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Leaky database spills data on 20 million Ecuadorians and businesses

September 18, 2019 0 Comments BEC, data loss, Database, ecuador, government data, Government security, julian assange, leak, novaestrat, novastratech, phishing, PII, security threats, vpnMentor

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:21:46 +0000

Included are deep details on 7 million minors, one grownup named Julian Assange, and perhaps a few million deceased Ecuadorians.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/oulqmkZ0WNw” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Robocalls now flooding US phones with 200m calls per day

September 17, 2019 0 Comments caller id, data loss, legislation, Mobile, neighbor spoofing, nuisance calls, phishing, robocalling, robocalls, security threats, shaken/stir, snowshoe spamming, spoofing, telemarketing, vishing, voip

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 11:24:15 +0000

According to a new report, nearly 30% of all US calls placed in the first half of 2019 were garbage, as in, nuisance, scam or fraud calls.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/UDmV3nOCTag” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Teen music hacker arrested in UK for stealing bands’ unreleased music

September 17, 2019 0 Comments cloud storage, data loss, Hacking, Law & order, london, music, phishing, pipcu, police intellectual property crime unit, streaming

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 09:36:10 +0000

If he’s guilty, he’ll face the music. Heh.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/AZwjoKbVLpA” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Leaky database full of fake Groupon emails turns out to belong to crooks

September 13, 2019 0 Comments data loss, Elasticsearch, fraud, groupon, NeuroTicket, Noam Rotem, Ran Locar, ransom, security threats, Ticketmaster, tickets, TickPick, vpnMentor, vulnerability

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2019 12:43:47 +0000

Crooks made bogus accounts to buy tickets with fake credit cards, resold them to unsuspecting buyers, and left the database-o-fraud wide open.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/GRSpDu39Kqg” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Fin7 sysadmin pleads guilty to running IT for billion-dollar crime syndicate

September 13, 2019 0 Comments admin, breach, Carbanak Group, Combi Security, data loss, Fedir Hladyr, Fin7, hipchat, Joker Stash, Law & order, malware, Navigator Group, pen testing, penetration testing, phishing, POS systems, Social engineering, sysadmin, systems administrator, wire fraud

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2019 10:17:07 +0000

Fedir Oleksiyovich Hladyr is the first member of the infamous cybercrime network to be found guilty of hacking-related crimes in a US court.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/DC2ee9v8THo” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Database exposed 133 million US Facebook users’ phone numbers

September 6, 2019 0 Comments Cambridge Analytica, data breach, data loss, exposed database, facebook, Privacy, sim swap, telephone number

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2019 12:46:55 +0000

Facebook confirmed the breach, claiming that the total number of users in the database was 210 million.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/1g5AlsbhrXc” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Facebook loses control of key used to sign Android app

September 4, 2019 0 Comments Android, Android Package Kit, APK, APK repository, data loss, facebook, Free Basics, Google, Internet.org, Mobile, private key, security threats, signing key, walled garden

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2019 16:30:46 +0000

What should be a private key used to vouch for the ‘Free Basics by Facebook’ app was used to sign unrelated apps.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/oMymgOZ03gI” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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EFF and Mozilla scold Venmo over app’s privacy failings

September 4, 2019 0 Comments data loss, EFF, financial data, Mozilla, Mozilla Foundation, Payment apps, Paypal, Privacy, security threats, Social networks, Venmo

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2019 09:34:26 +0000

The tense stand-off between privacy campaigners and the popular mobile payment app Venmo has taken another turn for the worse.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/dIdmnOeegug” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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XKCD forums breached

September 3, 2019 0 Comments bcrypt, breach, correcthorsebatterystaple, Cryptography, data breach, data leak, data loss, hashing, MD5, phpBB, salting, security threats, vulnerability, xkcd

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2019 10:17:58 +0000

How did the Correct Horse Battery get Stapled?<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/YDE5xjmhFxY” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Google throws bug bounty bucks at mega-popular third-party apps

September 2, 2019 0 Comments Android, bug bounties, chrome, data loss, DDPRP, Developer Data Protection Reward Program, extensions, Google, Google Chrome, Google Play, Google Play Security Reward Program, hackerone, Mobile, oauth, security threats, third party apps, vulnerability

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2019 10:51:32 +0000

Google’s going to throw more bug bounty money at the problem of nasty apps in its Play Store, it announced on Thursday. In a post from the Android Security & Privacy team’s Adam Bacchus, Sebastian Porst, and Patrick Mutchler , the company said that it’s throwing the security net over not just its own apps, but […]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/bPMJRaBtj94″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>