The ride-hailing app database was hosted on an insecure MongoDB server. Another day, another data breach – This time, security researchers have identified a ride-hailing app exposing personal data of 1 to 2 million Iranian drivers, thanks to an insecure MongoDB database. The database (labeled named ‘doroshke-invoice-production) was discovered by Security Discovery’s researcher Bob Diachenko […]
Cyber forensics course specialists reported that a few days ago Julian Assange was expelled from the Embassy of Ecuador in London this morning, after the government of the South American country decided to revoke the asylum it provided to the founder of WikiLeaks. According to specialists of the International Institute of Cyber Security (IICS) this […]
The United States is now requesting the United Kingdom to extradite Julain Assange. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, 47, has been arrested by Met Police from the embassy of Ecuador in London after seven years of refuge over a now dropped case of sexual assault. The arrest took place after Ecuadorian president Lenin Moreno withdrew Assange’s asylum for “repeatedly […]
According to the authors of ‘Learn ethical hacking‘, the fugitive programmer Julian Assange will be expelled from the Embassy of Ecuador in London in the next few hours, as declared by ‘a high-level source’. Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, has been living in the embassy since the year 2012, after the Swedish authorities tried to interrogate […]
The Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General has released a report revealing that FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) couldn’t protect the private and confidential information of about 2.3 million hurricane survivors. In 2017, residents of Harvey, Maria, Irma, and California wildfires and hurricanes were offered Transitional Sheltering Assistance (TSA), which is a […]
Huawei’s MWC 2019 event is just around the corner, wherein the company is expected to introduce its first foldable smartphone. But hours ahead of the launch, the company’s MWC 2019 banner has been leaked, revealing more about the foldable device. According to a tweet by a user named “@gimme2pm”, Huawei’s foldable smartphone is likely to […]
The cyberactivism has a new anonymous face According to Salvador Ruiz, network security specialist from the International Institute of Cyber Security, Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDOS) is a transparency collective whose main goal is to enable the free transmission of public interest data. DDOS aims to avoid any political, corporate or personal leanings, and simply […]
Generally, Android users look out for free VPN apps on Google Play Store as the first step towards protecting privacy. But a new report suggests that the top free VPN apps are actually home to many privacy leaks and malware. Analyzing 150 free and popular VPN apps for Android, Top10VPN discovered that at least 90% of […]
China is often suspected to sponsor hack attacks against organizations and agencies in the US or Europe. However, this time around China itself has become a victim of a security breach. Reportedly, an unprotected MongoDB has exposed personal and professional details of more than 202 million people. HackenProof’s security researcher Bob Diachenko discovered that resume files of […]
As the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S10 is nearing, mandatory rumors and leaks are flooding. Fueling further anticipation, the recent leak alludes to the possible design of the forthcoming smartphone. If a tweet by popular leakster Evan Blass is to be believed, the new flagship by Samsung is expected to feature the company’s proprietary […]
It seems like the 48 is the new USP when it comes to cameras! After the Honor View 20 with 48-megapixel rear snapper made its entry, the alleged Motorola P40 is now expected to come with a similar arrangement. According to a report by 91Mobiles, via OnLeaks, apart from featuring a 48-megapixel rear camera, the […]
Just a day after Google announced a Google+ API leak, which could have impacted many users, a Rhode Island government entity has filed a lawsuit against the global internet giant. We had reported, on December 11, that Google+ had been hit by a bug which could have led to the accounts of about 52.5 million […]
Aimed at preventing leaks of personal information from state agencies, Russia has drawn up a bill, a move that follows publication of details of Russians allegedly involved in covert intelligence operations abroad. Based on reports from Reuters and Interfax, the bill, produced by Russia’s communications ministry, bars unauthorized people from creating and publishing databases of […]
Developers insist that existing defenses will be enough to contain attacks, but experts disagree Information security and digital forensic investigators have discovered a new set of transient execution attacks on modern CPUs that allow a local attacker to gain access to the system’s privileged data, confirming predictions made when the cybersecurity community revealed the Spectre and Meltdown […]
Researchers have discovered a vulnerability in all Android versions except Android 9, which could allow attackers to capture WiFi broadcast data and even pinpoint geolocation of users — all of this without user’s consent. Nightwatch Cybersecurity posted a security advisory about the bug CVE-2018-9489, which states how the broadcasted information for installed Android apps can cause the device to […]
Sensitive information has been compromised ABBYY, a company that develops optical character recognition (OCR) and text scanning software, left exposed a server that contains 142GB of scanned documents of a client, so that anyone with Internet access can access them, without need to use a password. The MongoDB server hosted on Amazon Web Services accidentally configured for public access, […]
Windows-based Outlook Express for a long time had been the center of controversy for Microsoft for implementing an insecure email client from 1993 till 2006. It was only until the release of Windows Vista’s Mail app (Outlook Express’ successor.) when Microsoft started to pick-up a better PR for their email client’s security reputation. However, vulnerabilities […]
The source code of Snapchat, the very popular social media app, was posted online on the Microsoft-owned repository GitHub. A GitHub repository called Source-Snapchat and with a description “Source Code for Snapchat” was created using the alias i5xx, and then the hacker, who claims to be from Pakistan, published what he calls the source code […]
Pakistani Hacker Posted Authentic Snapchat Source Code on GitHub – Snapchat’s source code is stolen…can there be a piece of bigger news than that? Perhaps there is! Not only that the source code has been stolen but also posted on Microsoft-owned GitHub of all the platforms. Reportedly, the hacker hails from a small village in Pakistan and […]
An activist has just leaked thousands of private messages from an organization known for posting sensitive information Reports of enterprise network security claim that around 11K Direct Messages (DM) from a Twitter group used by WikiLeaks and nearly 10 close collaborators have been published online by journalist and activist Emma Best, exposing private chats between 2015 and 2017. The […]
This service carries a bad reputation about sensitive information protection LifeLock’s identity theft protection service suffered a security flaw that compromised the identity of its users, as reported by experts in enterprise data protection services from the International Institute of Cyber Security. The event forced Symantec, its parent company, to withdraw part of its website to solve the […]