Security News

Cathay Pacific Hit by Data Leak Affecting 9.4M Passengers
2018-10-24 19:59

Hong Kong flag carrier Cathay Pacific said Wednesday it had suffered a major data leak affecting up to 9.4 million passengers. The airline admitted data including passport numbers, identity card...

Morrisons supermarket: We're taking payroll leak liability fight to UK Supreme Court
2018-10-23 10:31

Brit grocer says it shouldn't be held responsible for criminal actions of worker Morrisons has vowed to take its hack liability fight to the UK Supreme Court after failing to convince Court of...

Alphabet in the soup for keeping quiet about Google+ data leak bug
2018-10-16 20:10

Investors sue over failure to 'fess up in financial filings Google's parent has been hit with a lawsuit for failing to disclose to investors a bug – secretly fixed in March – that could have...

Dating app for Trump loners commits YUGE blunder: It leaks more than the West Wing
2018-10-15 22:46

Donald Daters application more insecure than the president A much-hyped dating site for Donald Trump supporters in the US is being blasted for shoddy security that may have exposed all of its...

An Assessment of Google's Data Leak
2018-10-12 11:48

An in-depth report on the exposure of personal details for 500,00 Google+ accounts leads the latest edition of the ISMG Security Report. Also featured: an update on mitigating the risk of business...

Google now minus Google Plus: Social mini-network faces axe in data leak bug drama
2018-10-08 22:22

Project Zero would have been all over this – yet it remained under wraps Google has surprised Google+ users – all two of them – by shuttering the service over the next ten months in the wake of a...

Telegram Leaks User IP Addresses
2018-10-01 12:51

A vulnerability in Telegram Desktop results in the end-user public and private IP addresses being leaked during a call, a security researcher has discovered. read more

Telegram Calling Feature Leaks Your IP Addresses—Patch Released
2018-10-01 09:03

The desktop version of the security and privacy-focused, end-to-end encrypted messaging app, Telegram, has been found leaking both users' private and public IP addresses by default during voice...

Vulnerabilities in PureVPN Client Leak User Credentials
2018-09-28 17:54

The PureVPN client for Windows is impacted by two vulnerabilities that result in user credential leak, a Trustwave security researcher has discovered. read more

Ex-NSA Hacker Sentenced to Jail Over Kaspersky Leak
2018-09-25 23:26

A former National Security Agency hacker whose leak of extremely top secret online spying materials led to the US government ban on Kaspersky software was sentenced to 66 months in prison Tuesday....