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Blog January 23, 2019

Hundreds of VOIP Phone Databases Left Exposed No Password Needed and Ready to be Exploited

VOIP is Voice over Internet Protocol and just as the name suggests it allows for the delivery of voice communications and multimedia over the internet. As a security researcher I find lots of interesting things…

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Blog, Data Breach January 21, 2019

The World’s Largest Youth-Run Organization Had a Data Breach

On January 11th, Bob Diachenko of SecurityDiscovery.com, identified another unprotected Elasticsearch instance which contained millions of records – this time related to AIESEC, “the world’s largest youth-run organization. According to Wikipedia the AIESEC network has…

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Blog, Data Breach January 11, 2019

Indonesian Phone and Content Provider Tri.co.id Leaks Millions of Records Online

On December 1st 2018 Bob Diachenko found a misconfigured database that has publicly exposed millions of user contacts, SMS, and call records that appear to belong to Tri.co.id. With over 260 million total records this…

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Blog, Data Breach December 10, 2018

The Howard Hughes Corporation Leaks Database Passwords

Researchers from SecurityDiscovery.com have found a security flaw in an Apache Airflow instance which allows anybody with an internet connection to view database credentials. It appears that the instance belongs to the Howard Hughes Corporation….

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Blog, Data Breach December 5, 2018

Marriott Hotels Reservation Database Exposes Data of 500 Million Guests

More Data More Problems This data breach will go down in the history books, not for how many customers’ records were exposed, but for the way Marriott fumbled the disclosure and resolution process. It seems…

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Blog, Data Breach November 9, 2018

Children’s charity Kars4Kids leaks info on thousands of donors, internal passwords online, and evidence of a ransom attack.

Kars4Kids is a charity that asks people to donate their cars, motorcycles, RVs, and real estate. They are most known for their nationwide advertising using their hypnotic theme song where a child and a Johny…

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Hundreds of VOIP Phone Databases Left Exposed No Password Needed and Ready to be Exploited

The World’s Largest Youth-Run Organization Had a Data Breach

Indonesian Phone and Content Provider Tri.co.id Leaks Millions of Records Online

The Howard Hughes Corporation Leaks Database Passwords

Marriott Hotels Reservation Database Exposes Data of 500 Million Guests

Children’s charity Kars4Kids leaks info on thousands of donors, internal passwords online, and evidence of a ransom attack.