yves Rocher Cosmetics Company Customers
UPDATE Cosmetics giant Yves Rocher is warning that a giant data leak exposed the personal data of millions of its customers and reams of sensitive internal company information to the public. The data exposure stems from a database left unprotected by a third-party consultant to the firm...
ntp:fuzz_ntpd_receive: Use-of-uninitialized-value in receive
Detailed Report: https://oss-fuzz.com/testcase?key=5684730627883008 Project: ntp Fuzzing Engine: libFuzzer Fuzz Target: fuzzntpdreceive Job Type: libfuzzermsanntp Platform Id: linux Crash Type: Use-of-uninitialized-value Crash Address: Crash State: receive fuzzntpdreceive.c fuzzntpdreceive.c...
Hostinger Data Breach: 14M Customer Passwords, Personal Data at Risk
Web hosting company Hostinger is warning that a breach of one of its servers potentially gave bad actors access to the hashed passwords and personal data of more than 14 million customers. Hostinger, a popular web, cloud and virtual private server hosting provider and domain registrar with 29...
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...
