Category: flaw

Twitter flaw let a researcher match 17 million phone numbers with users

Post author By Randall
Post date December 24, 2019
Categories In flaw, gear, Internet, Mobile, Privacy, Security, Social Media, social network, social networking, Tech, Twitter

[ad_1] The users were in countries like France, Greece and Turkey, and some of them were politicians and officials. TechCrunch found a senior Israeli politician, for instance. Balic didn’t notify Twitter, but did warn some users directly. Twitter blocked his effort on December 20th and hasn’t publicly acknowledged the flaw so far. We’ve asked Twitter […]

LastPass patched a bug that could have exposed your passwords

Post author By Randall
Post date September 16, 2019
Categories In bug, chrome, credentials, flaw, gear, Google, Internet, lastpass, leaked, malicious, Mobile, opera, password manager, patch, project zero, Security, Tech, update, vulnerability

[ad_1] Security researcher Tavis Ormandy, of Google’s Project Zero, notified LastPass of the bug. The flaw could have allowed hackers on malicious sites to access users’ credentials entered on the previous site. Fortunately, there’s no reason to believe the bug was exploited, and while it only impacted Chrome and Opera browsers, LastPass patched all browser […]

EA patched Origin security flaws that put millions of users at risk

Post author By Randall
Post date June 26, 2019
Categories In check point research, Cyberattack, cyberint, Cybersecurity, ea, ea games, flaw, Gaming, hijack, identity theft, Internet, online gaming, origin, patch, Security, Tech, vulnerabilities, vulnerability

[ad_1] The vulnerabilities took advantage of abandoned subdomains, EA Games’ use of authentication tokens and single sign-on and TRUST mechanisms built into the user login process. Had an attack been carried out, it could have been devastating, given that EA is the world’s second largest gaming company and millions of user accounts would have been […]

First American security flaw leaked 885 million real estate documents

Post author By Randall
Post date May 25, 2019
Categories In first american financial corporation, flaw, gear, Security, Tech

[ad_1] Due to the nature of its business, those files include a variety of sensitive information, including bank account numbers and statements, mortgage and tax records, Social Security numbers, wire transaction receipts and drivers license images. Ben Shoval, the real estate developer who discovered the vulnerability and who told Krebs about the issue, also said […]