Category: data leak

AMD CPUs for the past 9 years are vulnerable to data leak attacks

Post author By Randall
Post date March 8, 2020
Categories In amd, athlon 64 x2, cpu, data leak, exploit, gear, graz university of technology, Internet, personal computing, personalcomputing, processor, ryzen 7, Security, take a way, Tech, threadripper, vulnerability

[ad_1] Unlike some side channel attacks, it hasn’t taken long to show how these exploits would work in the real world. The team took advantage of the flaws using JavaScript in common browsers like Chrome and Firefox, not to mention virtual machines in the cloud. While Take A Way only dribbles out a small amount […]

Porn cam network leaked sensitive data for thousands of models

Post author By Randall
Post date January 16, 2020
Categories In amazon s3, cam model, camgirl, data leak, exposed, exposure, gear, imlive, Internet, porn, pornography, pussycash, s3, Security, Tech

[ad_1] Data leaks by their nature subject people to some kind of unnecessary risk, but this latest could be genuinely dangerous. Researchers at vpnMentor have discovered that a porn cam affiliate network, PussyCash, left nearly 20GB of models’ extremely sensitive data exposed in an Amazon S3 bucket. The repository included not only 875,000 keys for […]

Clothing resale site Poshmark suffers data breach

Post author By Randall
Post date August 2, 2019
Categories In data breach, data leak, Entertainment, hashed passwords, poshmark, Security, Tech, usernames

[ad_1] In response, Poshmark announced it conducted an internal investigation with support from a security forensics firm and “did not find any material vulnerabilities.” It has, however, “enhanced security measures across all systems to help prevent this type of incident from happening in the future.” In a blog post, Poshmark advises users to change their […]

Nearly 70 percent of hotel websites leak personal data, Symantec study finds

Post author By Randall
Post date April 10, 2019
Categories In data leak, Entertainment, gdpr, gear, hotel, hotel booking, Internet, online travel, Security, Tech, travel

[ad_1] The main issue involved booking confirmation emails, according to Symantec principal threat researcher Candid Wueest. Many of the messages include an active link that directs to a separate website where guests can access their reservation having to log in again. The booking code and the guest email are often in the URL itself, which […]