Day: September 4, 2017

Data Breach Exposes Thousands of Job Seeker CVs Citing Top Secret Government Work

Posted on by Robin Edgar

Thousands of files containing the personal information and expertise of Americans with classified and up to Top Secret security clearances have been exposed by an unsecured Amazon server, potentially for most of the year. […] Thousands of files containing the personal information and expertise of Americans with classified and up to Top Secret security clearances Read more about Data Breach Exposes Thousands of Job Seeker CVs Citing Top Secret Government Work[…]

Facebook has mapped populations in 23 countries as it explores satellites to expand internet – it knows where you live!

Posted on by Robin Edgar

Facebook doesn’t only know what its 2 billion users “Like.” It now knows where millions of humans live, everywhere on Earth, to within 15 feet. The company has created a data map of the human population by combining government census numbers with information it’s obtained from space satellites, according to Janna Lewis, Facebook’s head of Read more about Facebook has mapped populations in 23 countries as it explores satellites to expand internet – it knows where you live![…]

Millions of Time Warner Cable Customer Records Exposed in Third-Party Data Leak

Posted on by Robin Edgar

Roughly four million records containing the personal details of Time Warner Cable (TWC) customers were discovered stored on an Amazon server without a password late last month. The files, more than 600GB in size, were discovered on August 24 by the Kromtech Security Center while its researchers were investigating an unrelated data breach at World Read more about Millions of Time Warner Cable Customer Records Exposed in Third-Party Data Leak[…]