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Leaked: Docs cataloguing CIA’s frightening hacking capabilities
WikiLeaks has released 8,761 documents and files they claim originate from the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) – more specifically, from an “isolated, …
Secure comms app Signal now offers encrypted video calls
Users of secure chat and voice call app Signal will soon be able to enjoy the option of encrypted video calls. For the moment, only calls between Signal users who have both …
Five ways to prevent data leaks
The story still strikes fear into the hearts of IT departments: As many as 70 million credit- and debit card accounts were compromised in less than a month during the Target …
Anti-piracy tech firm Denuvo inadvertently leaks sensitive info
Denuvo Software Solutions has suffered an embarrassing and potentially damaging information leak. Denuvo is an Austrian company well known for its anti-tamper technology and …
Shadow Brokers say goodbye, leak a batch of Windows hacking tools
The Shadow Brokers, a group (?) of hackers that has made a big splash in August last year by leaking and offering for sale exploits supposedly stolen from the infamous …
Dailymotion urges users to reset passwords in wake of possible breach
Breach notification service LeakedSource has added information about over 87 million Dailymotion users to its search index. The information includes 87+ million email …
Europol terrorism investigations data found exposed online
700 pages of confidential dossiers, which included details about terrorism investigations in Europe, have been found exposed on the Internet by the reporters of Dutch TV …
8 million GitHub profiles scraped, data found leaking online
Technology recruitment site GeekedIn has scraped 8 million GitHub profiles and left the information exposed in an unsecured MongoDB database. The backup of the database was …
Compromised: 339 million AdultFriendFinder users
Friend Finder Networks, the company that operates sites like Adultfriendfinder.com (“World’s largest sex & swinger community”), and Cams.com …
Millions of job seekers’ info exposed via easily accessible database backups
A data leak has exposed sensitive information about millions of job seekers that used global recruitment firm Michael Page. The leak has once again been revealed to the …
Australian blood donors’ info found leaking from insecure server
Personal information of some 550,000 Australian blood donors has been sitting exposed on a web developer’s server and has been downloaded by a person who effectively …
Clinton campaign chief’s Twitter, iCloud accounts hijacked
Some 12 hours after WikiLeaks published emails stolen from the email account of Hillary Clinton campaign Chairman John Podesta, someone has hijacked the man’s Twitter …