Security News

Mail.ru, Funcom gaming forums hacked, user databases stolen (Help Net Security)
2016-08-25 17:14

Vulnerabilities in older versions of the popular vBulletin Internet forum software are being exploited left and right, and data of millions of forum users is being pilfered every day. According to...

World-Check crime and terror database exposed online (Help Net Security)
2016-06-29 19:54

Security researcher Chris Vickery, who has become well-known for unearthing databases that should not be accessible via the Internet but are, has found another one that contains old data from...

Crowdsourcing a Database of Hotel Rooms (Schneier on Security)
2016-06-27 11:05

There's an app that allows people to submit photographs of hotel rooms around the world into a centralized database. The idea is that photographs of victims of human trafficking are often taken in...

Voter Database Leak Exposes 154 Million Sensitive Records (Threatpost)
2016-06-24 14:14

A voter database found by a white hat hacker included gun ownership, preferences on gay marriage and linked to individual social media accounts.