FTC Releases Data Breach Recovery and Prevention Video

The Federal Trade Commission FTC has released a step-by-step video to users whose personal information may have been exposed in a data breach. This video provides instruction on how to report an incident and develop a personal recovery plan after a data breach has occurred. US-CERT encourages use...

FBI Director — You Should Cover Your Webcam With Tape

Should you put a tape or a sticker over the lens of your laptop's webcam? Yes, even Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and FBI Director James Comey do that. Covering your laptop's webcam might be a hell cheap and good idea to guard against hackers and intruders who might want to watch your private life...

FBI Arrests Two Hackers Who Hacked US Spy Chief, FBI and CIA Director

US authorities have arrested two North Carolina men on charges that they were part of the notorious hacking group "Crackas With Attitude." Crackas with Attitude is the group of hackers who allegedly was behind a series of audacious and embarrassing hacks that targeted personal email accounts of...

FTC Releases Alert on Securing Personal Information When Using Rental Vehicles

The Federal Trade Commission FTC has released recommendations for consumers to protect their personal data when using rental vehicles. Rental vehicles may contain infotainment systems that can connect with personal devices to stream music, allow hands-free calls and texts, or guide navigation...

Instacart: Fetch private list metadata and any user's personal name

Overview == When a user creates a list, they can choose whether to make the list visible in search and whether to show their name with the list. The problem is that the attacker can still access the information that the user chose to hide. Furthermore, if the attacker gets hold of a user's ID, th...

Omegle, the Popular 'Chat with Strangers' Service Leaks Your Dirty Chats and Personal Info

Ever since the creation of online chat rooms and then social networking, people have changed the way they interact with their friends and associates. However, when it comes to anonymous chatting services, you don't even know what kinds of individuals you are dealing with. Sharing identifiable...

Guccifer 2.0 Leaks Personal Info of Nearly 200 Congressional Democrats

The hacker, who recently claimed responsibility for the high-profile hack of Democratic National Committee DNC, has now taken credit for hacking into the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee DCCC as well. To prove his claims, the hacker, going by the moniker Guccifer 2.0, dumped on Friday...

France warns Microsoft to Stop Collecting Windows 10 Users' Personal Data

We have heard a lot about privacy concerns surrounding Windows 10 and accusations on Microsoft of collecting too much data about users without their consent. Now, the French data protection authority has ordered Microsoft to stop it. France's National Data Protection Commission CNIL issued a form...

CVE-2016-0321

IBM Personal Communications aka PCOMM 6.x before 6.0.17 and 12.x before 12.0.0.1 does not properly restrict credential extraction, which allows local users to discover passwords by leveraging access to the victim account and executing a PowerShell script...

Design/Logic Flaw

IBM Personal Communications aka PCOMM 6.x before 6.0.17 and 12.x before 12.0.0.1 does not properly restrict credential extraction, which allows local users to discover passwords by leveraging access to the victim account and executing a PowerShell script...

Hackers Can Steal Your ATM PIN from Your Smartwatch Or Fitness Tracker

As your day-to-day apparel and accessories are turning into networked mobile electronic devices that attach to your body like smartwatch or fitness band, the threat to our personal data these devices collect has risen exponentially. A recent study from Binghamton University also suggests your...

The vulnerability of the Firefox browser allows a hacker to obtain confidential information about the device and PIN code.

The vulnerability of the Firefox browser improperly restricts access to JavaScript for data related to movement. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a remote attacker to obtain confidential device information and the PIN code through a specially crafted web page...

Voter Database Leak Exposes 154 Million Sensitive Records

White hat hacker Chris Vickery uncovered a database of 154 million U.S. voter profiles on an unprotected server chockfull of sensitive data that includes voter names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, gun ownership information, preferences on gay marriage and links to individual social...

CG-WLR300GNV Series does not limit authentication attempts

Overview CG-WLR300GNV and CG-WLR300GNV-W provided by Corega Inc are wireless LAN routers. The WPS functionality in CG-WLR300GNV Series does not limit PIN authentication attempts, making it susceptible to brute force attacks. Takeshi Okamoto of Kanagawa Institute of Technology and Takaaki Minegish...

Radiant CMS 1.1.3 Cross Site Scripting

Exploit Title: Radiant CMS 1.1.3 - Mutiple Persistant XSS Vulnerabilities Exploit Author: David Silveiro Exploit Author Github: github.com/davidsilveiro Exploit Author Twitter: twitter.com/davidsilveiro Vendor Homepage: http://radiantcms.org/ Software Link: http://radiantcms.org/download/ Date:...

Radiant CMS 1.1.3 - Multiple Persistent Cross-Site Scripting

Exploit for ruby platform in category web applications Exploit Title: Radiant CMS 1.1.3 - Mutiple Persistant XSS Vulnerabilities Exploit Author: David Silveiro Exploit Author Github: github.com/davidsilveiro Exploit Author Twitter: twitter.com/davidsilveiro Vendor Homepage: http://radiantcms.org/...

Instacart: Authentication Bypass in Updating Personal Information

Hello Instacart, Firstly, I would like to remind you that I made this report by mail 2 days ago, Sat, 16-08-2016 before I got the invite here. Although a user is expected to input password before updating their personal information. This is not so anyway as I have found that one could actually...

IBM Personal Communications Unauthorized Access Vulnerability

IBM Personal Communications is the United States IBM dedicated to Microsoft Windows host communications and terminal emulation software package, which provides virtual terminal VT emulation, system network architecture SNA and other functions. An unauthorized access vulnerability exists in IBM...

Breached Credentials Used to Access Github Repositories

Github is forcing a password reset on some of its users after it detected a number of successful intrusions into its repositories using credentials compromised in other breaches. “This appears to be the result of an attacker using lists of email addresses and passwords from other online services...

Github accounts Hacked in 'Password reuse attack'

Popular code repository site GitHub is warning that a number of users' accounts have been compromised by unknown hackers reusing email addresses and passwords obtained from other recent data breaches. Yes, GitHub has become the latest target of a password reuse attack after Facebook CEO Mark...