A team of security researchers has claims to have found a publicly-accessible database that exposes information on more than 80 million U.S. households—nearly 65 percent of the total number of American households.Discovered by VPNMentor's research team lead by hacktivists Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, the unsecured database includes 24GB of extremely detailed information about … [Read more...] about Unprotected Database Exposes Personal Info of 80 Million American Households
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Docker Hub Suffers a Data Breach, Asks Users to Reset Password
Docker Hub, one of the largest cloud-based library of Docker container images, has suffered a data breach after an unknown attacker gained access to the company's single Hub database.Docker Hub is an online repository service where users and partners can create, test, store and distribute Docker container images, both publicly and privately. The breach reportedly exposed … [Read more...] about Docker Hub Suffers a Data Breach, Asks Users to Reset Password
New York, Canada, Ireland Launch New Investigations Into Facebook Privacy Breaches
Facebook has a lot of problems, then there are a lot of problems for Facebook—and both are not going to end anytime sooner.Though Facebook has already set aside $5 billion from its revenue to cover a possible fine the company is expecting as a result of an FTC investigation over privacy violations, it seems to be just first installment of what Facebook has to pay for … [Read more...] about New York, Canada, Ireland Launch New Investigations Into Facebook Privacy Breaches
Critical Unpatched Flaw Disclosed in WordPress WooCommerce Extension
If you own an eCommerce website built on WordPress and powered by WooCommerce plugin, then beware of a new, unpatched vulnerability that has been made public and could allow attackers to compromise your online store.A WordPress security company—called "Plugin Vulnerabilities"—that recently gone rogue in order to protest against moderators of the WordPress’s official support … [Read more...] about Critical Unpatched Flaw Disclosed in WordPress WooCommerce Extension
‘Highly Critical’ Unpatched Zero-Day Flaw Discovered In Oracle WebLogic
A team of cybersecurity researchers today published a post warning enterprises of an unpatched, highly critical zero-day vulnerability in Oracle WebLogic server application that some attackers might have already started exploiting in the wild.Oracle WebLogic is a scalable, Java-based multi-tier enterprise application server that allows businesses to quickly deploy new products … [Read more...] about ‘Highly Critical’ Unpatched Zero-Day Flaw Discovered In Oracle WebLogic
Facebook Could Be Fined Up To $5 Billion Over Privacy Violations
Facebook expects to face a massive fine of up to $5 billion from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) as the result of an investigation into its privacy policies—that's about one month's revenue for the social media giant.To be clear the amount of fine is not what the FTC has announced or hinted yet; instead, it's an estimated due that Facebook disclosed on Wednesday in its first … [Read more...] about Facebook Could Be Fined Up To $5 Billion Over Privacy Violations
‘Karkoff’ Is the New ‘DNSpionage’ With Selective Targeting Strategy
The cybercriminal group behind the infamous DNSpionage malware campaign has been found running a new sophisticated operation that infects selected victims with a new variant of the DNSpionage malware.First uncovered in November last year, the DNSpionage attacks used compromised sites and crafted malicious documents to infect victims' computers with DNSpionage—a custom remote … [Read more...] about ‘Karkoff’ Is the New ‘DNSpionage’ With Selective Targeting Strategy
Hacker Breaks Into French Government’s New Secure Messaging App
A white-hat hacker found a way to get into the French government's newly launched, secure encrypted messaging app that otherwise can only be accessed by officials and politicians with email accounts associated with the government identities.Dubbed "Tchap," the end-to-end encrypted, open source messaging app has been created by the French government with an aim to keep their … [Read more...] about Hacker Breaks Into French Government’s New Secure Messaging App
Facebook Stored Millions of Instagram Users’ Passwords in Plaintext
Facebook late last month revealed that the social media company mistakenly stored passwords for "hundreds of millions" of Facebook users in plaintext, including "tens of thousands" passwords of its Instagram users as well.Now it appears that the incident is far worse than first reported. Facebook today quietly updated its March press release, adding that the actual number of … [Read more...] about Facebook Stored Millions of Instagram Users’ Passwords in Plaintext