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AWS S3 Buckets at Risk of “GhostWriter” MiTM Attack

06

Nov

2017

The exposure of sensitive data via misconfigured AWS S3 buckets has been regular over the last few years. In two months this summer, researchers discovered thousands of potentially sensitive files belonging to the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA); information on millions of Verizon customers; and a database containing details of 198 million American voters. Read […]

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South Africans exposed; 30 million unique records leaked

19

Oct

2017

A data leak exposed more than 30 million unique personal records of South Africans following an alleged breach that took place around May 2017, according to an investigation by security researcher Troy Hunt. Hunt received a 27GB file that, he believes, “is definitely floating around between traders.” Based on the headers published on Pastebin, the […]

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Pizza Hut waits two weeks to tell customers their card data was leaked

16

Oct

2017

Restaurant chain Pizza Hut was breached and waited two weeks before announcing its customers via email that it suffered a “temporary security intrusion.” Even before the announcement, users had reported on Twitter numerous fraudulent transactions from their accounts, suspecting a breach. A hacker is reported to have stolen names, billing ZIP codes, delivery addresses, email […]

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