Note: The developers of NITE Team 4 granted the blog author access to the game plus DLC content. A little while ago, an online acquaintance of mine asked if a new video game based on hacking called NITE Team 4 was in any way realistic, or “doable” in terms of the types of hacking it portrayed (accounting for the necessary divergences from how things would work outside of a scripted, plot-goes-here … [Read more...]
June 7, 2019
June 5, 2019
Malwarebytes Labs wins best cybersecurity vendor blog at InfoSec’s European Security Blogger Awards
Infosec Europe is now well underway, and last night was the annual EU Security Blogger Awards, where InfoSecurity Magazine: …recognise[s] the best blogs in the industry as first nominated by peers and then judged by a panel of (mostly) respected industry experts. Malwarebytes Labs was announced as winner of the Best Cybersecurity Vendor Blog. We previously won best corporate security blog in … [Read more...]
June 3, 2019
Leaks and breaches: a roundup
It’s time for one of our semi-regular breach/data exposure roundup blogs, as the last few days have brought us a few monsters. If you use any of the below sites, or if you think some of your data has been sitting around exposed, we’ll hopefully give you a better idea of what the issue is. Seeing so many services be compromised or simply exposed for all to see without being secured is rather … [Read more...]
May 22, 2019
May 14, 2019
WhatsApp fix goes live after targeted attack on human rights lawyer
If you use WhatsApp, you’ll want to update both app and device as soon as possible due to a freshly-discovered exploit. The vulnerability was found in Google Android, Apple iOS, and Microsoft Windows Phone builds of the app. Unlike many mobile attacks, potential victims aren’t required to install or click on anything—they may not even be aware something malicious has taken place. This attack came … [Read more...]
May 1, 2019
Mysterious database exposed personal information of 80 million US households
Word has broken of yet another massive data trove exposed for anyone to see. A research team from vpnMentor discovered an exposed 24GB database hosted on a Microsoft cloud server containing the addresses, income levels, and marital statuses of users within 80 million US households. As we’ve seen recently, many organisations aren’t taking steps to secure their customer data and every so often one … [Read more...]
April 24, 2019
April 16, 2019
Hackers snab emails and more in Microsoft Outlook, Hotmail, and MSN compromise
Long-time users of certain Microsoft products, such as Hotmail, MSN, and Outlook found they may be wrapped up in a hack grabbing snippets of email information, and in some cases, a little bit more. Microsoft email services have been around forever in Internet time. Yet, many users still have a few Hotmail accounts rattling around. While most have long since moved on from MSN and Hotmail to Live … [Read more...]
April 15, 2019
March 27, 2019
Location data leaks from family tracking app database
An app called Family Locator, which allows family members to keep track of one another recently experienced an exposed database issue of the worst kind. Specifically: the MongoDB database was left exposed with no password, like so many other recent infosec tales of woe. The end result is the location of about 280,000 users leaking in real time. For a location tracking app that also includes … [Read more...]
