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By Ionut Arghire on March 15, 2021 Most security agencies fail to properly sanitize Portable Document Format (PDF) files before publishing them, thus exposing potentially sensitive information and opening the door for attacks, researchers have discovered. An analysis of roughly 40,000 PDFs published by 75 security agencies in 47 countries has revealed that these files can be used to identify employees who use outdated software, according to Supriya Adhatarao and Cédric Lauradoux, two research...

A cloud misconfig by SocialArks exposed 318 million records gleaned from Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn. More than 400GB of public and private profile data for 214 million social-media users from around the world has been exposed to the internet – including details for celebrities and social-media influencers in the U.S. and elsewhere. The leak stems from a misconfigured ElasticSearch database owned by Chinese social-media management company SocialArks, which contained personally identifiab...

Access, you can go in there and delete it and you can adjust your privacy settings. these quote, unquote privacy checkups where you opt in or out of various services. so there are tools for consumers to use. they are not entirely clear. you have to dig around through some links. and while it is important that, yeah, we dont just sit here and say were victims, the companies -- theyre monitoring us, at the same time we have to recognize these are the settings that a select few will bother to go in...

I was troubled by the way she handled such information. whats your perspective on how the fbi should handle cases in the future about those cases? >> this issue is very important to me. they investigated a number of cases of data exposure. it shows just how much of our sources come from our overseas partners. most americans have no idea how important that is. if we can protect classified information, that information