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Nissan source code leaked due to admin: admin credentials

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyJanuary 11, 2021

The source code for mobile apps and internal tools for Nissan’s North American division has leaked. The leak was due to the fact that the specialists of the automaker incorrectly configured one of their Git servers. The first incident was highlighted by the Swiss

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Millions of Windows 7 users refuse to upgrade to Windows 10

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyJanuary 5, 2021

In early 2020, Microsoft officially ended support for the Windows 7 operating system. However, millions of Windows 7 users refuse to upgrade to Windows 10. Prior to the end of support, ZDNet journalist Ed Bott consulted with some analytics experts and estimated that

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyOctober 5, 2020

ZDNet reports that a number of new positions have been added to Google’s job list. The fact is that Google appears to be recruiting a team of Android security experts that will be looking for vulnerabilities in critical applications from the Google Play Store.

ByVladimir KrasnogolovySeptember 28, 2020

Journalists of the ZDNet publication, citing one of their readers, report that the web version of TikTok did not receive multi-factor authentication (via mail and SMS), which developers established for all users of the platform in August. Thus, an attacker who somehow

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Mozilla suspended Firefox Send service due to abuse and malware

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyJuly 8, 2020

Journalists from ZDNet drew attention of Mozilla engineers to numerous abuses of the Firefox Send service, which was actively used to distribute the malware. Mozilla temporarily suspended the Firefox Send service (for the time of investigation), and the developers promise to

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Attackers hack Roblox accounts and urge to vote for Trump

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyJuly 3, 2020

According to the ZDNet publication, unknown attackers hack Roblox accounts and leave a message “Ask your parents to vote for Trump this year! #MAGA2020 ” in about 1800 users’ profiles on Roblox.com. Judging by the complaints of the victims, which can be found on

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Experts confirm data leak of 26 million LiveJournal users

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyMay 28, 2020

In mid-May 2020, in the Telegram channel of the head of DeviceLock company Ashot Hovhannisyan appeared information on data leak of 33.7 million LiveJournal users. Now, experts have confirmed a data leak of 26 million users. It was reported that the detected text file

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Dharma ransomware source code put for sale

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyMarch 30, 2020

ZDNet reports that the source code for one of the most profitable ransomware of our time, the Dharma ransomware, was put for sale on two hacker forums last weekend. Sources are sold for $2,000. Let me remind you that this year the FBI called Dharma the second most profitable