Kaley Green reports: City of Amarillo employees’ personal information has been breached. Tuesday, the city learned the company conducting the required external audit had lost an encrypted flash drive containing sensitive payroll information. The audit is meant to make sure the city has no fraud in its payroll process, but now the personal information of…
Month: November 2018
A leaky database of SMS text messages exposed password resets and two-factor codes
Zack Whittaker reports: A security lapse has exposed a massive database containing tens of millions of text messages, including password reset links, two-factor codes, shipping notifications and more. The exposed server belongs to Voxox (formerly Telcentris), a San Diego, Calif.-based communications company. The server wasn’t protected with a password, allowing anyone who knew where to…
Media Prima Locked Out By Ransomware – 1,000 Bitcoins In Ransom Demanded: Report
Vijandren reports: Reports are emerging today that Media Prima Berhad, a public-listed Media powerhouse in Malaysia has had its systems locked out by a ransomware attack. The report, quoting an inside source by the Edge Financial Daily claims that “the whole Media Prima group’s computer systems have been breached and infected with a ransomware over…
Massive Data Leaks Keep Happening Because Big Companies Can Afford to Lose Your Data
Erik Sherman reports: If you live in the United States, there’s almost a 50 percent chance your personal data was lost in the giant Equifax data breach a year ago of 143 million records. Google had its own data breach in October this year that exposed data on as many as 500,000 accounts. Or the…
Hackers find a way to access deleted photos on iPhones running iOS 12
Gadgets Now reports: At the Mobile Pwn2Own event, being held in Tokyo, Japan, a couple of hackers successfully made use of an iOS 12.1 bug to access photos from an iPhone that have been deleted. As reported by Forbes, the hackers named Richard Zhu and Amat Cama teamed up as to use the loophole and…
Firefox Monitor 2.0 gives you desktop notifications if a site suffers a data breach
Natasha Lomas reports: Mozilla is adding a new security feature to its Firefox Quantum web browser that will alert users when they visit a website that has recently reported a data breach. When a Firefox user lands on a website with a breach in its recent past they’ll see a pop up notification informing them…