Security News

Canadian Man Charged Over Leak of Three Billion Hacked Accounts
2018-01-16 03:29

An Ontario man made his first court appearance Monday to answer charges of running a website that collected personal and password data from some three billion accounts, and sold them for profit. read more

Hackers Leak Olympic Committee Emails in Response to Russia Ban
2018-01-11 12:31

A group of hackers linked to Russia has leaked several emails apparently exchanged between officials of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and other individuals involved with the Olympics....

NSA Contractor Pleads Guilty in Embarrassing Leak Case
2018-01-07 15:47

A former contractor for the US National Security Agency's elite hacking group has agreed to plead guilty to removing classified documents in a case that highlighted a series of disastrous leaks of...

Internet-connected Sonos Speakers Leak User Information
2018-01-02 19:05

A vulnerability found in Internet-connected Sonos Play:1 speakers can be abused to access information on users, Trend Micro has discovered. read more

Microsoft Says ERP Product Private Key Leak Posed Little Risk
2017-12-11 10:48

It took Microsoft more than 100 days to address a problem related to the use of the same digital certificate for all installations of its Dynamics 365 enterprise resource planning (ERP) product,...

NSA "Red Disk" Data Leak
2017-11-30 12:44

ZDNet is reporting about another data leak, this one from US Army's Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM), which is also within to the NSA. The disk image, when unpacked and loaded, is a...

Sites using session replay scripts leak sensitive user data
2017-11-20 21:36

When we enter sensitive information – our names, passwords, payment card information, medical information, what have you – into websites, we do it with the expectation that it will be kept...

Kaspersky Blames NSA Analyst For U.S. Intel Leak
2017-11-17 14:18

Anti-virus Vendor Says It Collected, Then Deleted Four Classified DocumentsKaspersky Lab says it "inadvertently" scooped up classified U.S. documents and code from an NSA analyst's home computer,...

Tor Browser flaw leaks users’ real IP address
2017-11-06 16:53

The Tor Project has issued an emergency security bugfix release of Tor Browser, to prevent user IP address leakage due to a still unpatched Firefox bug. The bug is present only in the macOS and...

Warning: Critical Tor Browser Vulnerability Leaks Users’ Real IP Address—Update Now
2017-11-04 01:16

If you follow us on Twitter, you must be aware that since yesterday we have been warning Mac and Linux users of the Tor anonymity browser about a critical vulnerability that could leak their real...