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LinkedIn privacy fail
The LinkedIn mobile app for iOS devices has been discovered sending potentially confidential private and business information to the company servers without the users’ …
Hackers breach WHMCS via social engineering
WHMCS, the company behind the popular commercial billing and automation software program used by many web hosting firms, has had its web server hacked on Monday. Hacker group …
Kickstarter bug granted access to unlaunched projects
A bug in the private application programming interface (API) of Kickstarter, the popular crowd funding website for creative projects, has exposed details about 70,000 projects …
Government workers unprotected against visual data leakage
Oculis Labs released results from its “Government Worker Privacy” survey on privacy risks for mobile workers. 104 people were randomly surveyed at this …
Microsoft names source of RDP code leak
Microsoft confirmed that, as speculated months ago, the RDP PoC exploit was sourced from China. It was apparent that the exploit originated in the West as researchers noticed …
New hacking group hits government websites, leaks stolen data
A hacker group that named itself “The Unknowns” has recently boasted on Pastebin of having compromised a number of government, business and educational websites, …
DLP with real-time artificial intelligence
BeyondTrust announced PowerBroker DLP v4.0, its data loss prevention solution with real-time, distributed artificial intelligence, which provides organizations a …
Most orgs don’t know what data is leaving their systems
Only 20% of IT executives say they have visibility into files and data moving inside and leaving their organization, and 29% of them perceive moving data back and forth …
VMvare confirms server hypervisor source code leak
VMware has confirmed that a file from the VMware ESX server hypervisor source code has indeed been leaked by a hacker that goes by the handle “Hardcore Charlie” . …
Anonymous to set up secure Pastebin alternative
Following Pastebin.com owner’s announcement of his intention of speeding up takedown of sensitive information and his willingness to share the posters’ IP …
Zero-permission Android app exports sensitive data
When installing new apps on an Android device, users are asked to give their permission for specific actions that an app must be able to perform in order to function properly. …
Utah data breach numbers 750K+ victims
Social Security numbers of some 280,000 Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Plans users and “less sensitive” information on 500,000 more of them has …
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