Charlie Osborne reports: Perhaps, one day, the continual stream of data leaks and cybersecurity breaches stemming from open databases will make organizations sit up, take notice, check their IT infrastructure, and resolve any security problems they find. Today is not that day it seems for DK-Lok, the latest entry in a long list of companies…
Category: Business Sector
A huge database of Facebook users’ phone numbers found online
Zack Whittaker reports: Hundreds of millions of phone numbers linked to Facebook accounts have been found online. The exposed server contained over 419 million records over several databases on users across geographies, including 133 million records on U.S.-based Facebook users, 18 million records of users in the U.K., and another with more than 50 million…
15 Chinese Arrested for Bribing Internet Café Administrators to Mine Crypto
Vincent He reports: Police in Henyang, a city of south-central China’s Hunan Province, has arrested fifteen men suspected of stealing electricity from Internet café to mine cryptocurrencies, according to a report by local media. During the past four months from June 2017 to July 2019, the cryptocurrencies they stole had been sold amounting to over hundred million yuan…
Teletext Data Breach Exposes Over 200,000 Customer Phone Call Recordings
Conor Reynolds reports: Package Holiday firm Truly Travels exposed over 200,000 customer phone call recordings and data files on a publicly accessible server. Over 530,000 data files were discovered in an unsecured Amazon Web Services server. Of these files 212,000 were audio files that held recordings of Teletext customers who had contacted the firms India-based…
Privacy Snafu Exposes UK Holidaymakers’ Data for Three Years
Phil Muncaster reports: The personal details of over 200,000 customers of a British holiday firm were left exposed in audio files for several years, according to a new report. Truly Travels, which trades under the name Teletext Holidays, is unusual in that consumers browse its website for package deals before completing their order over the…
Over 47,000 Supermicro servers are exposing BMC ports on the internet
Catalin Cimpanu reports: More than 47,000 workstations and servers, possibly more, running on Supermicro motherboards are currently open to attacks because administrators have left an internal component exposed on the internet. These systems are vulnerable to a new set of vulnerabilities named USBAnywhere that affect the baseboard management controller (BMC) firmware of Supermicro motherboards. Read…