Tag: Sensitive Data
Google Agreed to Pay $9.5 Million Penalty in a Location Tracking Lawsuit
In a lawsuit accusing Google of deceptive practices, the company agreed to pay a fine of $9.5 million to the state and also tune...
US Lawmakers and Staff are Prohibited from Using TikTok
Regardless of how hard TikTok is trying to prove its innocence, the US government is going in full swing to ban it, citing security...
A Hacker is Selling Private Data of Over 400 Million Twitter Users
A threat actor is selling the Twitter data of 400+ million users in a hacking forum for about $60,000 per copy.
He claims to have...
RisePro: A New Info-Stealer Spreading Through PrivateLoader
Researchers at Flashpoint and Sekoia have discovered a new malware named RisePro, that can steal various information elements from a compromised system.
It's spread through...
Google is Making its Internal Video Blur Tool Open Source
Google is open-sourcing two of its Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) to let anyone freely process data without breaching the privacy of others.
One of the...
LastPass Customers’ Vault Data Breached in a Hack
LastPass today revealed that hackers had stolen customers' vault data in the breach that happened earlier this year - after previously stating that only...
US Passed a Bill to Ban TikTok on all the Government Devices
A US bill to ban the TikTok app on all government devices has passed a major milestone and is just one step away from...
S3crets Scanner: A Free Tool for Scanning Exposed Amazon S3 Buckets
To let red-teamers find the Amazon S3 buckets, a security researcher has made a tool called S3crets scanner for free.
Upon finding the exposed Amazon...
Sensitive Data of LAUSD Students Leaked by a Ransomware Gang
After declining to pay the ransom, the Vice Society Ransomware gang decided to publish the stolen data of Los Angeles Unified School District on...
FCC Warned US Citizens of Growing Smishing Attacks
Observing the rise in SMS-based phishing attacks against Americans, the FCC warned citizens to be on more alert to thwart them.
The first half of...