Security News

Leaked internal docs used to claim "privacy was an afterthought" at Facebook

After two databases were discovered leaking Facebook data, Facebook and Amazon are both pointing fingers - but researchers say the onus lies on all parties involved as data collection continues to grow.

If you have a "private" blog with WordPress.com and are using its official iOS app to create or edit posts and pages, the secret authentication tokens for your admin account might have...

Incident Highlights the Importance of Vendor Risk ManagementA medical software vendor's unsecured fax server leaked patients' medical information, highlighting yet again the importance of vendor...

Chinese e-commerce company Gearbest has failed to properly secure some of its databases, thus leaking users’ personally identifiable information (PII), VPNMentor’s researchers have discovered....

The number of records exposed online by Verification.io email list-cleaning service may be far higher than originally anticipated.

Here's the latest Naked Security podcast - enjoy!

A security researcher has identified an unsecured server that was leaking detailed personal details of nearly half a million Indian citizens... thanks to another MongoDB database instance that...

Why would someone bother to hack a so-called "ultra-secure encrypted database that is being protected behind 13 feet high and 5 feet thick walls," when one can simply fetch a copy of the same data...

And I'm OK with this, says chief of HaveIBeenPwned During its incessant web crawling, Google's search engine constantly encounters credentials dumped by hackers or left exposed by the careless....