Security News

Elsevier exposes users’ emails and passwords online
2019-03-20 11:40

The science publisher is blaming a misconfigured server that exposed a constant stream of its users’ credentials.

Court: Embarrassing leaks of internal Facebook emails are fishy
2019-03-19 11:50

The leaks point to a plot, a Calif. court said, ordering pikini app maker Six4Three to hand over its lawyers' chats with the ICO.

“FINAL WARNING” email – have they really hacked your webcam?
2019-03-13 12:01

In the last 24 hours, SophosLabs received 1,700 samples of just one new sextortion campaign. Good news? It's all a pack of lies. Don't reply. Don't engage.

Email list-cleaning site may have leaked up to 2 billion records
2019-03-12 12:10

The number of records exposed online by Verification.io email list-cleaning service may be far higher than originally anticipated.

The Role of AI, Machine Learning in Email Security
2019-03-11 17:03

Adrien Gendre of Vade Secure on Infrastructure ProtectionMachine learning models and artificial intelligence are transforming the way email is secured, says Adrien Gendre of Vade Secure.

Unprotected MongoDB Instance Exposes 800 Million Emails
2019-03-10 16:34

An unprotected MongoDB database was recently found exposing over 800 million records, including email addresses and phone numbers.  Discovered on February 25 by security researcher Bob Diachenko,...

An email marketing company left 809 million records exposed online
2019-03-09 18:36

150GB database included mortgage amounts, info on credit ratings.

That marketing email database that exposed 809 million contact records? Maybe make that two-plus BILLION
2019-03-08 21:45

'This is a gigantic amalgamation of data all in one place' expert tells El Reg An unprotected MongDB database belonging to a marketing tech company exposed up to 809 million email addresses, phone...

Iranian hackers ransack Citrix, make off with 6TB+ of emails, biz docs, internal secrets
2019-03-08 19:11

Remote-desktop giant 'among more than 200 govt agencies, oil, gas, tech corps' hit by cyber-gang Updated Citrix today warned its customers that foreign hackers romped through its internal company...

TalkTalk kept my email account active for 8 years after I left – now it's spamming my mates
2019-03-07 09:10

But ISP won't nuke nuisance without proof of ID TalkTalk has refused to delete a former customer's email address which was taken over by spammers – because the unfortunate person cancelled their...