Researchers at VPN advisory company vpnMentor have found yet another online data exposure caused by a misconfigured cloud database.
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Google suspends Xiaomi from Home Hub over camera privacy glitch
A user reported to Google that he was seeing images from other people’s devices.
Storing your stuff securely in the cloud
How much of our stuff is going to the cloud? Probably a lot more than you realize. Let’s look at the risks and how to mitigate them.
100 million online bets exposed by leaky database
Online gamblers lose their private data as yet another unsecured Elasticsearch database is discovered.
Domain flub leaves 30 million customers high and dry
Zoho’s CEO begged for help on Twitter after his domain registrar effectively took the company offline, stranding millions of users.
Madonna Hacker who leaked songs sentenced to 14 months
A 39-year-old Israeli man accused of hacking the pop star Madonna has been sentenced to 14 months in jail, after a reaching a plea agreement with authorities.
Dropbox stumbles over security and privacy of secret links
Another flaw in Dropbox was discovered this week. Users sharing documents using a secret link may have inadvertently been sharing the secret link with sites they linked to from shared files.