Website Security Breach Exposes 1 Million DNA Profiles
A genealogy website used to catch one of California’s most wanted serial killers remained shut down Thursday after a security breach exposed the DNA...
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COVID-19 fuels cyber attacks, exposes gaps in business recovery
The majority of businesses worldwide have seen a jump in cyber attacks as a result of employees working from home, with most reporting an...
V Shred data leak exposes PII, sensitive photos of fitness customers and trainers
Fitness brand V Shred exposed the personally identifiable information (PII) of over 99,000 customers and trainers — and has yet to fully resolve the...
Brazil’s Biggest Cosmetic Brand Natura Exposes Personal Details of Its Users
Brazil’s biggest cosmetics company Natura accidentally left hundreds of gigabytes of its customers’ personal and payment-related information publicly accessible online that could have been...
New Bluetooth Vulnerability Exposes Billions of Devices to Hackers
Academics from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) disclosed a security vulnerability in Bluetooth that could potentially allow an attacker to spoof a remotely...
On the three-year anniversary of WannaCry, US exposes new North Korean malware
Today, US cyber-security officials have published details about three malware strains that have been used by North Korea’s government-sponsored hackers to attack targets all...
Unpatchable ‘Starbleed’ Bug in FPGA Chips Exposes Critical Devices to Hackers
A newly discovered unpatchable hardware vulnerability in Xilinx programmable logic products could allow an attacker to break bitstream encryption, and clone intellectual property, change...
Starbleed: Flaw in FPGA Chips Exposes Safety-Critical Devices to Attacks
A potentially serious vulnerability discovered by researchers in Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) chips can expose many mission- and safety-critical devices to attacks. FPGAs...
SCUF Gaming Exposes Data on 1.1 Million Customers
Video game peripherals maker SCUF Gaming recently exposed to the web a database containing information on more than 1.1 million users. The database appears...
Unpatched Flaw in Discontinued Plugin Exposes WordPress Sites to Attacks
A stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Contact Form 7 Datepicker WordPress plugin will not receive a patch, leaving websites exposed to attacks,...