In 2013, Google – one of the world’s pre-eminent tech companies – was hacked. It wasn’t its search engine that was attacked or its advertising platform or even its social…
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Is Your Home Webcam Broadcasting To The World?
Video feeds from unsecured webcams are now available to the paying customers of an internet-of-things search engine. A search engine has been launched that allows users to find live video…
Over 650 terabytes of data up for grabs due to publicly exposed MongoDB databases
Security researchers sound alarm on “very serious” privacy problem. By Lucian Constantin There are at least 35,000 publicly accessible and insecure MongoDB databases on the Internet, and their number appears…