Security News

SEC Investigating Data Leak at First American Financial Corp.
2019-08-12 20:30

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is investigating a security failure on the Web site of real estate title insurance giant First American Financial Corp. that exposed more than 885...

4 Dating Apps Pinpoint Users’ Precise Locations – and Leak the Data
2019-08-12 19:13

Grindr, Romeo, Recon and 3fun were found to expose users' exact locations, just by knowing a user name.

Binance KYC Data Leak — Crypto Exchange Sets $290,000 Bounty On Blackmailer
2019-08-07 11:18

Malta-based cryptocurrency exchange Binance has become a victim of a ransom demand from a scammer who claimed to have hacked the KYC (Know Your Customer) data of thousands of its customers. The...

E3 Website Leaks Private Addresses for Thousands of Journalists
2019-08-05 19:31

Personal data of 2,000 journalists was found publicly accessible on a spreadsheet on the website for popular trade show E3.

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.