Security News

Shadow Brokers Leaks Another Windows Hacking Tool Stolen from NSA’s Arsenal (The Hackers News)
2017-09-08 00:56

The Shadow Brokers, a notorious hacking group that leaked several hacking tools from the NSA, is once again making headlines for releasing another NSA exploit—but only to its "monthly dump...

Military Contractor’s Vendor Leaks Resumes in Misconfigured AWS S3 (Threatpost)
2017-09-05 16:16

Thousands of resumes and job applications from U.S. military veterans, law enforcement, and others were leaked by a recruiting vendor in an unsecured AWS S3 bucket.

Telnet Credential Leak Reinforces Bleak State of IoT Security (Threatpost)
2017-08-29 15:22

The disclosure and recent analysis of thousands of leaked telnet credentials paints a bleak picture of the state of IoT security.

Leak of >1,700 valid passwords could make the IoT mess much worse (ArsTechnica)
2017-08-25 19:40

List of unsecured devices lived in obscurity since June. Now, it's going mainstream.

Massive Government Data Leak in Sweden (Schneier on Security)
2017-08-24 11:30

Seems to be incompetence rather than malice, but a good example of the dangers of blindly trusting the cloud....

Russia-Linked Hackers Leak Football Doping Files (Security Week)
2017-08-23 12:55

A group of hackers believed to be operating out of Russia has leaked emails and medical records related to football (soccer) players who used illegal substances. read more

New Snowden Leak Exposes NSA's Spying Hub in Australia (The Hackers News)
2017-08-20 10:00

The new documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden has exposed a United States secretive facility located near a remote town in Australia's Northern Territory for covertly monitoring...

HBO Offered Hackers $250,000 As Ransom to Prevent More Leaks (The Hackers News)
2017-08-12 06:26

Hackers who recently hacked into HBO network and stole scripts, shows, and employee information documents, have now provided an email in which the United States cable channel offered them...

HBO hackers demand money, leak more stolen data and GoT scripts (Help Net Security)
2017-08-08 19:54

The hackers who’ve breached HBO and supposedly made off with 1.5TB of the company’s data have released a second data dump. According to the Associated Press and Dissent Doe (at DataBreaches.net),...

Engineering Firm Leaks Sensitive Data on Dell, SBC and Oracle (Threatpost)
2017-08-08 18:08

Power Quality Engineering publicly exposed sensitive electrical infrastructure data on the public internet tied to Dell Technologies, SBC, Freescale, Oracle, Texas Instruments and the City of Austin.