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27 Dec

#hacking | Fashion rental company HURR Collective exposed user information through misconfigured plugin

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Email addresses were leaked in website’s source code HURR Collective, a UK-based fashion rental company, has notified around 400 users of a data security incident that resulted in their email addresses...
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18 Dec

Protecting programmatic access to user data with Binary Authorization for Borg

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Binary Authorization for Borg, or BAB, is an internal deploy-time enforcement check that reduces insider risk by ensuring that production software and configuration deployed at Google is properly reviewed and authorized,...
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22 Oct

Avast, NordVPN Breaches Tied to Phantom User Accounts — Krebs on Security

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Antivirus and security giant Avast and virtual private networking (VPN) software provider NordVPN each today disclosed months-long network intrusions that — while otherwise unrelated — shared a common cause: Forgotten or...
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18 Oct

Tinder user mortified after potential date asks her to help him rob a bank | #tinder | #pof

Danielle had only downloaded Tinder a day earlier on October 14 when she received the bizarre message. The 19-year-old student, from Houston, Texas, had matched with the promising man and began messaging him on the dating app. But things took...
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3 Apr

540 Million Facebook User Records Found On Unprotected Amazon Servers

It’s been a bad week for Facebook users. First, the social media company was caught asking some of its new users to share passwords for their registered email accounts and now… …the bad week gets worse with a new privacy...
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12 Jul

Malicious Software Packages Found On Arch Linux User Repository

Yet another incident which showcases that you should not explicitly trust user-controlled software repositories. One of the most popular Linux distros Arch Linux has pulled as many as three user-maintained software repository AUR packages after it was found hosting malicious...
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5 Jun

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...
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4 Jun

Facebook Accused of Giving Over 60 Device-Makers Deep Access to User Data

After being embroiled into controversies over its data sharing practices, it turns out that Facebook had granted inappropriate access to its users’ data to more than 60 device makers, including Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Blackberry, and Samsung. According to a lengthy...
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4 Jan

Hundreds of GPS Location Tracking Services Leaving User Data Open to Hackers

Security researchers have unearthed multiple vulnerabilities in hundreds of GPS services that could enable attackers to expose a whole host of sensitive data on millions of online location tracking devices managed by vulnerable GPS services. The series of vulnerabilities discovered...
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26 Dec

Nearly 250,000 User #logins are being #Hacked every #week – #Google #Research

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The internet users are getting subjected to security breaches every moment they are online as suggested by a number of surveys conducted at a global level. May it be credentials like...
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