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This Cybersecurity Firm Listens to the Background ‘Noise’ of the Internet

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The internet is a bustling place, with hackers constantly firing exploits against whoever they can. Cybersecurity firm GreyNoise is trying to filter out some of that noise. Continue reading This Cybersecurity Firm Listens to the Background ‘Noise’ of the Internet→

PewDiePie fan hacker compromise 100,000 printers

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By Waqas
A couple of weeks ago, a hacker going by the online handle of TheHackerGiraffe hacked over 50,000 printers for the sake of promoting PewDiePie’s YouTube channel and urging users to subscribe to his channel. Now, the same hacker has struck agai… Continue reading PewDiePie fan hacker compromise 100,000 printers→

Private data of more than 82 million US citizens left exposed

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By Uzair Amir
Misconfigured ElasticSearch Servers Exposed Private Data of over 82 Million Users. A warning has been issued by Bob Diachenko, a HackenProof security researcher informing users in the US that around 73 gigabytes of data is identified in a… Continue reading Private data of more than 82 million US citizens left exposed→

Data about 57 million people exposed by Elasticsearch servers

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A data breach involving Elasticsearch search-engine technology exposed the personal information of nearly 57 million people for at least two weeks, according to report released Wednesday by the cybersecurity organization Hacken. The breach exposed 73 gigabytes of data as early as Nov. 14, Hacken said, including the names, employers, job titles, emails, addresses, phone numbers and IP addresses of 56,934,021 U.S. residents. There was a separate cache of data titled “Yellow Pages,” the report said, with 25 million records about businesses, including information such as names, company details, zip addresses, latitude/longitude, census tract, phone numbers, web addresses, emails, revenue numbers and more. Hacken said it was unclear where the leak originated, but the formatting of the data appeared to have similarities to fields used by Canadian data management company Data & Leads. The database is no longer exposing information to the public, Hacken said. Elasticsearch is an open-source tool intended to allow users to search data stored in private networks. The […]

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