Cybersecurity Highlights

Data stolen from 3.7 million Hong Kong voters

The Hong Kong Register and Election Office has confirmed that on 28 March, after the Chief Executive election, two laptops containing personal data of 3.7 million voters disappeared. The police are...

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scmp.com

cnet.com

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qore.com

cronicaglobal.elespanol.com

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British intelligence agency warns of possible cyber attacks against its political system

Britain's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) had contacted the main political parties in the country to warn them of potential hostile actions against the British political system, citing...

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reuters.com

securityweek.com

telegraph.co.uk

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Public administration

Information leakage

Cyberespionage

Wikileaks filters the CIA's cyberespionage program details

Wikileaks has begun to publish under the title "Vault 7" material relative to the supposed program of cybersespionage of the CIA, which describes sophisticated software tools and advanced...

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wikileaks.org

nytimes.com

theguardian.com

foxnews.com

xataka.com

lavanguardia.com

hipertextual.com

eldiario.es

internacional.elpais.com

foxnews.com

okdiario.com

eldiario.es

actualidad.rt.com

cbsnews.com

genbeta.com

wikileaks.org

clipset.20minutos.es

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Hundreds of vBulletin forums hacked

A hacker has posted on Twitter being the author of the theft and dissemination of data from more than 800,000 online forums user accounts based on vBulletin. Among the information stolen would be...

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scmagazine.com

hackread.com

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Smart plush toys leaked data from 800,000 families

The stuffed animals of the Cloud Pets brand are linked to a mobile application that allows parent-child communication. Through this utility parents can record their voice and make the plush play it...

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motherboard.vice.com

eldiario.es

tekcrispy.com

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Information leakage

Incident

Internet

Security breach at Stewart International Airport in New York

Chris Vickery, a senior investigator at the MacKeeper Security Center, has released details of a security breach found in Stewart Airport backup systems. According to Vickery more than 700 GB of...

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mackeeper.com

engadget.com

zdnet.com

ibtimes.co.uk

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Information leakage

Transport

4 million websites affected by Cloudflare data leakage

Pages such as Fitbit, Uber, Thepiratebay, Change.org or Forocoches, have been affected by the data leakage incident happened in the North American CDN, Cloudflare. This incident has affected the...

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blog.cloudflare.com

github.com

computerhoy.com

eleconomista.es

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Information leakage

Incident

Internet

The third Yahoo! account hacking affects 32 million users

According to the report issued by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, 32 million Yahoo! user accounts have been hacked through a so-called cookie-forging attack. This attack...

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adslzone.net

hipertextual.com

genbeta.com

news.softpedia.com

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Internet

2.5 million Xbox and PlayStation players hacked accounts

Two years later the security gap in the Xbox360 ISO and PSP ISO forums, that allows the theft of the 2.5 million account credentials of registered players in these forums, comes to light.These are...

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telegraph.co.uk

cnet.com

computerhoy.com

genbeta.com

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Cybercrime

Information leakage

Incident

180.000 users data leaked from The Candid Board website

The online news publication International Business Times confirms in one of its publications they have received data from 180,000 user accounts of the voyeuristic web The Candid Board.Data stolen...

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ibtimes.co.uk

haveibeenpwned.com

thesun.co.uk

genbeta.com

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