The personal data of 66,000 users was left wide open on a misconfigured Elasticsearch server, joining a growing list of companies with leaky clouds. [...]

Cook County, Ill., home to Chicago, has left a database exposed since at least September that contained sensitive criminal and family-court records. [...]

The ShinyHunters hacking group offer a raft of information, from location and contact info to dating preferences and bodily descriptions, as a free download. [...]

No one who reads this blog regularly will be surprised : A former employee of prominent home security company ADT has admitted that he hacked into the surveillance feeds of dozens of customer homes, doing so primarily to spy on naked women or to leer at unsuspecting couples while they …

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images / Aurich Lawson) A home security technician has admitted he repeatedly broke into cameras he installed and viewed customers engaging in sex and other intimate acts. Telesforo Aviles, a 35-year-old former employee of home and small office security company ADT, said that over a five-year period …

A former ADT employee pleads guilty of accessing customers’ cameras so he could spy on them. [...]

Enlarge / The query window for username and password on a webpage can be seen on the monitor of a laptop. (credit: Jens Büttner/picture alliance via Getty Images ) Criminals behind a recent phishing scam had assembled all the important pieces. Malware that bypassed antivirus—check. An email template that …

A phishing campaign spoofs Xerox notifications to lure victims into clicking on malicious HTML attachments. [...]

Mystery of spying using popular chat apps uncovered by Google Project Zero researcher. [...]

Expert panel awards dubious honors to 2021 Consumer Electronics Show’s biggest flops, including security and privacy failures. [...]

Expert panel awards dubious honors to 2021 Consumer Electronics Show’s biggest flops, including security and privacy failures. [...]

We all know that our cell phones constantly give our location away to our mobile network operators; that’s how they work. A group of researchers has figured out a way to fix that. “Pretty Good Phone Privacy” (PGPP) protects both user identity and user location using the existing …

Judge bars former Tallahassee city ethics officer from internet-connected devices after her arrest for cyberstalking. [...]

The optional feature was released free to users in a technical preview this week, adding a new layer of security to service, which has been plagued by privacy concerns. [...]

The company announced accounts for ages 13-15 will default to privacy setting, among other safety measures. [...]

Security teams are preparing for the inevitable return to the workplace - and the privacy implications of exposure notification apps that companies may need to adopt. [...]

WhatsApp aimed to clear the air about its updated privacy policy after reports of mandatory data sharing with Facebook drove users to Signal and Telegram in troves. [...]

A cloud misconfig by SocialArks exposed 318 million records gleaned from Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn. [...]

A researcher scraped and archived public Parler posts before the conservative social networking service was taken down by Amazon, Apple and Google. [...]

If you’re a WhatsApp user, pay attention to the changes in the privacy policy that you’re being forced to agree with. In 2016, WhatsApp gave users a one-time ability to opt out of having account data turned over to Facebook. Now, an updated privacy policy is changing …

The messaging platform will update its privacy platform on Feb. 8 to integrate further with its parent company, prompting users to cry foul over privacy issues. [...]

Where did the last month go? Were you able to catch all of the sessions in the Security, Identity, and Compliance track you hoped to see at AWS re:Invent? If you missed any, don’t worry—you can stream all the sessions released in 2020 via the AWS …

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images ) If you’re using an Android device—or in some cases an iPhone—the Telegram messenger app makes it easy for hackers to find your precise location when you enable a feature that allows users who are geographically close to you to connect. The researcher …

The "People Nearby" feature in the secure messaging app can be abused to unmask a user's precise location, a researcher said. [...]

Researcher discovered info of 35 million credit-card users from an attack on the Indian startup, which handles payments for numerous online marketplaces. [...]