Security News

EU Recalls Children’s Smartwatch That Leaks Location Data
2019-02-05 15:15

The children's smartwatch allows bad actors to track their location and communicate with them, according to the alert.

Singapore fingers deported fraudster for leak of list of thousands of HIV+ people
2019-01-29 13:20

Accuses suspect of other stuff too, such as faking HIV status to get a work permit. Wait, what? The government of Singapore is once again apologising for a serious breach of citizens' privacy:...

Data Leak in Ghostscript Could Allow Command Execution
2019-01-25 15:19

Data leak vulnerabilities in Ghostscript could allow an attacker to take over a routine and even execute commands on systems, Google Project Zero researcher Tavis Ormandy has discovered.  read more

Portuguese Hacker Linked to 'Football Leaks' Held in Hungary
2019-01-18 06:07

A Portuguese hacker said by his lawyers to have played a pivotal role in the Football Leaks whistleblower website was fighting extradition from Hungary to Portugal on Thursday on charges of...

Misconfigured Server Leaks Oklahoma Department of Securities Data
2019-01-17 17:02

A storage server configured for public access was found to expose terabytes of data belonging to the Oklahoma Department of Securities, UpGuard reveals. read more

Data Exposed in OXO, Amazon and MongoDB Leaks
2019-01-14 14:18

Dual data exposures and a wide-scale data leak due to a vulnerable MongoDB database have kicked off 2019 so far.

Germany's Mega-Leak Takeaway: Noisy Young Hacker Got Caught
2019-01-10 14:18

But Quiet Nation-State Hackers and Cybercrime Gangs Can Exploit the Same FlawsPolice in Germany say a 20-year-old student has confessed to stealing and leaking personal details from 1,000 German...

German Police Identify Suspect Behind Massive Data Leak
2019-01-09 13:48

Anger at Politicians and Public Figures Allegedly Motivated 20-Year-Old SuspectGerman police arrested a 20-year-old student - living at home with his parents - who they say confessed to leaking...

20-Year-Old Man Arrested For Carrying Out Germany's Biggest Data Leak
2019-01-08 17:18

German federal police have arrested a 20-year-old local student for stealing and publishing a massive trove of personal data of hundreds of politicians, journalists and other public figures last...

Linus Torvalds opts for the scream test: Linux kernel syscall tweaked to shut data-leak hole – anyone upset, yell now
2019-01-08 08:03

And he did it without swearing... folks with broken programs may act otherwise The Linux kernel will be tweaked to mitigate data-stealing attacks that exploit system page caches.…