Cybersecurity Highlights

This section registers the most relevant incidents or public events related to the cybersecurity and information and communication technologies (ICT), in a way that a chronological history of them is available, together with their main links, references and information sources.

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Security flaw in TikTok solved

Check Point cybersecurity researchers detected and reported a security flaw in the application of the popular social network TikTok.This flaw could have allowed cybercriminals to take control of...

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checkpoint.com

theverge.com

threatpost.com

globbsecurity.com

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Thai prison, Lang Suan, victim of a security incident

The Thai prison, Lang Suan, in Chumphon province, has suffered a cyberattack on its video surveillance system (Closed Circuit Television, CCTV) by dumping its video signal on YouTube for several...

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bangkokpost.com

welivesecurity.com

unaaldia.hispasec.com

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Flipboard suffered a security breach for 9 months

Flipboard has published a communiqué in which it explains that it has identified and solved a security incident that has affected its users' data. They indicate that they detected unauthorized...

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about.flipboard.com

itproportal.com

techradar.com

osi.es

elpais.com

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Information leakage

Social networks

Facebook accidentally saves passwords in plain text

Facebook has reported that, by mistake, it has been storing its users' passwords in plain text, although it has not provided details of this failure, it has confirmed that both Facebook and...

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newsroom.fb.com

motherboard.vice.com

genbeta.com

welivesecurity.com

unaaldia.hispasec.com

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Social networks

TikTok application fined for collecting children’s data

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced an agreement with the TikTok application (formerly Musical.ly) to pay a $5.7 million fine for violating the Children's Privacy Act because the...

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newsroom.tiktok.com

theverge.com

genbeta.com

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Information leakage

Social networks

An issue in Twitter turn off the option "Protect your Tweets" in some accounts

Twitter, in an official statement, has reported a security flaw that turn off the "Protect your Tweets" option for Android users who had made changes to their account settings, such as the...

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twitter.com

genbeta.com

hispasec.com

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Information leakage

Social networks

Personal data of German politicians filtered

Germany has suffered a leak of personal data of politicians, which has affected all parties represented in the government, except for the ultra-right Alternative Formation by Germany (AfD). Among...

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bsi.bund.de

elpais.com

blog.elhacker.net

lavanguardia.com

rtve.es

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Information leakage

Social networks

Facebook fixes a bug in the photo access API

Facebook's internal team discovered an error in the API for accessing photos that may have affected people who used Facebook login and granted permission to third-party applications to access their...

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developers.facebook.com

cyberscoop.com

edition.cnn.com

genbeta.com

20minutos.es

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Information leakage

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French cinema chain suffers CEO fraud

Following a lawsuit filed by the CFO of a Dutch branch of the French cinema chain Pathé, it has become public that the company has been the victim of scam known as the CEO fraud.Apparently, the CFO...

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forbes.com

databreachtoday.com

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Cybercrime

Incident

Social networks

FitMetrix data exposed on Elasticsearch servers

On October 5, 2018, security researcher Bob Diachenko discovered a database in FitMetrix's Elasticsearch with 119 GB of unsecured customer and gym facilities data. FitMetrix is a Mindbody-owned...

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linkedin.com

zdnet.com

techcrunch.com

threatpost.com

blog.segu-info.com.ar

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Incident

Information leakage

Social networks

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