Around 32 million Sky Brasil subscriber records were reportedly exposed by an ElasticSearch server that had been left unsecured for more than a week. Security researchers Fabio Castro said that the unsecured server was found via Shodan, a search engine used for finding internet-connected devices. The...
Researchers from cybersecurity firm Digital Defense recently uncovered a bug in Nuuo surveillance cameras which can allow hackers to tamper with footages and live feeds. The zero-day vulnerability affects the Nuuo NVRmini 2 Network Video Recorder firmware, a software used by hundreds of thousands of...
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein made a strong statement this week which is believed to be a response against Apple and its stance on privacy. Rosenstein said that the public should not accept a culture in which technology companies consider it part of their responsibility to...
The Associated Press recently reported that more than 200 car manufacturers working in China, including Tesla, Volkswagen, BMW, Daimler, Ford, General Motors, Nissan, Mitsubishi and U.S.-listed electric vehicle startup NIO, are reportedly sending a significant number of data points and information back to government-run monitoring...
It was recently reported that Google did not follow standard procedure with regards to its Chinese search engine project and excluded its privacy and security teams from the review process. Google engineer Yonatan Zunger said that the company’s head of operations in China wanted the...
Executives from the “GAFA” group of tech giants were interviewed this week by a government panel composed of experts, representatives from the Japan Fair Trade Commission, and the trade and communications ministries to learn how the companies handle user information. The closed door hearing, which was...
Atrium Health recently confirmed that it has had a data breach in September which affected around 2.65 million patient records. The breach was caused by the company’s billing vendor AccuDoc Solutions. Atrium Health further revealed that a hacker had been able to access data including...
Hacken’s director of cyber risk research Bob Diachenko recently revealed that an unsecured ElasticSearch server had leaked the personal data of around 57 million US citizens. The server, which was left without a password, had exposed around 73GB worth of personal information for almost 2 weeks....
Earlier this week, Dunkin Donuts alerted its customers registered to the DD Perks Rewards program that their personal data might have been accessed by a hacker last month. The company clarified that the incident was not a breach, but rather a credential stuffing attack where credentials...
FTC Chairman Joseph J. Simons and Commissioners Noah Joshua Phillips, Rohit Chopra, Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Christine S. Wilson testified this week before the U.S. Senate Commerce Subcommittee on the agency’s work on various areas including data security. In a press release, the agency reiterated its...