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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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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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

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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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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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WhatsApp fixes a security issue in video calls

Natalie Silvanovich, security researcher at Google Project Zero, found a vulnerability in August 2018, reported later to WhatsApp, that could compromise an account by simply responding to a video...

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twitter.com

cnbc.com

thehackernews.com

nakedsecurity.sophos.com

bleepingcomputer.com

unaaldia.hispasec.com

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50 million Facebook users affected by vulnerability

On the afternoon of Tuesday, September 25, 2018, Facebook's engineering team discovered a security issue affecting almost 50 million accounts.Attackers exploited a vulnerability in Facebook that...

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newsroom.fb.com

businessinsider.es

xataka.com

elconfidencial.com

newsroom.fb.com

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Exposure of private messages because of an error in the Twitter API

Twitter has reported that it has discovered an error in its account activity API (AAAPI), used by registered developers to create tools that offer better support to companies and their...

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help.twitter.com

twitter.com

unaaldia.hispasec.com

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Google blocks accounts involved in disinformation campaigns

Kent Walker, SVP of Global Affairs at Google, has announced in a statement that 39 YouTube channels, 6 Blogger blogs and 13 Google+ accounts have been blocked following research conducted by the...

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blog.google

fireeye.com

twitter.com

newsroom.fb.com

foxnews.com

abc.es

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Social networks

A 20-year-old student steals $5 million in cryptocurrencies

A 20-year-old university student was arrested in Los Angeles, accused of operating nearly 50 phones at a Bitcoin conference and stealing $5 million in cryptocurrencies with the technique known as...

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bitcoinexchangeguide.com

techspot.com

infocoin.net

xataka.com

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Cybercrime

Social networks

Internal log of stored Twitter passwords of users in plain text

Twitter tells its users that they must modify the password to access the social network. As published by Parag Agrawal, CTO of Twitter, his team has identified an internal log that stored the...

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blog.twitter.com

lavanguardia.com

wired.com

elmundo.es

dailytelegraph.com.au

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Encryption

Social networks

Corporate access

Cybersecurity Highlights

Personal data of German politicians filtered

Facebook fixes a bug in the photo access API

French cinema chain suffers CEO fraud

FitMetrix data exposed on Elasticsearch servers

WhatsApp fixes a security issue in video calls

50 million Facebook users affected by vulnerability

Exposure of private messages because of an error in the Twitter API

Google blocks accounts involved in disinformation campaigns

A 20-year-old student steals $5 million in cryptocurrencies

Internal log of stored Twitter passwords of users in plain text

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