Security News
Researchers Discover Hundreds of Amazon RDS Instances Leaking Users' Personal Data
Hundreds of databases on Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) are exposing personal identifiable information (PII), new findings from Mitiga, a cloud incident response company, show.[...]
The Hacker News
17 Nov 2022 1774 Views
Twitter source code indicates end-to-end encrypted DMs are coming
Twitter is reportedly working on finally adding end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for direct messages (DMs) exchanged between users on the social media platform. [...]
Bleepingcomputer
17 Nov 2022 995 Views
Warning: New RapperBot Campaign Aims to Launch DDoS Attacks at Game Servers
Cybersecurity researchers have unearthed new samples of malware called RapperBot that are being used to build a botnet capable of launching Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against game servers.[...]
The Hacker News
17 Nov 2022 1270 Views
Critical RCE Flaw Reported in Spotify's Backstage Software Catalog and Developer Platform
Spotify's Backstage has been discovered as vulnerable to a severe security flaw that could be exploited to gain remote code execution by leveraging a recently disclosed bug in a third-party module.
The Hacker News
16 Nov 2022 1260 Views
Researchers Reported Critical SQLi and Access Flaws in Zendesk Analytics Service
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of now-patched flaws in Zendesk Explore that could have been exploited by an attacker to gain unauthorized access to information from customer accounts that have the feature turned on.
The Hacker News
16 Nov 2022 1214 Views
Australia Declares War on Cybercrime Syndicates
An international counter-ransomware task force has been announced by Australian authorities following the recent Optus and Medibank data breaches.
Dark Reading
15 Nov 2022 1262 Views
Google will pay $391M to settle Android location tracking lawsuit
Google has agreed to pay $391.5 million to settle a lawsuit filed by a coalition of attorneys general from 40 U.S. states alleging that the search giant tracked Android users' locations since at least 2014 even when they thought location tracking was disabled...
Bleepingcomputer
15 Nov 2022 1302 Views
Researchers Sound Alarm on Dangerous BatLoader Malware Dropper
BatLoader has spread rapidly to roost in systems globally, tailoring payloads to its victims.
Dark Reading
15 Nov 2022 1171 Views
Android phone owner accidentally finds a way to bypass lock screen
Cybersecurity researcher David Schütz accidentally found a way to bypass the lock screen on his fully patched Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 5 smartphones, enabling anyone with physical access to the device to unlock it. [...]
Bleepingcomputer
14 Nov 2022 2002 Views
New extortion scam threatens to damage sites’ reputation, leak data
An active extortion scam is targeting website owners and admins worldwide, claiming to have hacked their servers and demanding $2,500 not to leak data. [...]
Bleepingcomputer
14 Nov 2022 1250 Views
