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Chris Vickery
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Norton antivirus installs cryptominer on devices but there is a way out
The anti-virus giant Norton is being criticized for installing cryptominer that mine Ethereum.
Private data of 540 million Facebook users exposed in plain text
Unprotected Amazon Web Services has a new victim and it’s Facebook users. It’s just been a year since…
Sensitive data on 31,000 GoDaddy servers exposed online
All thanks to Unsecure AWS S3 Bucket. GoDaddy is the latest victim of cybercriminals and has joined the…
Localblox exposes personal data of millions of Facebook & LinkedIn users
Facebook has been at the receiving end of backlash and criticism from security fraternity for being embroiled into…
Sensitive Data of 123 Million American Households Exposed
In September this year when Equifax servers were hacked it allowed attackers to steal personal details of more than 143 million Americans...
Unprotected S3 Cloud Bucket Exposed 100GB of Classified NSA Data
Another day another massive trove of sensitive NSA data exposed online – This time, security firm UpGuard’s Cyber…
Misconfigured Amazon S3 Buckets Exposed US Military’s Social Media Spying Campaign
UpGuard’s security researcher Chris Vickery has discovered three misconfigured AWS S3 buckets that are available for public access…
Massive Trove of Sensitive ‘Accenture’ Data Exposed Online
On September 17th, 2017, Chris Vickery, director of Cyber Risk Research at UpGuard discovered a trove of highly sensitive…
Massive Viacom Data Exposed Through Amazon Web Services
Database on Amazon Web Services Containing Sensitive Data of Viacom Is Publicly Available. Amazon Web Services S3 is…
Trove of Private Military Contractor Job Applicants Exposed Online
Another day another trove of data goes public – This time, personal and sensitive data of American citizens…