Security News

French company fined 250,000 euros for a data leak
2018-06-12 14:59

CNIL, the French data protection authority, has decided to impose a 250,000 euro fine on Optical Center, a French company selling eye and hearing aids, because it failed to secure the data of...

DNA Testing Service MyHeritage Leaks User Data of 92 Million Customers
2018-06-05 21:12

An unspecified "private" server was found with the account data of users who signed up for the service, in the largest breach since Equifax last year.

TeenSafe phone monitoring app leaks teens’ iCloud logins in plaintext
2018-05-22 14:44

The "secure" monitoring app is used by over a million parents.

CIA’s “Vault 7” mega-leak was an inside job, claims FBI
2018-05-17 11:46

The suspect worked for a CIA group that designed hacking tools at the time the cyber-spying arsenal was given to WikiLeaks.

Ex-CIA Employee Suspected in WikiLeaks 'Vault7' Leak
2018-05-16 09:59

A former employee of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is believed to have provided WikiLeaks the files made public by the whistleblower organization as part of its ‘Vault 7’ leak, which...

Ex-CIA man fingered as prime suspect in Vault 7 spy tool manuals leak
2018-05-15 22:56

Report claims former intel worker believed to be behind data dump A former CIA employee has been named as the prime suspect behind last year's leak of thousands of top-secret documents on the...

Ex-CIA man named as suspect in Vault 7 leak
2018-05-15 22:56

Report claims former intel worker behind data dump A former CIA employee has been named as the prime suspect in last year's dump of thousands of documents on the agency's hacking practices.…

PGP and S/MIME decryptors can leak plaintext from emails, says infosec Professor
2018-05-14 06:46

Users advised to stop using and/or uninstall plugins ASAP to stop Pretty Grievous P0wnage A professor of Computer Security at the Münster University of Applied Sciences‏ has warned that popular...

PDF Files Can Silently Leak NTLM Credentials
2018-04-30 12:19

NTML credentials can be stolen via malicious Portable Document Format (PDF) files without any user interaction, Check Point security researchers warn. read more

Western Digital My Cloud EX2 NAS Device Leaks Files
2018-04-25 20:42

Default configuration of WD’s My Cloud storage device keeps port open for unprivileged data exfiltration within a network.