Online casino group leaks information on 108 million bets, including user detailsServer is now down but is unclear if the cloud provider took it down and if the parent company knows it leaked users details in the first place.January 21, 2019 by Catalin Cimpanu in Security
ElasticSearch server exposed the personal data of over 57 million US citizensLeaky database taken offline, but not after leaking user details for nearly two weeks.November 28, 2018 by Catalin Cimpanu in Security
Government shutdown: TLS certificates not renewed, many websites are downOver 80 government websites are down after TLS certificates expired and there's nobody on hand to renew them.January 11, 2019 by Catalin Cimpanu in Security
GitHub to replace 'master' with 'main' starting next monthAll new Git repositories on GitHub will be named "main" instead of "master" starting October 1, 2020.September 19, 2020 by Catalin Cimpanu in Developer
A hacker has wiped, defaced more than 15,000 Elasticsearch serversHacker tries to pin the blame on Night Lion Security, a US cyber-security firm.April 2, 2020 by Catalin Cimpanu in Security
German police ask router owners for help in identifying a bomber's MAC addressIn a first, German police asks router owners to comb logs for f8:e0:79:af:57:eb and report any sightings to authorities.January 9, 2019 by Catalin Cimpanu in Security
Experts: Don't reboot your computer after you've been infected with ransomwareRebooting may lead to restarting a crashed file-encryption process, potential loss of encryption keys stored in-memory.November 5, 2019 by Catalin Cimpanu in Security
Intel, Mozilla, Red Hat, and Fastly partner to make WebAssembly a cross-platform runtimeThe Bytecode Alliance's main goal is to promote the use of security-hardened WebAssembly tools.November 12, 2019 by Catalin Cimpanu in Security
Thunderclap flaws impact how Windows, Mac, Linux handle Thunderbolt peripheralsThunderclap vulnerabilities allow the creation of highly dangerous malicious peripherals that can steal data from OS memory.February 26, 2019 by Catalin Cimpanu in Security
Data of 24.3 million Lumin PDF users shared on hacking forumThe person who leaked the data claims it notified Lumin PDF earlier this year but got no reply.September 16, 2019 by Catalin Cimpanu in Security