Security News

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.

Hackers Threaten 'Game of Thrones' Episode Leaks (InfoRiskToday)
2017-08-01 14:18

HBO Confirms Breach as Attackers Leak Programming and Personal InformationHackers have struck Hollywood again, claiming HBO as their latest victim. So far, some unaired programming has been leaked...

HBO hacked, attackers leak GoT script and some episodes (Help Net Security)
2017-08-01 13:13

HBO has become hackers’ latest entertainment industry target: attackers have breached the company’s servers, and they claim to have syphoned from them 1.5 terabytes of data. The extent of the...

Hacker Leaks Data From Mandiant (FireEye) Senior Security Analyst (The Hackers News)
2017-07-31 04:50

Reportedly, at least one senior cyber security analyst working with Mandiant, a Virginia-based cybersecurity firm owned by the FireEye, appears to have had its system compromised by hackers,...

Sweden Rattled by Massive Confidential Data Leak (Security Week)
2017-07-25 22:49

Sweden's minority government was battling to contain the fallout Monday after a massive leak that may have made confidential military information accessible abroad, as well as the private data of...

Google Groups misconfiguration leads to sensitive data leaks (Help Net Security)
2017-07-25 16:56

If your employees are using Google Groups to discuss issues and ideas, you might want to check whether the sharing setting for these groups is set to “Private”. According to RedLock researchers,...

Sweden Grapples with Sensitive Data Leak Scandal (InfoRiskToday)
2017-07-24 13:18

Driver's License Data and Possibly More Was Accessible to Foreign ContractorsSweden is grappling with the fallout from a data breach that occurred two years ago - the scope of which has only...

Sweden Accidentally Leaks Personal Details of Nearly All Citizens (The Hackers News)
2017-07-24 05:03

Another day, Another data breach! This time sensitive and personal data of millions of transporters in Sweden, along with the nation's military secrets, have been exposed, putting every...