Security News

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.

There’s no virus in the iTunes database – it’s a phish! (Help Net Security)
2016-06-21 13:00

A new phishing campaign aimed at Apple users has been spotted by security researcher Bryan Campbell. It takes the form of a fake email supposedly sent by Apple Service, claiming that a “virus” has...