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Oyster card accounts locked with users asked to reset passwords 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- December 1, 2019
Oyster cards were introduced almost 20 years ago Oyster card users with online accounts have had their passwords reset by Transport for London – an indication that the August admission of a data breach might be far larger than originally suggested. … [ad_2] Source link
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Vuln hunters say hotel giant’s Autoclerk code exposed US soldiers’ info, travel plans, passwords… • The Register 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- October 23, 2019
A security team for review site vpnMentor, led by Israeli researchers Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, recently found a publicly accessible AWS-hosted database owned by Autoclerk, a reservation system recently acquired by Best Western Hotels and Resorts Group. The exposed database contained sensitive personal data for thousands of people around the globe, according to vpnMentor,
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Slack resets thousands of user passwords following 2015 data breach 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- July 18, 2019
Some might say the company has been, er slacking in the security department WORKPLACE CHAT OUTFIT Slack is resetting the passwords of thousands of users who had their details compromised in a 2015 data breach. Back in March 2015, Slack admitted that hackers had gained unauthorized access to a database storing user profile information, including
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Who left a database of emails, credit cards, plain-text passwords, and more open to the web this week? Tech Data, come on down! • The Register 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- June 6, 2019
IT gear distributor Tech Data is the latest company to expose an insecure database, jam packed with personal and sensitive information, to the public internet for anyone to rifle through. A team at network security outfit vpnMentor was scanning cyber-space as part of a web-mapping project when they happened upon a Graylog management server belonging
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Facebook stored ‘hundreds of millions’ of passwords in plain text 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- March 24, 2019
Facebook has admitted to storing ‘some‘ user passwords in a plain text file readily accessible by staff, later clarifying ‘some‘ to mean ‘hundreds of millions‘. In a security notification penned by vice-president of engineering, security, and privacy Pedro Canahuati and embarrassingly entitled ‘Keeping Passwords Secure‘, Facebook has confirmed that ‘as part of a routine security
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Facebook has been storing ‘hundreds of millions’ of user passwords in plaintext 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- March 22, 2019
Facebook suffers yet another security screw-up THE SOCIAL NETWORK Facebook stored the passwords of hundreds of million users in plaintext for as long as seven years, KrebsOnSecurity has revealed. According to security researcher Brian Krebs, who got the scoop via an unnamed senior Facebook employee, an internal investigation at the company recently found that staffers had been building applications that logged
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