Security News

KNOB turns up the heat on Bluetooth encryption, hotels leak guest info, city hands $1m to crook, and much, much more
2019-08-19 10:08

Spec design flaw stiffs security of gizmos Roundup Let's run through all the bits and bytes of security news beyond what we've already covered. Also, don't forget our articles from this year's...

Routers from well-known manufacturers vulnerable to cross-router data leaks
2019-08-19 04:45

While many organizations and home networks use a host and guest network on the same router hardware to increase security, a new study by Ben-Gurion University indicates that routers from...

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...