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Viacom Left Sensitive Data And Secret Access Key On Unsecured Amazon Server

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Viacom—the popular entertainment and media company that owns Paramount Pictures, Comedy Central, MTV, and hundreds of other properties—has exposed the keys to its kingdom on an unsecured Amazon S3 server.

A security researcher working for California-based cyber resiliency firm UpGuard has recently discovered a wide-open, public-facing misconfigured Amazon Web Server S3 cloud storage bucket

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Vevo Music Video Service Hacked — 3.12TB of Internal Data Leaked

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OurMine is in headlines once again—this time for breaching the popular video streaming service Vevo.

After hunting down social media accounts of HBO and defacing WikiLeaks website, the infamous self-proclaimed group of white hat hackers OurMine have hacked Vevo and leaked about 3.12 TB worth of internal files.

Vevo is a joint venture between Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group,

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Facebook slapped with $1.43 million fine for violating users’ privacy in Spain

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Facebook is once again in trouble regarding its users’ privacy.

The social media giant has recently been heavily fined once again for a series of privacy violations in Spain.

Recently, Google also incurred a record-breaking fine of $2.7 billion (€2.42 billion) by the European antitrust officials for unfairly manipulating search results since at least 2008.
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Hacker Who Hacked US Spy Chief, FBI & CIA Director Gets 5-Year in Prison

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Remember “Crackas With Attitude”?

The hacking group behind a series of embarrassing hacks that targeted personal email accounts of senior officials at the FBI, the CIA, and the White House, among other United States federal agencies in 2015.

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European Companies Must Tell Employees If Their Work Emails Are Being Monitored

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Finally, European companies must inform employees in advance if their work email accounts are being monitored.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Tuesday gave a landmark judgement concerning privacy in the workplace by overturning an earlier… Continue reading European Companies Must Tell Employees If Their Work Emails Are Being Monitored→

Chinese Man Jailed For Selling VPNs that Bypass Great Firewall

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In an effort to continue its crackdown on VPNs, Chinese authorities have arrested a 26-year-old man for selling VPN software on the Internet.

China’s Supreme Court has sentenced Deng Jiewei from Dongguan in Guangdong province… Continue reading Chinese Man Jailed For Selling VPNs that Bypass Great Firewall→

Oops! WikiLeaks Website Defaced By OurMine

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OurMine is in headlines once again—this time for defacing WikiLeaks website.

The notorious hacking group, OurMine, is known for breaching into high-profile figures and companies’ social media accounts, including Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, HBO, Game of Thrones and Sony’s PlayStation Network (PSN).
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Someone Hacked Selena Gomez Instagram, Shared Nude Justin Bieber Photos

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The highest followers account on Instagram owned by Selena Gomez has recently been hacked with unknown hackers posting a bunch of nude photographs of her ex-boyfriend Justin Bieber on her account.

The latest hack is not part of the ongoing Fappening e… Continue reading Someone Hacked Selena Gomez Instagram, Shared Nude Justin Bieber Photos→

China Enforces Real-Name Policy to Regulate Online Comments

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If you reside in China, your Internet life within the borders will soon be even more challenging.

Last Friday, China’s top Internet regulator announced a new set of rules that would force citizens to post comments using their real-world identities on … Continue reading China Enforces Real-Name Policy to Regulate Online Comments→

The Pirate Bay Founders Ordered to Pay Music Labels $477,800 in Compensation

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Two of the three co-founders of The Pirate Bay—Fredrik Neij and Gottfrid Svartholm Warg—have been ordered by a Finnish court to pay record labels $477,800 in compensation for copyright infringement on the site.

Last year in a similar case, Helsinki District Court in Finland ordered Peter Sunde, the third co-founder of The Pirate Bay, to pay nearly $395,000 (350,000 Euros) in damages to

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