Security News

JIRA Misconfiguration Leaks Data of Fortune 500 Companies
2019-08-05 15:59

A misconfiguration in the popular JIRA project management software exposed a great deal of data on hundreds of companies, security researcher Avinash Jain reveals. read more

LenovoEMC Storage Gear Leaks Sensitive Financial Data
2019-07-16 19:59

Lenovo patches enterprise and SMB network attached storage devices for a vulnerability that leaked data to the public internet.

Bulgaria Probes Russia-Linked Leak of Taxpayer Data
2019-07-16 15:19

Bulgaria ordered Tuesday a probe into the leak of a trove of taxpayer data in a Russia-linked cyberattack that was disclosed on the same day the former Soviet satellite nation moved to buy US-made...

Leak Confirms Google Speakers Often Record Without Warning
2019-07-12 12:18

The Cost of 'Smart Home AI Assistants': Humans Review Audio of What People SayGeorge Orwell's "1984" posited a world in which Big Brother monitored us constantly via "telescreens." But thanks to...

Mystery of NSA Leak Lingers as Stolen Document Case Winds Up
2019-07-08 04:41

Federal agents descended on the suburban Maryland house with the flash and bang of a stun grenade, blocked off the street and spent hours questioning the homeowner about a theft of government...

MongoDB Leak Exposed Millions of Medical Insurance Records
2019-06-28 19:52

Millions of records containing personal information and medical insurance data were exposed by a database belonging to insurance marketing website MedicareSupplement.com.

Ex-Senate Aide Sentenced to 4 Years in Prison for Data Leak
2019-06-24 05:15

A former congressional staffer was sentenced to four years in prison Wednesday after pleading guilty to illegally posting online the home addresses and telephone numbers of five Republican...

RAMBleed picks up Rowhammer, smashes DRAM until it leaks apps' crypto-keys, passwords, other secrets
2019-06-11 22:26

Boffins blast boards to boost bits Bit boffins from Australia, Austria, and the US have expanded upon the Rowhammer memory attack technique to create more dangerous variation called RAMBleed that...

JavaScript tells all, which turns out not to be so great for privacy: Side-channel leaks can be exploited to follow you around the interweb
2019-06-11 08:58

And using browser privacy extensions may just make matters worse Boffins from Graz University of Technology in Austria have devised an automated system for browser profiling using two new side...

New Zealand Says Budget Leak Was Bungled, Not Hacked
2019-05-30 09:30

A security breach that led to the premature release of New Zealand's budget resulted from an online bungle, not a sophisticated cyberattack as originally claimed, red-faced officials admitted...