Kidnapping Fraud

Fake kidnapping fraud: "Most commonly we have unsolicited calls to potential victims in Australia, purporting to represent the people in authority in China and suggesting to intending victims here they have been involved in some sort of offence in China or elsewhere, for which they're being held...

Lama - Tool To Obtain A Custom Password Dictionary To A Particular Target

Lama, the application that does not mince words. Description Lama is a GNU Linux tool to generate a word list. The goal is to obtain a custom password dictionary to a particular target, whether physical or moral. It is therefore important that words in this list correspond to the target. Keep in...

Here's How to Download All the Data Apple Collects About You

Apple is making it easier for its users to download their data the company has collected about them so far. On Wednesday, Apple just launched a new Data and Privacy website that allows you to download everything that the company knows about you, from Apple ID info, device info, App Store activity...

CVE-2018-8849

Medtronic N'Vision Clinician Programmer 8840 N'Vision Clinician Programme and 8870 N'Vision removable Application Card do not encrypt PII and PHI while at rest...

Indian Cricket Board Exposes Personal Data of Thousands of Players

By Waqas The IT security researchers at Kromtech Security Center discovered a trove This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Indian Cricket Board Exposes Personal Data of Thousands of Players...

FTC Promotes Privacy Awareness Week

The Federal Trade Commission FTC has released an announcement promoting Privacy Awareness Week PAW May 14–18, 2018. PAW is an annual event fostering awareness of privacy issues and the importance of protecting personal information. This year’s theme, “From Principles to Practice,” focuses on...

Phone Maker BLU Settles with FTC Over Unauthorized User Data Extraction

Android phone-maker BLU Products agreed to a proposed settlement on Tuesday with the Federal Trade Commission, over allegations it allowed the third-party firm Adups Technology to collect detailed consumer data from users without their consent. In an administrative complaint filed earlier this we...

Phishing in the Wild: A New Threat Research Paper

Phishing is an extremely common attack vector that has been used for many years, and the potential impact and risks involved are well known to most Internet users. Despite this, phishing is still a highly relevant attack method being used in the wild, affecting many people. The question is, how c...

Please don’t buy this: smart toys

Smart toys attempt to offer what a lot of us imagined as kids—a toy that we can not only play with, but one that plays back. Many models offer voice recognition, facial expressions, hundreds of words and phrases, reaction to touch and impact, and even the ability to learn and retain new...

Bezop Cryptocurrency Server Spills 25K in Private Investor, Promoter Data

A leaky Mongo database exposed personal information, including scanned passports and driver’s licenses, of 25,000 investors and potential investors tied to the Bezop cryptocurrency, according to researchers. Kromtech Security said that it found the unprotected data on March 30, adding that it...

CVE-2018-6934

CSRF exists in student/personal-info in PHP Scripts Mall Online Tutoring Script 2.0.3...

How to Find Out Everything Facebook Knows About You

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will testify before Congress this week to explain how his company collects and handles users' personal information. The past few weeks have been difficult for Facebook over concerns that the data of millions of users has been breached. Facebook stores details of almos...

Facebook Bolsters Privacy Measures With New Data Access Restrictions

Facebook on Wednesday listed a number of new data access restrictions as the social media company looks to reassure end users that their personal information will remain private. The new measures, detailed in a post by Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer, limit the personal data that apps can collect...

Feds Take On Foreign Hackers, While 880K Orbitz Customers “Likely” Affected by Data Breach

In this edition of Qualys’ infosec news digest, we look at Orbitz’s data breach, AMD’s vulnerabilities controversy, and recent actions by the U.S. government against alleged Russian and Iranian cyber spies. Orbitz was kinda, sorta, maybe hacked Orbitz disclosed last week that personal information...

StartBBS lightweight micro-community system suffers from an overstepping vulnerability

StartBBS Lightweight Micro Community System is an elegant, open source, lightweight community system based on Thinkphp 5.15 & Layui, with its own article system. A vulnerability exists in the "Personal Information Modification" section of StartBBS Lightweight Micro Community System. An attacker c...

Orbitz Warns 880,000 Payment Cards Suspected Stolen

Expedia-owned travel site Orbitz said Tuesday a possible breach of both its consumer and partner platforms may have led to the disclosure of 880,000 payment cards. According to Expedia, criminals had access to Orbitz consumer and business partner platforms, but not the Orbitz.com website. The...

Expedia Orbitz Travel, Flights, Hotel Booking Site Compromised

Chicago-based online travel booking company Orbitz, a subsidiary of Expedia.com, reveals that one of its old websites has been hacked, exposing nearly 880,000 payment card numbers of the people who made purchases online. Orbitz.com is a travel fare aggregator website and travel metasearch engine,...

Walmart Jewelry Partner Exposes Personal Data Of 1.3M Customers

A misconfigured Amazon S3 Simple Storage Service bucket, managed by a Walmart jewelry partner, left personal details and contact information of 1.3 million customers exposed to the public internet. The S3 repository containing a MSSQL database backup belongs to MBM Company, a Chicago, Ill.-based...

Equifax Says 2.4 Million More People Impacted By Massive 2017 Breach

Equifax said that an additional 2.4 million Americans have had their personal data stolen as part of the company’s massive 2017 data breach, including their names and some of their driver’s license information. The additional identified victims bring the total of those implicated in what has beco...

Starbucks: Able to reset other user's password in https://card.starbucks.com.sg/

Description In the website https://card.starbucks.com.sg/ there is a password reset function https://card.starbucks.com.sg/forgetPassword.php that sends the password reset link to the user's email. By using a web proxy to monitor the request, the email address can be changed to allow the attacker...