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Data of 100M Android users exposed from faulty cloud storage syncing SHARE The data of more than 100 million Android app users has been found exposed because of misconfigurations relating to third-party services. Detailed May 20 by researchers at Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., the exposure relates to 23 popular apps that put user’s personal data at risk through developer internal resources, such as access to update mechanisms and storage. The potential brea...

Misconfigurations may have exposed data on 100 million Android users on March 2, 2010 in Hannover, Germany. Researchers on Thursday reported that in analyzing Android apps on open databases they discovered serious cloud misconfigurations that led to the potential exposure of data belonging to more than 100 million users. In a blog post, CheckPoint Research explained how the misuse of a real-time database, notification managers, and storage exposed the personal data of users, leaving cor...

Open API at exercise equipment company Peloton exposed private user data SHARE Interactive exercise equipment company Peloton Interactive Inc. has suffered a potential data breach after it was discovered that its application programming interface exposed user data including private accounts. The revelation came on the same day the company was forced to recall two of its treadmills following the death of a six-year-old child. The API vulnerability was discovered by Ja...

7 Modern-Day Cybersecurity Realities Security pros may be working with a false sense of security. We explore seven places where old methods and techniques have to change to keep their organizations safe. 1 of 8 Image Source: Adobe Stock: freshidea Move to the cloud. Shift left. Buy the latest XDR and deception tools. The technology and cybersecurity industry has always been susceptible to marketing hype, but do these moves actually make their organizations more secure? Or do they just add mor...

); //]]>//--> By John P. Mello Jr. Apr 6, 2021 4:00 AM PT A rich cache of data on some 533 million Facebook users was posted to a hacker forum over the weekend and is available to download for practically free. The information is from a data breach that occurred in 2019, but hasnt been widely available until now. The data was posted to an English-speaking cybercriminal forum called RaidForums by a hacker going by the handle TomLiner. "The Facebook data was first listed for sale on RaidForums on...

7 Modern-Day Cybersecurity Realities Security pros may be working with a false sense of security. We explore seven places where old methods and techniques have to change to keep their organizations safe. 1 of 8 Image Source: Adobe Stock: freshidea Move to the cloud. Shift left. Buy the latest XDR and deception tools. The technology and cybersecurity industry has always been susceptible to marketing hype, but do these moves actually make their organizations more secure? Or do they just add mor...

Apr 6, 2021 4:00 AM PT A rich cache of data on some 533 million Facebook users was posted to a hacker forum over the weekend and is available to download for practically free. The information is from a data breach that occurred in 2019, but hasnt been widely available until now. The data was posted to an English-speaking cybercriminal forum called RaidForums by a hacker going by the handle TomLiner. "The Facebook data was first listed for sale on RaidForums on June 6, 2020, but the initial sale...

Clubhouse denies it was ‘breached’ and says the data is out there for anyone to grab. Clubhouse, the startup invitation-only chat app, is the latest social-media platform to see mammoth troves of user data collected and posted in underground forums. An SQL file containing the personal data of 1.3 million Clubhouse users has been posted in a hacker forum for free. Names, user IDs, photo URL, number of followers, Twitter and Instagram handles, dates that accounts were created and even the pro...

minute read Share this article: The flaw that caused the leak of personal data of more than 533 million users over the weekend no longer exists; however, the social media giant still faces an investigation by EU regulators. The leak of personal data from more than 533 million Facebook users was scraped from their profiles by malicious actors because of a security flaw in the company’s platform prior to September 2019, the social media giant said Tuesday. Threat actors posted that...

minute read Share this article: An estimated 32 million, of the half-billion of Facebook account details posted online, were tied to US-based accounts. More than 533 million Facebook users had their personal information posted to a public hacker forum, a move that is raising concerns about an uptick in cybercrime leveraging the credentials. The publicly released Facebook user data is believed to be part of a 2019 “Add Friend” Facebook security bug exploited by hackers at the t...