PornHub Hack Earns Researchers $22,000
Researchers found a serious vulnerability in PHP code that could have allowed hackers to gain access to porn site’s private user data.
Privacy
Threatpost News Wrap, July 15, 2016
Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including privacy and Pokemon GO, a new MIT anonymity system, the Fiat Chrysler bug bounty program, and a patched printer spooler vulnerability.
MIT Anonymity Network Riffle Promises Efficiency, Security
Riffle, a new anonymity network concocted by MIT researchers, can guarantee anonymity among a large group of users, as long as there’s one honest server.
Niantic said Monday night it wasn’t the company’s intent to request full access permission of its users’ Google accounts via Pokémon GO.
Google has announced its first venture into post-quantum cryptography with the use of a post-quantum key-exchange algorithm in the Canary test build of the Chrome browser.
Facebook today began a test program rolling out opt-in end-to-end encryption for its Messenger service called Secret Conversations.
In two unrelated breaches, the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Las Vegas and Noodle and Company confirm hacks.
The hacker selling upwards to 655,000 healthcare records on the dark web obtained them after exploiting a vulnerability in how companies implement RDP.
When Apple decided to unencrypt its iOS 10 beta kernel it sparking a fierce debate over the merits of the move.
An academic study sheds light on how medical professionals are often forced to find analog workarounds to combat unwieldy security solutions, putting patient care at risk.
