Members of “Anonymous” have breached a number of sub-domains of the European Space Agency website and leaked personal and login credentials of thousands of subscribers and officials. The leaked data includes full names, email addresses, office addresses, institution names, phone numbers, fax numbers and in many of the cases, clear-text passwords have also been exposed. Overall, more
If you just couldn’t get enough of changing your passwords after the Heartbleed fiasco and still keep an active AOL account, you’re in luck. The company announced on Monday that it is further investigating a security incident after a “significant” number of user accounts were found to have been compromised, with AOL estimating around 2%
From the latest credit card breach to Microsoft’s privacy ‘faux pas’, here are the week’s top security stories – take a few minutes and catch up before the madness begins again!
If you’re using WhatsApp on an Android – even after yesterday’s update – your chats are prone to being downloaded by others, a security consultant has discovered. Bas Bosschert, CTO and consultant at Double Think, along with his brother, discovered this exploit after wondering if it would be possible to upload and read someone’s WhatsApp
It was a crazy week, with the secretive Bitcoin creator supposedly outed, details of 280,000+ payment cards tied to Sally Beauty purchases discovered for sale online and a new Facebook clickjacking campaign that preys on the curious, so let’s get down to it shall we? Here are your weeks biggest security stories:
There’s a famous saying about how the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Nothing could be truer about the world’s relationship with passwords, and it’s a reality that should hit the security world even harder. After all, as we recently learned, the Target hack affecting at
Yahoo’s in the news again with a new vulnerability (now fixed) and a starring role, unknown to them, in the Brit’s surveillance methods. With Sears possibly facing another breach and a cache of 360 million user credentials found for sale on the black market, there’s a lot to know about so take a few minutes
SSL encryption was the name of the security game this week, with major vulnerabilities –now fixed – facing both iOS and WhatsApp users and Neiman Marcus released a new analysis of their recent breach – and apparently someone was NOT paying attention. Catch up on all last week’s stories before RSA USA takes over your
This week, Kickstarter suffered its’ first major breach with minor consequences, Target’s back in the ring with new reports indicating missed warnings from analysts about the payment systems, the Syrian Electronic Army strikes again, this time hitting Forbes, Internet Explorer suffered critical zero-day exploits and more. Before the next week full of security scares rolls
This week, NBC got called out for a slightly exaggerated report of hacking in Sochi (hint: they weren’t even in Sochi); SnapChat got hit with another vulnerability report; Target was hacked via their A/C and heat guys and more. Here’s a short n’ sweet version of the weeks’ news you may have missed.
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