Security News

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...

Largest US voter data leak shines light on many problems (Help Net Security)
2017-06-21 18:44

If US citizens weren’t convinced by now that they have long lost control of their data, the fact is more than obvious after a misconfigured database containing 198 million US voters was found...

Telepresence Robots Patched Against Data Leaks (Threatpost)
2017-03-13 15:59

Double Robotics telepresence robots were patched against vulnerabilities that leaked device data and session keys and tokens.