Security News

Panera Bread Slammed After Keeping Massive Data Leak Quiet For Eight Months
2018-04-03 15:21

Panera is in hot water after sitting on a massive data leak for eight months on its website - and then trying to downplay the amount of customers impacted by the leak.

Panera Bread Data Leak Persisted For Eight Months
2018-04-03 10:13

Database of Customer Information Left Exposed via Unauthenticated API EndpointPanera Bread is warning that information on 10,000 customers has been inadvertently exposed. The data leak, however,...

Probes Begin as Facebook Slammed by Data Leak Blowback
2018-03-20 10:18

CSO Leaves Early, Stock Dives, Outrage AboundsFacebook may be facing the fight of its life. The social media company is seeing mounting pressure and a collective outcry over personal data for...

Facebook Attempts to Explain Data Leak, Denies 'Breach'
2018-03-19 10:33

Political Data-Mining Firm Reportedly Obtained 50 Million Users' Private DetailsFacebook is under fire after reports suggested data-mining firm Cambridge Analytica obtained private information for...

NSA "Red Disk" Data Leak
2017-11-30 12:44

ZDNet is reporting about another data leak, this one from US Army's Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM), which is also within to the NSA. The disk image, when unpacked and loaded, is a...

Chris Vickery on Amazon S3 Data Leaks
2017-09-25 15:15

Mike Mimoso talks to Chris Vickery of Upguard of the recent rash of Amazon S3 data leaks.

Massive Government Data Leak in Sweden (Schneier on Security)
2017-08-24 11:30

Seems to be incompetence rather than malice, but a good example of the dangers of blindly trusting the cloud....

Sweden Rattled by Massive Confidential Data Leak (Security Week)
2017-07-25 22:49

Sweden's minority government was battling to contain the fallout Monday after a massive leak that may have made confidential military information accessible abroad, as well as the private data of...

Google Groups misconfiguration leads to sensitive data leaks (Help Net Security)
2017-07-25 16:56

If your employees are using Google Groups to discuss issues and ideas, you might want to check whether the sharing setting for these groups is set to “Private”. According to RedLock researchers,...

Sweden Grapples with Sensitive Data Leak Scandal (InfoRiskToday)
2017-07-24 13:18

Driver's License Data and Possibly More Was Accessible to Foreign ContractorsSweden is grappling with the fallout from a data breach that occurred two years ago - the scope of which has only...