Security

WordPress Block Editor could let even most basic users exploit XSS vulns!

  WordPress 5.4.2 release announcement stated the update shipped with multiple fixes for Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities. Out of this…

5 years ago

Patient video consultations leaked in medical data breach: Babylon Health UK

  In an a unfortunate incident, video consultants of some patients using the Babylon Health app were leaked to other…

5 years ago

Security firm admits to exposure of 5 billion records, after attempting to censor researchers

  In March 2020, Bob Diachenko reported discovering an unprotected, publicly accessible  Elasticsearch instance which exposed two collections of records:…

5 years ago

Keepnet Labs case study: how NOT to handle a data breach

  We just released news on this one but here's a summary of what happened: In March 2020, Bob Diachenko,…

5 years ago

Italian business operation CloudEye actually aids hackers in spreading GuLoader

Conservative estimates put company’s monthly income at a minimum $500,000. According to a recently released report, researchers at Checkpoint blame…

5 years ago

Google’s indexing of WhatsApp numbers raises privacy concerns

Google is indexing the phone numbers used on WhatsApp, and a researcher is concerned that it could cause privacy issues…

5 years ago

ZEE5 allegedly hacked by ‘Korean hackers’, customer info at risk

A hacker identifying themselves as "John Wick" and "Korean Hackers" claim to have breached the systems for Indian video on demand…

5 years ago

Joomla data breach leaks 2,700 user records via exposed backups

A Joomla database leak has exposed the personal information, including hashed passwords, of 2,700 individuals registered on the Joomla Resources Directory…

5 years ago

“Sign in with Apple” vulnerability earns researcher $100,000

Remember seeing that slick "Sign in with Apple" button across many websites and apps? It turns out that a vulnerability allowed…

5 years ago

Microsoft IIS servers hacked by Blue Mockingbird to mine Monero

This month news broke about a hacker group, namely Blue Mockingbird, exploiting a critical vulnerability in Microsoft IIS servers to plant Monero (XMR)…

5 years ago

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