Collaborate Disseminate
A journalist/researcher team got a sensitive database taken down after the vendor responsible failed to acknowledge a problem. Continue reading Family tracking app spilled pics, names and real-time location data
A recently-disclosed vulnerability in the Docker containerisation platform is being exploited by cybercriminals to mine the Monero (XMR) cryptocurrency on hundreds of servers. Continue reading Monero cryptominers hijack hundreds of unpatched Docker hosts
A company with access to the Dow Jones Watchlist of risky people and businesses left it on a public AWS server without a password. Continue reading Dow Jones Watchlist of risky businesses exposed on public server
How Shodan takes screenshots from some webcam even if this webcam (IP adress) requires login?
And how can I protect this? I can’t have some thing on LAN network, because I need to join to it from far away location.
Information about more than 14 million Instagram accounts is being kept in an insecure database that could render users vulnerable to hackers, a security researcher told CyberScoop Friday. Data including users’ profile names, stored links to profile pictures and their Instagram ID is available in the database, which researcher Oliver Hough found on the Shodan web scanning service. The database, physically located in the U.K., includes 14,526,602 entries, according to a screenshot Hough tweeted Friday. Entries also have empty fields for home addresses and telephone numbers, he said. It’s not clear who is logging the information. But Hough suggested a third party could be scraping Instagram and storing public data for analysis later, either for targeted marketing or another purpose. He suggested the information could be combined with unrelated databases of stolen passwords, which hackers could correlate with the usernames leaked here to try to infiltrate victims’ accounts. “On the black hat side […]
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Japan will hack citizens’ IoT devices to mop up cyber security before the Olympics. Don’t like the notion? Here’s how to lock ’em down! Continue reading Japanese government will try to hack its citizens’ IOT devices
via Zack Whittaker, writing at TechCrunch, comes this superb reportage tackling an amusing new psuedo-game using Shodan output as the source platform to feed a Twitter feed monikered Shodan Safari. In which, users are permnited to heckle the owners of… Continue reading Shodan Safari: The Heckling
Oklahoma’s Department of Securities (ODS) exposed 3TB of files in plain text containing sensitive data on the public internet this month. Continue reading State agency exposes 3TB of data, including FBI info and remote logins
VOIPO acknowledged that a development server had been accidentally left publicly accessible, and took the server offline. Continue reading VOIPO Database Exposes Millions of Texts, Call Logs
First they came for your printer… and then they came for your Chromecast – learn how to tighten up your router security. Continue reading Don’t fall victim to the Chromecast hackers – here’s what to do