Popular Sonic the HedgeHog Apps at Risk of Leaking User Data to Unverified Servers
Researchers have found three Sega game apps that connect to insecure servers and risk leaking user data.
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Amazon moves to stop S3 buckets leaking business data
Businesses don’t need to be targeted by sophisticated hackers to have private and sensitive data splashed across the newspaper headlines.
Read more in my article on the Bitdefender Business Insights blog.
Hackers hit White House staffer’s Gmail account, raises security concerns by leaking sensitive emails
A scan seemingly of Michelle Obama’s passport is amongst the haul of leaked information.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Alleged NSA hackers probably gave away a small fortune by leaking exploits
Anonymous hackers probably gave away hundreds of thousands of dollars in potential sales in the black market when they leaked valuable cyberweapons allegedly stolen from the U.S. National Security Agency.
The hackers, known as the Shadow Brokers, posted a sample file of the cyberweapons earlier this month and at least some of them appear to be zero-day exploits, or attacks that rely on software defects that practically no one knew about.
Before they were publicly leaked, each of these zero-day exploits could have sold for a great deal of money, according to security researchers. They’re designed to affect firewall and router products from Cisco, Juniper Networks and Fortinet, in addition to those from Chinese vendors.
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