Security News

20-Year-Old Man Arrested For Carrying Out Germany's Biggest Data Leak
2019-01-08 17:18

German federal police have arrested a 20-year-old local student for stealing and publishing a massive trove of personal data of hundreds of politicians, journalists and other public figures last...

Linus Torvalds opts for the scream test: Linux kernel syscall tweaked to shut data-leak hole – anyone upset, yell now
2019-01-08 08:03

And he did it without swearing... folks with broken programs may act otherwise The Linux kernel will be tweaked to mitigate data-stealing attacks that exploit system page caches.…

Industry Reactions to Massive Data Leak in Germany
2019-01-07 07:48

The German government revealed last week that information on hundreds of politicians and celebrities was leaked online via Twitter. read more

Massive Data Leak Targets German Officials Including Merkel
2019-01-04 12:30

Hundreds of German politicians, including Chancellor Angela Merkel, have fallen victim to a massive online leak of private data, the government said Friday. "Personal data and documents belonging...

Dual Data Leaks of Blur, Town of Salem Impact Millions
2019-01-03 18:02

Password-manager Blur and role-playing game Town of Salem both disclosed data breaches this week that impacted a combined 10 million.

Data Leak Exposes Psychologists' Home Addresses
2018-12-19 14:48

Leak Has Been Reported to Australia's Data RegulatorA large health insurer in Western Australia shared the home addresses of some psychologists to a web-based appointment booking service,...

Jared, Kay Jewelers Parent Fixes Data Leak
2018-12-03 17:25

The parent firm of bling retailers Jared and Kay Jewelers has fixed a bug in the Web sites of both companies that exposed the order information for all of their online customers.

USPS, Amazon Data Leaks Showcase API Weaknesses
2018-11-26 18:46

The incidents affected millions, just as Black Friday, Cyber Monday and the holiday shopping season kicked off.

New security feature to prevent Amazon S3 bucket misconfiguration and data leaks
2018-11-19 12:36

Hardly a week goes by that we don’t hear about an organization leaving sensitive data exposed on the Internet because they failed to properly configure their Amazon S3 buckets. Amazon Web...

AWS Adds New Feature for Preventing Data Leaks
2018-11-16 18:09

Amazon announced this week that a new feature designed to prevent data leaks has been added to Amazon Web Services (AWS). read more