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Beijing Olympics App Flaws Allow Man-in-the-Middle Attacks
Information Security NewsThe mobile app that all attendees and athletes of the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics must use to manage communications and documentation at the event has a “devastating” flaw in the way it encrypts data that can allow for man-in-the-middle attacks that access sensitive user information, researchers have found. MY2022 is an app mandated for use […]
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Cloned Dept. of Labor Site Hawks Fake Government Contracts
Information Security NewsA new phishing campaign is targeting aspiring government vendors with an invitation to bid on various fake federal projects with the U.S. Department of Labor. Emails branded to look like legitimate communications from the DoL contain malicious links that, rather than leading to a government procurement portal, harvest the credentials of anyone who attempts to […]
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Open Subtitles – 6,783,158 breached accounts
Latest Data BreachesIn August 2021, the subtitling website Open Subtitles suffered a data breach and subsequent ransom demand. The breach exposed almost 7M subscribers' personal data including email and IP addresses, usernames, the country of the user and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes. Source
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Upstox – 111,002 breached accounts
Latest Data BreachesIn April 2021, Indian brokerage firm Upstox suffered a data breach. The incident exposed extensive personal information on over 100k customers including names, genders, dates of birth, physical addresses, banking information and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. Extensive “know your customer” information was also exposed including scans of bank statements, cheques and identity documents complete […]
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Will 2022 Be the Year of the Software Bill of Materials?
Information Security NewsHere, have a can of soup. Nah, we don’t know what’s in it. Could be 30 percent insect parts, could be seasoned with rat hair, who can say? The ingredients keep changing anyway. Just pour it into your network and pray. That, unfortunately, is the current state of cybersecurity: a teeth-grinding situation in which supply-chain […]
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