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Database error leaves 150 million voter records exposed online

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Jun

2016

More than 150 million U.S. voter records were available publicly due to a misconfigured database, a data firm confirmed Wednesday — the second such accidental exposure of voter data in six months. The records were compiled by the voter information brokerage L2, but were not leaked by L2. Chris Vickery, a security researcher at MacKeeper, […]

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Security Flaw in Truecaller Exposes Millions of Android Users

31

Mar

2016

Popular phone call management application Truecaller was discovered to pack a remotely exploitable security flaw that potentially impacts 100 million Android users, researchers at Cheetah Mobile Security Research Lab warn. The vulnerability provides attackers with the possibility to steal sensitive information pertaining to Truecaller users, which could open the door to further attacks, the researchers explain. With over […]

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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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