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Ethical hacking specialists from security firm ESET report the discovery of a misconfigured ElasticSearch implementation that has resulted in the internet exposure of nearly 2.5 million Colombian citizens. The compromised information includes names, email addresses, phone numbers and other personal details. Reporting this security flaw was a titanic task for the firm’s experts, as it […]
Data of Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks was also found in this breach who lived in the Ecuadorian embassy in London since 2012 till April this year after being granted asylum initially. When companies like Facebook can suffer data breaches, it is a good idea for smaller firms to step up their security game. This […]
Ecuador officials have arrested the general manager of IT consulting firm Novaestrat after the personal details of almost the entire population of the Republic of Ecuador left exposed online in what seems to be the most significant data breach in the country’s history. Personal records of more than 20 million adults and children, both dead […]
An investigation by a group of information security experts from the firm vpnMentor discovered a massive data breach that has affected more than 20 million citizens of Ecuador; it appears that the exposure of this information has occurred due to a database with poor security measures. The researchers, led by Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, […]
According to cyber forensics course specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security (IICS) the government of Ecuador has faced about 40 million cyberattacks in retaliation for the decision to remove the political asylum to Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, which lead to his arrest by the British authorities last week. After remaining as a […]
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 […]
The official Twitter account of Ecuadoran president Rafael Correa was hacked last Thursday with several anti-government tweets spammed over the social media. The hacked Twitter account which has 1.45 million followers was found spamming messages against the government, containing links of Anonymous Ecuador’s website where official documents and emails uploaded by the hacktivists were published. The hacked account was restored […]