Kiddicare customers at risk after data spills from test server
Kiddicare used real production customer data on its poorly-secured test site. Quack quack oops.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
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Major Mac flaw spills your passwords
Apple claims that its “Keychain” software lets people securely store their passwords on their Macs. As it turns out, hackers can pull the keys off the chain. A crucial flaw found in Macs allows a malicious app to snatch the passwords from your Keychain …
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Facebook’s 10 years of security & privacy thrills ‘n spills
Happy 10th birthday, Facebook! We shall celebrate by listicling the service’s security and privacy greatest hits and biggest misses. Fasten your Facebelts!
Naked Security – Sophos
Adobe breach reportedly spills easy-to-crack password hashes
Adobe officials are investigating the breach of an online user forum related to its Connect conferencing software following a report that 230 names, e-mail addresses, and cryptographically hashed passwords were leaked online.
“At this point of our investigation, it appears that the Connectusers.com forum site was compromised by an unauthorized third party,” Adobe’s Guillaume Privat wrote in a blog post published on Wednesday. “It does not appear that any other Adobe services, including the Adobe Connect conferencing service itself, were impacted.”
Adobe officials took the forum offline on Tuesday evening and are in the process of resetting passwords. Forum members will receive instructions for restoring their accounts once the forum is operational again.
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