A UK court blocked a class action lawsuit over allegations of the under reporting of sewage leaks by six water companies including the debt-laden Thames Water Ltd. The UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal dismissed the lawsuit that alleged the six water companies significantly under-reported the pollution they caused. The companies would not have been allowed to … Read more
The Turkish government is proposing a controversial new cybersecurity law that could make it a criminal act to report on data breaches. The new legislation proposes penalties for various cybersecurity-related offences. But they key one which has people concerned is this: “Those who carry out activities aimed at targeting institutions or individuals by creating the … Read more
Six vulnerabilities in the popular Rsync file-synchronizing tool were disclosed Wednesday, including critical and high-severity flaws that could risk remote code execution (RCE) and data leakage. The Rsync utility is commonly used in Unix-like operating systems, and the Rsync daemon is frequently used to synchronize and distribute files through public mirrors. The CERT Coordination Center … Read more
An Indian AI startup that helps businesses build custom chatbots has leaked almost 350,000 sensitive files after the data was left unsecured on the web. Ahmedabad-headquartered WotNot left a massive collection of sensitive user information – including scans of passport and identity documents, medical records, resumes, travel itineraries and more – unsecured in a misconfigured … Read more
A security researcher has blamed misconfigured implementations of Microsoft Power Pages for a slew of data breaches from web portals – including the leak of 1.1 million NHS employee records. It’s the latest discovery by Dublin-based security researcher Aaron Costello, who previously discovered the health and personal details of over a million citizens had been … Read more
