July 19, 2018

Automated money-laundering scheme found in free-to-play games

The scammers automatically created iOS accounts with valid email accounts, then automatically used stolen cards to buy and resell stuff.

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March 26, 2018

Shodan and passwords sitting in a tree, S-H-O-W-I-N-G!

If an application offers authentication security, it’s always a good idea to turn it on if that isn’t the default setting.

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September 07, 2017

Unsecured databases are (still) the low-hanging fruit of the internet

We've written about way too many of these incidents - make sure your database isn't spilling data too

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June 02, 2017

Thousands of enterprise apps exposing data on back-end servers

With so much data apparently exposed via back-end servers, we shouldn't be surprised if there's a new wave of thefts and extortion attempts

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February 28, 2017

Data and kids’ voice messages exposed in CloudPets breach

CloudPets under fire for not having responded to warnings about the breach in December

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January 11, 2017

Thousands of MongoDB databases compromised and held to ransom

MongoDB databases are being hit by an attacker demanding a 0.2BTC ransom

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January 10, 2017

Stolen details of 3.3m Hello Kitty fans – including kids – published online

A year after Sanrio promised that the records were safe, the database - including more than 186,000 children's details - has appeared online

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January 04, 2017

News in brief: child bypasses iPhone security; MongoDB warning; ransom demand of time

Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news

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April 27, 2016

Dating site that once faked being hacked is breached for real this time

BeautifulPeople.com, which once said it was hit by a virus as a marketing stunt, has had a real data breach affecting 1.1 million users.

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