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Brit founder of Windows leaks website Buildfeed and infosec bod spared jail for hacking Microsoft
2019-03-29 18:20

26 and 24-year-olds slapped with suspended sentences, community work orders The Brit who ran the BuildFeed website of Windows leaks has been handed a suspended prison sentence – along with a...

61% of CIOs believe employees leak data maliciously
2019-03-27 06:00

There is a perception gap between IT leaders and employees over the likelihood of insider breaches. It is a major challenge for businesses: insider data breaches are viewed as frequent and...

Guilty by association: The reality of online retail third-party data leaks
2019-03-26 06:30

Online retail activity continues to accelerate at a rampant pace and shows no signs of slowing down. According to the National Retail Federation (NRF), U.S. retail sales are expected to rise...

Why 61% of CIOs believe employees maliciously leak data
2019-03-25 13:35

One in five employees surveyed believes data belongs to them, not the company, according to an Opinion Matters / Egress report.

Gearbest Database Leaks 1.5 Million Customer Records
2019-03-19 13:48

White Hat Hackers Expose Lax Security Practices at Chinese Online RetailerAn unprotected database belonging to Chinese e-commerce site Gearbest exposed 1.5 million customer records, including...

Court: Embarrassing leaks of internal Facebook emails are fishy
2019-03-19 11:50

The leaks point to a plot, a Calif. court said, ordering pikini app maker Six4Three to hand over its lawyers' chats with the ICO.

Misconfigured Box accounts leak terabytes of companies’ sensitive data
2019-03-13 12:29

Easily guessable URLs led to what should have been big companies' very private data. Even Box itself was found to be exposing folders.

Box Enterprise Shared Links Leak Sensitive Information
2019-03-12 14:31

Box enterprise shared links can leak sensitive information if access to them hasn’t been restricted to relevant users only, Adversis security researchers warn. read more

Smart Ski Helmet Headphone Flaws Leak Personal, GPS Data
2019-03-04 19:41

A rash of security flaws in the Outdoor Tech CHIPS smart headphones, which fit in ski helmets, allow bad actors to collect data like emails, passwords, GPS location - and even listen to...

Blocking compromised passwords from the Collection leak
2019-02-25 06:30

It all started with Collection #1, a monster breach dubbed as the biggest data dump in history with its 773 million unique email addresses, and 22 million unique passwords. The exposed data was a...