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Defunct iPhone App Exposes Details of 198,000 Users

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Mar

2016

A researcher discovered an unprotected database storing the details of 198,000 users who had signed up for a now-defunct iOS application. A misconfigured MongoDB database associated with the iPhone app Kinotopic was discovered by Chris Vickery, a researcher who currently works at Kromtech, the company behind MacKeeper. Kinotopic, which allowed users to create and share […]

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IRS raises number of Get Transcript app breach victims yet again

01

Mar

2016

Remember when back in May 2015 the IRS took offline its Get Transcript app because it was misused by cyber-criminals to access sensitive personal information of more than 100,000 taxpayers? Well, the final number is much, much higher. In a statement released on Friday, the Internal Revenue Service said that “the Treasury Inspector General for […]

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Snapchat caught in phishing campaign

01

Mar

2016

We talk a lot about phishing and how dangerous it is. At times we feel like we may talk about it too much to where people simply say, “yeah, yeah. That will never happen to me, I am too smart to fall for that trick.” Well every time we start to believe that we’re safe, […]

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