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Data of 10.6m MGM hotel guests posted for sale on Dark Web forum

February 21, 2020 0 Comments Celebrities, data breach, data dump, data loss, gnosticplayers, guests, hacking forum, hotel, irina nesterovsky, kela, las vegas, mgm resorts, PII, security threats, sim card, sim swap, sim swap fraud, under the breach

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 11:55:24 +0000

The data dump apparently included PII for Justin Bieber and Jack Dorsey.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/Z2tLH5LX16k” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Private photos leaked by PhotoSquared’s unsecured cloud storage

February 19, 2020 0 Comments amazon s3, amazon simple storage service (s3) bucket, Amazon web services, amazon web services (aws) storage bucket, Android, AWS, breach, CCPA, Cloud, cloud storage, credit card fraud, data breach, data leak, data loss, exposed database, financial fraud, identity theft, iOS, leak, Mobile, personally identifiable information, phishing, photo apps, photosquared, PII, port scanning, Privacy, s3 database, security threats, vpnMentor, web mapping

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 11:49:20 +0000

With no password required and no encryption in place, a burglar or ID thief could have seen your photos, your address and more.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/v6L-VwD68-Y” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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WordPress plugin hole could have allowed attackers to wipe websites

February 19, 2020 0 Comments data loss, demo importer plugin, plugin developer, plugins, security threats, themegrill, vulnerability, webarx, Wordpress, WordPress plugin

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 11:21:03 +0000

A WordPress plugin with over 100,000 active installations had a bug that could have allowed unauthorised attackers to wipe its users’ blogs clean, it emerged this week.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/GCOxf6ngpvk” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Sensitive plastic surgery images exposed online

February 18, 2020 0 Comments amazon, Amazon web services, AWS, aws bucket, Cloud Security, cloud storage, data leak, data loss, data protection, exposed data, medical data, medical images, next motion, online privacy, personally identifiable information, PII, plastic surgery, Privacy, security threats, vpnMentor

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 11:04:56 +0000

Researchers at VPN advisory company vpnMentor have found yet another online data exposure caused by a misconfigured cloud database.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/3bHx9OL42rQ” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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US charges four Chinese military members with Equifax hack

February 12, 2020 0 Comments Breach Notification, china, chinese military, credit monitoring, data breach, data loss, Equifax, financial data, identity theft, Law & order, PII, Privacy, rce, security threats

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 11:48:41 +0000

The indictment suggests the hack was part of a series of major data thefts organized by Chinese military and intelligence agencies.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/2euIheG1QVA” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Data about inmates and jail staff spilled by leaky prison app

February 12, 2020 0 Comments amazon, amazon s3, amazon simple storage service (s3) bucket, Cloud, cloud storage, correctional facility, correctional risk services, crs technologies, Cryptography, data breach, data leak, data loss, exposed database, google cloud, inmates, jailcore, jailhouse, Law & order, PII, port scanning, prescriptions, prison, prisoners, Privacy, privacy policy, s3 bucket, security threats, sha-256, ssl certification, terms of service, tos, vpnMentor, web mapping

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 10:16:24 +0000

A web-mapping project came across detainees’ prescriptions and other PII that could be used by identity thieves to victimize prisoners.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/ypFJWLIWMOE” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Cybercrooks busted for multimillion-dollar identity fraud

February 7, 2020 0 Comments australia, cryptocurrency, cybercrime squad, data loss, emily walker, financial data, identity theft, jason lees, Law & order, Money Laundering, new south wales, security threats, sydney

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2020 11:21:30 +0000

Organizations were attacked for employees’ data, including names, addresses and birthdates used to set up hundreds of bank accounts.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/fdxyW-Y19KM” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Someone else may have your videos, Google tells users

February 5, 2020 0 Comments cloud storage, data loss, duo security, Google, google photos, google take out, google takeaway, Privacy, security threats, the cloud

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2020 11:58:47 +0000

As the well-worn internet saying goes – there is no cloud, it’s just someone else’s computer.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/ANgXswF_DM0″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Twitter admits to raid on users’ phone numbers

February 5, 2020 0 Comments 2fa, android app, data loss, ibrahim balic, phone numbers, Privacy, security threats, Social networks, twitter, twitter phone numbers, vulnerability

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2020 11:20:13 +0000

It relates to Twitter’s contact upload feature, which allows users to find others via contact info such as email or phone number.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/JjUJFBQ-IaQ” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Google launches open-source security key project, OpenSK

February 3, 2020 0 Comments ble, Cryptography, data loss, dongle, fido, fido u2f, FIDO2, Google, nfc, nordic, opensk, security key, usb, WebAuthn, Yubikey

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2020 11:02:06 +0000

OpenSK is a piece of firmware that you can install on a USB dongle of your own, turning it into a usable FIDO or U2F key.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/ku-9LnVkKCo” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>