Security News

Is Your DJI Drone a Chinese Spy? Leaked DHS Memo Suggests
2017-12-04 13:18

The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has recently accused Da-Jiang Innovations (DJI), one of the largest drone manufacturers, of sending sensitive information about U.S....

Bad Rabbit Ransomware Uses Leaked 'EternalRomance' NSA Exploit to Spread
2017-10-27 03:57

A new widespread ransomware worm, known as "Bad Rabbit," that hit over 200 major organisations, primarily in Russia and Ukraine this week leverages a stolen NSA exploit released by the Shadow...

Passwords For 500,000 Car Tracking Devices Leaked Online
2017-09-22 09:33

Another day, another news about a data breach, though this is something disconcerting. Login credentials of more than half a million records belonging to vehicle tracking device company SVR...

Vevo Music Video Service Hacked — 3.12TB of Internal Data Leaked
2017-09-16 02:13

OurMine is in headlines once again—this time for breaching the popular video streaming service Vevo. After hunting down social media accounts of HBO and defacing WikiLeaks website, the infamous...

Details of U.S. 'Top Secret' Clearance Holders Leaked Online (Security Week)
2017-09-05 08:20

The personal details of thousands of individuals who submitted job applications to an international security firm were exposed online due to an unprotected storage server set up by a recruiting...

700 Million-Plus Email Addresses Leaked by Spam Operation (InfoRiskToday)
2017-08-31 13:33

Passwords for Accounts Included With Some AddressesA sloppy spamming operation has exposed on a server in the Netherlands a batch of files that includes more than 700 million email addresses and...

Fappening 2017: More Celebrity Nude Photos Hacked and Leaked Online (The Hackers News)
2017-08-22 09:16

It seems like celebrities have not taken their security seriously, which once again resulted in the leaking of nude and personal photographs of more a-listed celebrities. Dozens of personal and...

Leaked Exploits Fueled Millions of Attacks in Q2: Kaspersky (Security Week)
2017-08-17 17:25

The public availability of new exploit packages has fueled millions of new attacks on popular applications during the second quarter of 2017, a recent report from Kaspersky Lab reveals. read more

Authorities: 4 Insiders Leaked 'Game of Thrones' Episode (InfoRiskToday)
2017-08-17 13:18

Experts Discuss Insider Threat MitigationThe recent online leak of an episode of HBO's Game of Thrones, which has been linked to four insiders at a company that handles data for Star India, has...

Oopss! HBO Itself Accidentally Leaked 'Game of Thrones' Season 7 Episode 6 (The Hackers News)
2017-08-16 09:18

HBO doesn't need hackers to leak its widely watched "Game of Thrones" episodes, as it is sufficient enough to leak them by its own. In what seems to be a terrible blunder, HBO Spain appeared to...