GoDaddy has finally rolled out a fix to a vulnerability involving its online support center, where just anyone could have manipulated the flaw and change a GoDaddy account. Worst of all, any abuse could have resulted in the removal of an account with the domain registrar.
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Kiddicare suffers unauthorized access to its customer data
If you are one of those parents constantly visiting the website of Kiddicare and buying items for children, some of your personal data might now be in the hands of hackers.
Twitter addresses privacy concerns, bars spy agencies from viewing public tweets
Perhaps in an attempt to address the privacy concerns of its hundreds of thousands of users, social networking site Twitter has moved to bar intelligence agencies in the United States from gaining access to public tweets via Dataminr.
Adblock Plus and Flattr want you to donate for content you consume if you don’t like ads
There is something distracting with flashy ads for content readers who navigate across free websites to acquire information. But it’s free after all, so consumers have to settle for the ads, without which they would not have been able to view the free content in the first place.
ImageMagick security flaw lets hackers execute malicious code remotely
ImageMagick, an open source image processing software, has been infected with a security hole that allows attackers to upload images that contain malicious code intended to deceive the ImageMagick software to run the hacker’s commands remotely.
Hackers targeted Japanese websites with spear phishing
You would be wise not to visit Japanese websites at present as security researchers from Symantec discovered a persistent spear phishing attack perpetrated by a group of hackers calling themselves Tick.