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Can technologies combining data analytics and artificial intelligence save the world from its growing problems? Yes, it is possible! Data has an essential place in the structure of the modern world. Every day, Internet users generate a massive amount of data by creating and sharing posts and making search queries. However, this is only a […]
The U.S. is on track to break the single-year data breach record in 2021, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC). That’s not even the whole story. For every high-profile data breach you hear about in the news, dozens of lower-profile attacks occur. These smaller breaches might not compromise millions of records at a […]
GoDaddy detected unauthorized access to its systems where it hosts and manages its customers’ WordPress servers. The Scottsdale, Arizona-based web registrar and hosting firm GoDaddy has disclosed that it suffered a data breach in which the personal details plus login of up to 1.2 million active and inactive customers were accessed by an “unauthorized third […]
Big data analytics can be directed to several use cases, like marketing, talent management, sales forecasting, or in this case, cybersecurity. Let’s dig into hows and whats of it. Cybersecurity has been a headache for enterprises almost since the beginning of the business internet, but in the last couple of years the pressure has ramped […]
The victims of this “data leak” also include celebrities like Alicia Keys, Loren Gray, Kylie Jenner, Ariana Grande, and Kim Kardashian. The cybersecurity team at Safety Detectives, led by Anurag Sen, discovered an unsecured ElasticSearch server belonging to IGBlade.com, a social media analytics site. The server stored scraped data of millions of social media users. […]
The latest EPIK data leak, according to Anonymous hackers involves bootable disk images, API tokens, over 500,000 private keys, etc. – All in plain-text format. Hacktivist group Anonymous has published the second part of data stolen from controversial pro-right-wing web hosting platform Epik. As previously reported by Hackread.com, the previous leak comprised 180GB of the […]
The data was exposed due to an unprotected Elasticsearch cluster and remained open to public access without any security authentication. Well-known security researcher Bob Diachenko discovered a ‘Giant’ blunder made by UK media outlet The Telegraph after it exposed 10 terabytes of subscribers’ data. According to Diachenko, the trove of records included subscriber information and […]
Lithuania’s Defense Ministry has released a warning, urging consumers to get rid of their Chinese phones and not to buy new ones. This warning comes in response to Lithuanian cybersecurity researchers identifying several security flaws and censorship-related loopholes in certain Chinese-made smartphones. Hackread.com has learned that researchers tested 5G mobiles from different Chinese mobile makers, […]
According to researchers, the incident involved 47 government and private entities across the United States. The IT security researchers at UpGuard published a research report disclosing that organizations using Microsoft Power Apps were susceptible to a default misconfiguration, which made their data sets findable by anyone knowing the web address and search engines. UpGuard researchers […]
The misconfigured Amazon S3 bucket belonged to Reindeer, a now-defunct marketing company based in the United States. Threat analysis from the WizCase security team led by Ata Hakçıl revealed a data leak impacting the now-defunct American marketing firm Reindeer. WizCase’s team of researchers identified that the data leak exposed sensitive personal data of the company, […]
Most of the email addresses checked by researchers contained .gov suffixes or indicated that the user worked for New York Police Department. In April 2021, a hacker dumped household data of 250 million Americans online, and now VPNMentor’s team of cybersecurity researchers led by Noam Rotem and Ran Locar discovered a misconfigured Cloud database stored on […]
“Surveilling the Gamers: Privacy Impacts of the Video Game Industry,” a new research reveals how personal and financial data collected by gaming giants can become a privacy disaster for unsuspected gamers. The gaming industry today is worth more than $300 billion, thanks to the huge growth we have seen in the past few years. This […]
In recent news, people are shocked to find out all of their data stored on their Western Digital My Book Live hard drives has been wiped out through a factory reset. These storage devices have the convenient feature of being accessed remotely over the internet and as it appears to be, this may have been […]
Hackread.com informed Patari of the data breach almost a week ago yet we did not receive any response whatsoever. Patari or Patari.pk, a Pakistani music streaming site has suffered a data breach in which its database containing personal data and login credentials of over 257,000 registered users has been leaked on English and Russian language […]
Cybersecurity firm Cognyte fails to secure its database exposing 5 billion records comprise of previous data breaches. In recent news, a cybersecurity analytics firm, Cognyte was found to be responsible for leaving a huge database unsecured which led to more than 5 billion records being exposed online. The database could be accessed by anyone and […]
If you are reading this, thinking about your personal data or even secrets, you may have bigger problems than you can solve. The secrets we are talking about here, have to do with GitHub. Therefore, they can be API keys, usernames, passwords, and other sensitive information, located in these environments. Thankfully, there are solutions. Here […]
According to Canada Post, sensitive information of over 950,000 customers and 44 of its large business clients has been exposed in the malware attack. Another day, another data breach. This time, the victim is the Canadian postal agency Canada Post who on Wednesday confirmed in a press release that data of over 950,000 of its customers could […]
Bose reveals it suffered “a sophisticated cyber-attack that disrupted some of its systems” in the United States. Ransomware attacks are the new normal. From laptop manufacturer Acer to Colonial, the largest fuel pipeline in the United States, no one is protected from this ever-growing threat. Its latest victim is The audio equipment manufacturer giant Bose. […]
The company was informed about the exposed data in December 2020 but it only responded and secured the data in March 2021. FastTrack Reflex Recruitment firm recently joined the ranks of other companies that have been affected by data leaks due to misconfigured AWS S3 buckets. This data breach majorly affected the applicants whose CVs […]
The massive data leak occurred due to misconfigured cloud services used by Android apps with millions of downloads. Personal data of over 100 million Android users were exposed due to misconfigured cloud services. The issue was identified in around 23 applications, which boasted up to 10 million downloads and included internal developer resources. SEE: Warning […]
The 1-tap security feature will help users protect their compromised accounts in time. On Tuesday, Google announced Chrome browser on Android’s brand-new feature that automatically changed stolen passwords with just a tap. This means Chrome users can stop worrying about compromised passwords as they can fix them with this automated feature. Google to use Duplex […]