Security News

Leak of 4,000 Facebook documents heaps more trouble on internet giant
2019-11-08 11:44

This week’s bold rebrand of Facebook to FACEBOOK can’t hide the growing sense that nobody is happy with the company right now.

Facebook Reveals New Data Leak Incident Involving Groups' Members
2019-11-06 10:19

Facebook today revealed yet another security incident admitting that roughly 100 app developers may have improperly accessed its users' data in certain Facebook groups, including their names and...

Cloud Security: 'Big Data' Leak Prevention Essentials
2019-10-28 18:48

Big data analytics and search tools give organizations the ability to analyze information faster than ever before. But too many organizations deactivate security controls built into Elasticsearch,...

Two Data Leaks Expose Millions of Records
2019-10-28 18:04

Customers of Adobe and Italy's UniCredit Affected in Separate IncidentsTwo new security incidents demonstrate how easily millions of customer records can be exposed. Researchers found an unsecured...

Remember the Democratic National Committee email leak? Same hackers now targeting EU countries, say malware boffins
2019-10-17 13:55

Researchers say they've cracked a Washington embassy and more The hacker crew behind the US Democratic National Committee breach are still at it and have infiltrated an EU country's embassy in...

Hundreds charged in internet's biggest child-abuse swap-shop site bust: IP addy leak led cops to sys-op's home
2019-10-16 20:28

23 kids saved, alleged scumbag-in-chief already in jail US prosecutors say a South Korean man was behind the largest child-abuse image-swapping operation yet found on the internet.…

Unencrypted Mobile Traffic on Tor Network Leaks PII
2019-10-15 21:02

Researchers create digital dossiers of mobile users scraped from Tor network traffic.

FileCloud launches Smart DLP, a real-time data leak prevention solution
2019-10-08 03:15

FileCloud, a cloud-agnostic enterprise file sync and sharing platform, unveiled Smart DLP, an intelligent, rule-driven solution that enables enterprises to prevent data leaks in real time and...

American Man Jailed in US Over Singapore HIV Data Leak
2019-10-01 06:58

An American man who leaked confidential details of thousands of HIV-positive people in Singapore, most of them foreigners, has been jailed in the United States for two years. read more

Why do cloud leaks keep happening? Because no one has a clue how their instances are configured
2019-09-24 12:04

McAfee study finds poor setups, even worse visibility The ongoing rash of data leaks caused by misconfigured clouds is the result of companies having virtually no visibility into how their cloud...