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FBI Seizes Domain That Sold Info Stolen in Data Breaches
Dark Reading Staff, Quick Hits
The website, WeLeakData.com, claimed to have more than 12 billion records gathered from over 10,000 breaches.
By Dark Reading Staff , 1/17/2020
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CCPA Kickoff: What Businesses Need to Know
Kelly Sheridan, Staff Editor, Dark ReadingNews
The California Consumer Privacy Act is in full effect, prompting organizations to think about how they'll remain compliant.
By Kelly Sheridan Staff Editor, Dark Reading, 1/2/2020
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'Honoring' CCPA's Binding Principles Nationally Won't Be Easy
Dr. Salvatore Stolfo, Founder & CTO, Allure SecurityCommentary
Even companies with the reach, capital, and innovative capacity of Microsoft or Google will struggle to adhere to the tenets of California's new consumer privacy law.
By Dr. Salvatore Stolfo Founder & CTO, Allure Security, 12/26/2019
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Ambiguity Around CCPA Will Lead to a Slow Start in 2020
Anurag Kahol, CTO, BitglassCommentary
But longer term, compliance to California's new privacy law represents an opportunity for companies to increase customer trust and market share.
By Anurag Kahol CTO, Bitglass, 12/20/2019
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15 Million Patient Records Exposed Attack on Canadian Lab
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A cyberattack against LifeLabs exposed personal information on patients in Ontario and British Columbia.
By Dark Reading Staff , 12/17/2019
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Data Security Startup Satori Cyber Launches with $5.25M Seed Round
Kelly Sheridan, Staff Editor, Dark ReadingNews
Satori Cyber aims to help businesses better protect and govern their information with its Secure Data Access Cloud.
By Kelly Sheridan Staff Editor, Dark Reading, 12/17/2019
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SQL Server 2019 Tool Tells Attackers Which Data Is Sensitive
Kelly Sheridan, Staff Editor, Dark ReadingNews
The design of SQL Data Discovery & Classification could let attackers pinpoint sensitive information while flying under organizations' radars.
By Kelly Sheridan Staff Editor, Dark Reading, 12/16/2019
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The Implications of Last Week's Exposure of 1.2B Records
Kelly Sheridan, Staff Editor, Dark ReadingNews
Large sums of organized data, whether public or private, are worth their weight in gold to cybercriminals.
By Kelly Sheridan Staff Editor, Dark Reading, 11/26/2019
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1.2B Records Exposed in Massive Server Leak
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A single server leaked 4 terabytes of personal data, including social media profiles, work histories, and home and mobile phone numbers.
By Dark Reading Staff , 11/22/2019
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Disney+ Credentials Land in Dark Web Hours After Service Launch
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The credentials, priced from free to $11 per account, appear to be due to victims' re-use of logins and passwords.
By Dark Reading Staff , 11/18/2019
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Joker's Stash Puts $130M Price Tag on Credit Card Database
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A new analysis advises security teams on what they should know about the underground payment card seller.
By Dark Reading Staff , 11/11/2019
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California DMV Leak Spills Data from Thousands of Drivers
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Federal agencies reportedly had improper access to Social Security data belonging to 3,200 license holders.
By Dark Reading Staff , 11/6/2019
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Database Error Exposes 7.5 Million Adobe Customer Records
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The database was open for approximately one week before the problem was discovered.
By Dark Reading Staff , 10/28/2019
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FBI Expands Election Security Initiative
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The program offers resources and advice to help protect elections at every level within the US.
By Dark Reading Staff , 10/24/2019
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20M Russians' Personal Tax Records Exposed in Data Leak
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An unprotected Elasticsearch cluster contained personally identifiable information on Russian citizens from 2009 to 2016.
By Dark Reading Staff , 10/3/2019
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One Arrested in Ecuador's Mega Data Leak
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Officials arrest a leader of consulting firm Novaestrat, which owned an unprotected server that exposed 20.8 million personal records.
By Dark Reading Staff , 9/18/2019
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24.3M Unsecured Health Records Expose Patient Data, Images
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Several hundred servers storing medical data are connected to the Internet without any protection for sensitive information and images.
By Dark Reading Staff , 9/18/2019
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US Companies Unprepared for Privacy Regulations
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US companies are poorly prepared for even the most rudimentary privacy regulations, a new report says.
By Dark Reading Staff , 9/17/2019
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Oracle Expands Cloud Security Services at OpenWorld 2019
Kelly Sheridan, Staff Editor, Dark ReadingNews
The company broadens its portfolio with new services developed to centralize and automate cloud security.
By Kelly Sheridan Staff Editor, Dark Reading, 9/16/2019
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Data Leak Affects Most of Ecuador's Population
Kelly Sheridan, Staff Editor, Dark ReadingNews
An unsecured database containing 18GB of data exposed more than 20 million records, most of which held details about Ecuadorian citizens.
By Kelly Sheridan Staff Editor, Dark Reading, 9/16/2019
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CVE-2020-5397
PUBLISHED: 2020-01-17
Spring Framework, versions 5.2.x prior to 5.2.3 are vulnerable to CSRF attacks through CORS preflight requests that target Spring MVC (spring-webmvc module) or Spring WebFlux (spring-webflux module) endpoints. Only non-authenticated endpoints are vulnerable because preflight requests should not incl...
CVE-2019-17635
PUBLISHED: 2020-01-17
Eclipse Memory Analyzer version 1.9.1 and earlier is subject to a deserialization vulnerability if an index file of a parsed heap dump is replaced by a malicious version and the heap dump is reopened in Memory Analyzer. The user must chose to reopen an already parsed heap dump with an untrusted inde...
CVE-2019-19339
PUBLISHED: 2020-01-17
It was found that the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 kpatch update did not include the complete fix for CVE-2018-12207. A flaw was found in the way Intel CPUs handle inconsistency between, virtual to physical memory address translations in CPU's local cache and system software's Paging structure entries...
CVE-2007-6070
PUBLISHED: 2020-01-17
** REJECT ** DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultIDs: CVE-2008-1382. Reason: This candidate is a reservation duplicate of CVE-2008-1382. Notes: All CVE users should reference CVE-2008-1382 instead of this candidate. All references and descriptions in this candidate have been removed to prevent ...
CVE-2019-17634
PUBLISHED: 2020-01-17
Eclipse Memory Analyzer version 1.9.1 and earlier is subject to a cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerability when generating an HTML report from a malicious heap dump. The user must chose todownload, open the malicious heap dump and generate an HTML report for the problem to occur. The heap dump could...