So another data breach, and no surprise here, but another dating site. This time the BeautifulPeople.com Leak has exposed 1.1 million customer records, including 15 million private messages sent between users. Not so private now is it. And no surprise either the entry point for this leak, was the not-so excellent NoSQL database MongoDB which […]
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IPGeoLocation – Retrieve IP Geolocation Information
IPGeoLocation is a Python based tool designed to retrieve IP geolocation information from the ip-api service, useful for building into your security tools. Do be aware that as this tool is leveraging a 3rd party API, you will be limited to 150 requests a minute. Whilst that is quite a lot, just be wary of […]
The Panama Papers Leak – What You Need To Know
The HUGE news this week is the Panama Papers leak, a massive cache of 11.5 million documents leaked to a German Newspaper (Süddeutsche Zeitung) in August 2015. It’s one of the most significant data leaks of all time and Edward Snowden has labelled it as “the biggest leak in the history of data journalism”. It’s […]
VTech Hack – Over 7 Million Records Leaked (Children & Parents)
And once again, the messy technical flaws of a company are being exposed with the recent VTech hack – it’s really not looking good for them with account passwords ‘secured’ with unsalted md5 hashes and all kinds of private information being leaked includes parents addresses, kids birthdays, genders, secret answers and associated meta-data (IP addresses, […]
Dell Backdoor Root Cert – What You Need To Know
So a few days ago the Internet exploded with chatter about a Dell backdoor root cert AKA a rogue root CA, almost exactly like what happened with Lenovo and Superfish. It started with this Reddit thread – Dell ships laptops with rogue root CA, exactly like what happened with Lenovo and Superfish in the Technology […]