DonaldDaters.com, a dating website for Donald Trump supporters, might want to consider changing its tagline from Make Dating Great Again to Make My Data Safe Again after a security researcher found the app exposed user information. Lonely heart Trump supporters may believe that some on the Left have thwarted their quest for romance to choosing…
A Facebook executive Friday said the company has “not ruled out the possibility of smaller, lower level access attempts during the time of the exposure,” but downgraded the number of users whose access tokens were stolen during the breach from 50 million to 30 million. The attackers, who “already controlled a set of accounts, which…
A trio of unprotected Elasticsearch servers hosted by Amazon Web Service (AWS) left 113.5 million records of fitness tracking company FitMetrix customers exposed, according to the security researcher who discovered the databases. The company, which creates software for the likes of SoulCycle and CrossFit, was acquired in February by wellness technology vendor Mindbody, failed to…
Taylor Swift’s recent endorsement of the Democratic senatorial candidate in Tennessee may have boosted voter registration – and caused sparks to fly from her fans on the other side of the aisle – but if the “Bad Blood” singer wants to make a difference in elections she might want to try to affect cybersecurity policy…
When John Brennan became director of the CIA in 2013, he set out to bust the silos and cultural blockades that prevented the smooth flow of information among agency groups and their partners around the world. Much has changed since then, Brennan said on Wednesday, as now government agencies are better able to connect data…
Former Trump Campaign Deputy Chairman Rick Gates sought proposals from an Israeli company on how to build online fake identities and influence voters on social media to aid the campaign. The company, Psy-Group, was also asked for a pitch on how to gather intelligence on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and her associates, the New…
Concerned that it would draw the ire of regulators and that its reputation would take a hit, Google hid a glitch that exposed the personal data of hundreds of thousands of users on Google+, which the company has now shuttered. Between 2015 and March 2015, profile data was accessible to third-party developers, but while Google…
After reports that China’s People Liberation Army (PLA) slipped microchips into Supermicro motherboards, creating a backdoor that could be used by hackers to obtain information stored on servers around the globe, both Apple and Amazon deny that their servers were affected. “On this we can be very clear: Apple has never found malicious chips, ‘hardware…
A microchip planted by China on Supermicro motherboards used by organizations, including the CIA, the U.S. military, Amazon and Apple, left sensitive information vulnerable to hacking and underscores the importance of locking down the security of the supply chain whose vast tentacles reach out to touch organizations around the globe. “It’s the equivalent of the…
The United States Capitol Police arrested a 27-year-old former Democratic congressional intern for doxxing at least one U.S. senator during recent testimony by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, who had accused him of sexual assault while the two were teenagers. Jackson A. Cosko, who last worked for Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee,…
