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If you have an online account with Foxit Software, you need to reset your account password immediately—as an unknown attacker has compromised your personal data and log-in credentials. Foxit Software, a company known for its popular lightweight Foxit PDF Reader and PhantomPDF applications being used by over 525 million users, today announced a data breach […]
Despite not being the oldest company in the field of cybersecurity, Imperva has established itself as one of the leaders in this market, offering solutions and advice to help other companies protect the security of their information; however, this does not make it immune to cyberattacks. Web application security experts reported a data breach in […]
Imperva, one of the leading cyber-security firm disclosed a data breach that impacts the customers’ data of Cloud Web Application Firewall (WAF). According to the blog post published by Imperva CEO Chris Hylen, “elements of our Incapsula customer database through September 15, 2017, were exposed”. The company learned the data exposure on August 20, 2019, […]
Imperva, one of the leading cybersecurity startups that helps businesses protect critical data and applications from cyberattacks, has suffered a data breach that has exposed sensitive information for some of its customers, the company revealed today. The security breach particularly affects customers of Imperva’s Cloud Web Application Firewall (WAF) product, formerly known as Incapsula, a […]
Popular web hosting provider Hostinger has been hit by a massive data breach, as a result of which the company has reset passwords for all customers as a precautionary measure. In a blog post published on Sunday, Hostinger revealed that “an unauthorized third party” breached one of its servers and gained access to “hashed passwords […]
Hostinger announced a major data breach that affected nearly 14 million customers, and it reset all the client’s password as a precaution measures. Hostinger is one of the leading web hosting services provider and Internet domain registrar that provide services over 29 million users in 178 countries cybercriminals bypass the Hostinger’s internal networks, and gained […]
Popular web hosting provider Hostinger had to reset passwords of 14 million users to a “random sequence of characters” as a precautionary measure following a massive data breach. The company has sent password recovery emails to the affected consumers. According to a blog post, Hostinger claims the massive breach took place on Thursday. The company […]
Network security specialists say that MasterCard, a major payment card operator, has suffered a data breach that exposes the personal information and card numbers of thousands of users, mainly residents of Germany; the company is investigating the incident and notifying affected customers. Although the company remains airtight respect for this incident, some details have gradually […]
This is a reminder for all Internet users: We must be careful with the sites where we enter our personal data for user registration purposes. Information security experts report that Luscious, a website to share adult-only content, has become a data breach victim, compromising the personal data of more than one billion users. Compromised data […]
With data breaches becoming more common, a new one has been found taking place on a porn website, leaking data from over a million users. According to a research report by vpnMentor, pornographic website Luscious leaked 1.195 million users’ data without their knowledge. Luscious Data Breach It is suggested that the adult website allows users […]
Security researchers discovered the biggest data breach in Biometric Security Platform BioStar 2 that leaks millions of users facial recognition records, fingerprints, log data, and other personal information. BioStar 2, a web-based biometric security smart lock platform by world’s biggest bio-access B2B company Suprema, and the platform used by UK Metropolitan police, defense contractors and […]
Biometric records of more than one million people, in addition to other sensitive details, are exposed to any user’s reach in an unsecured database, web application security experts report. According to reports, the company responsible for this database works closely with British police officers, banking institutions and military contractors. Suprema, the company involved in the […]
SniffAir is an open source tool made for sophisticated wireless attacks and data capture, it handle all types of pcap files and analyze traffic through the network interface whilst looking for potential security flaws with prebuild queries. It also allows users to create custom queries for analyzing wireless data with its prebuild SQL database Installation […]
A data breach incident has just been revealed at Air New Zeland airline that, according to network security experts, could have affected more than 110k members of Airponts, its frequent flyer rewards system. The compromised personal data include: Full names Address Date of birth Passport details, maybe The number of affected users known so far […]
Micro-blogging site Twitter has disclosed that some of their advert partners are abusing a bug in their system that allowed the latter to extract user information without the consent of the account owner, also considered as an internal data breach. The bug was fixed just last August 5, 2019, as Twitter promised its entire userbase […]
Malta-based cryptocurrency exchange Binance has become a victim of a ransom demand from a scammer who claimed to have hacked the KYC (Know Your Customer) data of thousands of its customers. The unknown attacker threatened the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by volume to release KYC information of 10,000 users if the company did not pay […]
Over 1 million payment card records that stolen from south Korea sold on the dark web market for the past few months and the price fixed approximately $24. Cybercriminals posted the stolen records in Dark web since May 2019, and these stolen payment card data have been obtained from breach of a parent company that […]
Nowadays, no company is completely safe from cyberattacks. IT security audit specialists report that UK-based education software company Pearson warns its customers about a data breach that has compromised the records of more than 13k students in the US, affecting AimsWeb (assessment and teaching support software) accounts at dozens of American academic institutions. The British […]
An unsecured ElasticSearch database belongs to largets automobile manufacturer exposed online. The exposed documents include internal network and computers data of Honda Motor Company. Security researcher Justin Paine uncovered the leaked database, the ElasticSearch database contains 134M that worth around 40GB of data. It appears the database publically available for more than a week. The […]
Capital One is the latest victim of a large-scale breach, which happened from 2005 and 2019. The 14-year worth data collection may be considered as the data breach with the most number of records stolen for the longest period in the history of computing. In view of the gravity of the situation, Capital One released […]
Cybersecurity incidents keep happening in various public departments in multiple areas of the United States. This time, vulnerability analysis specialists report a data breach in Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) systems. The incident would have compromised some personal details, such as full names, phones, email addresses, and passwords stored by the agency. According to reports, […]