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Facebook allowed Netflix, Spotify, Amazon, Microsoft, Yandex and Royal Bank of Canada unprecedented access to its users’ private data. The social media giant Facebook has been making headlines for all the wrong reasons lately. Now, according to reports, Facebook allowed video streaming service Netflix, music streaming service Spotify, and Royal Bank of Canada to read, write and […]
The Cadastro de Pessoas Físicas (CPFs) is a taxpayer registry identification for Brazilians – In this case, 120 million CPFs were exposed online. The IT security researchers at InfoArmor’s Advanced Threat Intelligence team discovered a treasure trove of personal sensitive data belonging to over 120 million Brazilians exposed on an unprotected AWS (Amazon Web Service) S3 cloud […]
Amazon revealed that it suffered a Data breach before the Black Friday and leaks customers names and Email address. The e-commerce giant sent a message to its customers who had received an email purporting to come from the company including the warning which says that their email addresses and names had been leaked. Many of the […]
The $1 trillion company is unaware about the causes of the incident Amazon has suffered a security incident in its data management system, according to specialists in digital forensics from the International Institute of Cyber Security, it is unknown if the company has already notified to the authorities about the situation; in addition, the […]
The e-commerce giant Amazon has announced that it has suffered a major data breach in which names and email addresses of its registered customers have been exposed on its website – The incident occurred a few days before Black Friday. The company did not reveal what exactly happened, how many users were impacted or what’s their […]
Pacu is an open source AWS exploitation framework, designed for offensive security testing against cloud environments. Created and maintained by Rhino Security Labs, Pacu allows penetration testers to exploit configuration flaws within an AWS account, using modules to easily expand its functionality. Current modules enable a range of attacks, including user privilege escalation, backdooring of […]
Recently, an explosive Bloomberg report claimed that the Chinese spies had placed tiny microchips in servers used by companies like Apple and Amazon to control internal networks. In response to this, both Apple and Amazon have strongly denied these claims that their servers were compromised by Chinese spies. The report alleged that both the companies discovered […]
This can be one of one of the largest corporate spying and hardware hacking campaigns ever launched by a nation-state. Bloomberg has revealed in its recently published report that a nation-state has launched a significant supply chain attack. It is believed to be one of the largest corporate spying and hardware hacking campaigns ever launched […]
Allegations about some Amazon employees asking for money in exchange for valuable information are being investigated by the company According to ethical hacking specialists, allegations have emerged against Amazon staff members, as they are accused of supposedly trying to sell internal data and other advantages that independent vendors can use to try to get higher ratings for […]
Another day, another trove of medical records leaked online, thanks to a misconfigured AWS S3 bucket. Medical records are considered to be sensitive documents and when a malicious third party has access to them it is a bad news as these records can be used for fraud, blackmailing and marketing purposes against patients’ will. However, […]
The company seems to have ceded to authorities’ demands Amazon, one of the largest ecommerce companies in the world, has stated that they could begin to share payment data from its users with the authorities and law enforcement agencies of the Government of India, as reported by specialists in ethical hacking from the International Institute of Cyber […]
The same company was once caught spying on its Keyboard app users. GOMO, which is also known as Sungy Mobile, is a well-known Chinese mobile app and software developer company. It is famous worldwide for GO series applications (Yes, the developers of popular GOKeyboard app that was caught spying on millions of its users last year). […]
All thanks to Unsecure AWS S3 Bucket. GoDaddy is the latest victim of cybercriminals and has joined the league of companies that got confidential data leaked due to unsecure Amazon S3 buckets. The world’s leading domain name registering platform, GoDaddy, boasts of more than 18m customers, which makes cyber-attack on this organization a high-profile feat. […]
Believe it or not, there is still a large number of people who use passwords such as “password,” “password123”, “[dog’s name]1” and others along the same lines. And in the era of sophisticated hacking, these passwords are not exactly “safe.” Before me, this is the first thing websites should inform you while setting up a password. But apparently, many […]
Consumers in the United States and elsewhere are struggling to access the Amazon website during the start of Prime Day sales. Many reported that the e-commerce platform had been blocked, showing them only an error message that said: “Sorry, something went wrong on our part”. The problems are focused on the US, but they are […]
Amazon is selling its facial recognition technology called Rekognition to the American law enforcement agencies — this news has been making rounds in the digital media circuits for quite some time now. In response to this deal and ignorance of privacy risks, different civil liberties and human rights organizations have also voiced their opinions. Back in […]
A traditional malware aims at stealing user data or keep an eye on victim’s online activities whereas depending on its capabilities a crypto mining malware not only steals data but also uses computing power (CPU) of victim’s PC to mine cryptocurrency and slow down its performance. Recently, there has been a sudden surge in crypto mining malware targeting […]
Scandal Alert— Facebook Partnered with 60+ Device Makers Including Smartphone and Tablet manufacturers and Provided Them Access to Users’ Private Data. Contrary to the claim made in front of the Congress by Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, that whenever an individual chooses to ‘share something on Facebook’ it proactively goes through the service and decides what […]
Researchers at Kromtech Security Center discovered a trove of data belonging to Honda Connect App which was exposed online. The data was stored in two unsecured Amazon AWS S3 Buckets available for public access without any protection More: 119,000 FedEx users passports, security ID & driving licenses exposed Simply put, anyone with an Internet connection and basic knowledge of AWS buckets […]
A large number of information security experts are betting on a future with a great presence of voice assistants fed by artificial intelligence. Digital beings that would help us answer questions and make our lives easier. Although there is still a long way to go before this, in the Google Assistant and Amazon’s Alexa we can see […]
A popular teen monitoring app has become a victim of a data breach in which plaintext Apple ID passwords are believed to have been compromised. Dubbed as TeenSafe, the app is very popular among parents with over a million subscribers. It is popular because parents can track the whereabouts of their teens. It is advertised as […]