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What was the recent non-Google data breach (April 2024)?
I recently suffered an unprecedented number of hacking attacks. The following accounts of mine were accessed:
Patreon
Amazon (both accounts)
Paypal (3 unauthorized purchases, 2 recovered, one denied)
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Will this Account Lockout mechanism increase the severity of a information leakage vulnerability that leaks usernames?
I found an information leakage vulnerability on a company website and I found that the information includes all the usernames of the users.
I also observed that the application uses a lockout ...
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Setting up VPN tunnel: what are the possible ways by which my true IP address could leak? [duplicate]
I bought a subscription to a VPN service and I set up the VPN tunnel using openvpn.
In order to avoid DNS leaks, I am using the DNS servers provided by my VPN provider by manually enforcing /etc/...
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How do hackers take advantage of apps that are known to be leaking personal information?
I'm wondering how apps that leak personally identifiable information can be taken advantage of by hackers? How would they have the infrastructure to capture all that information that come from ...
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How is it possible that important databases keep getting put online with literally zero security?
The ANPR camera system's internal management dashboard could be
accessed by simply entering its IP address into a web browser. No
login details or authentication of any sort was needed to view and
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Ex-contractor published company source code and secrets online
Just found my current company code on the plain internet.
We are talking hundreds of thousands of lines of scripts and configurations, including database schemas and a fair amount of internal ...
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