Collaborate Disseminate
You’re listening to the Shared Security Podcast, exploring the trust you put in people, apps, and technology…with your host, Tom Eston. In episode 85 for September 9th 2019: Firefox will now block all third-party tracking cookies and more b… Continue reading New Firefox Privacy Protections, Apple iOS Zero-Days, Facebook User Phone Numbers Exposed
Tens of thousands of records with financial data were left in plaintext in a database that wasn’t protected with a password. Continue reading Massive MoviePass database found exposed on public server
The personal email addresses – some indicating user names or government official status – of more than a million pornography website users were exposed. Continue reading Adult Content Site Exposed Personal Data of 1M Users
Researchers exploit a SQLite memory corruption issue outside of a browser. Continue reading DEF CON 2019: New Class of SQLite Exploits Open Door to iPhone Hack
Millions of records containing personal information and medical insurance data were exposed by a database belonging to insurance marketing website MedicareSupplement.com. Continue reading MongoDB Leak Exposed Millions of Medical Insurance Records
When it comes to a cloud success story, Snowflake checks all the boxes. It’s a SaaS product going after industry giants. It has raised bushels of cash and grown extremely rapidly — and the story is continuing to develop for the cloud data lake company. In September, Snowflake’s co-founder and president of product Benoit Dageville […] Continue reading Snowflake co-founder and president of product Benoit Dageville is coming to TC Sessions: Enterprise
It is hard to remember that practical computers haven’t been around for even a century, yet. Modern computers have been around an even shorter period. Yet somehow people computed tables, kept ledgers, and even wrote books without any help from computers at all. Sometimes they just used brute force but …read more
Apollo, a San Francisco-based startup that provides a number of developer and operator tools and services around the GraphQL query language, today announced that it has raised a $22 million growth funding round co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Matrix Partners. Existing investors Trinity Ventures and Webb Investment Network also participated in this round. Today, Apollo […] Continue reading Apollo raises $22M for its GraphQL platform
Tens of millions of records about users of different dating apps have been discovered in a single database that doesn’t include any password protection, according to new research findings. The records discovered by researcher Jeremiah Fowler mostly were about American users, based on accessible IP addresses and geolocation information. Other data included age, location and account names — a roadmap Fowler followed to identify users across multiple other platforms and dating apps to verify they were real. A sampling of 10,000 users revealed that 8,063 were from the U.S., 356 were from the U.K., 219 from Canada and 151 from Australia and other random English-speaking countries, he said in an email to CyberScoop. About 42.5 million records were exposed, Fowler said. Dating logs made up 38.3 million records, while 3.87 million consisted of “geonames,” Fowler said. He did not reveal the location of the database, which uses the Elastic format. While it’s not clear […]
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Amazingco, an events planning firm, exposed 212,220 records with personal data relating to children’s parties, wine tours and more. Continue reading 200k Personal Records Exposed by Events Planning Firm