Neowin News Feed for: Exposed

Microsoft calls out security firm for exaggerating impact of BlueBleed misconfiguration

Usama Jawad — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 04:46:01 +0000

Microsoft has published an advisory about a misconfiguration that led to its own, customer, and partner data being exposed. It has also called out security researchers for mishandling the disclosure. Read more...

Adult FriendFinder experiences data breach exposing 3.5 million users

Timi Cantisano — Fri, 22 May 2015 19:50:01 +0000

The popular adult-oriented social website Adult FriendFinder has experienced a data breach that has resulted in exposing 3.5 million users and the personal information. Read more...

LulzSec members revealed by "LulzSec Exposed"?

News Staff — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 02:12:52 +0000

The antics by LulzSec over the past few weeks may have attracted a bit too much attention, at least for those involved in the group. Their veil of anonymity and fearlessness may be finally crumbling.... Read more...

Sony BMG internal network maps exposed

Brad Sams — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 16:19:08 +0000

Sony has been caught on the wrong end of a hackers agenda for the past few weeks. First their entire PlayStation Network was hacked with information stolen and quickly leaked to the Internet, then when... Read more...

Over 4000 Comcast customer passwords exposed

Sam Alderwick — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:43:28 +0000

A list of over 8000 (4000 after duplicates were removed) Comcast customer usernames and passwords has been floating around the web for the past two months, unprotected. The list was made available on Scribd, a... Read more...

MPAA fake download site exposed

Tom Warren — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 17:19:48 +0000

The detective agency used by the Motion Picture Association of America has attempted to lure file sharers to a fake download site that installs spyware on their PCs. The MiiVi.com site offered downloads of complete... Read more...

Gmail, Yahoo, MSN Passwords Exposed By Entertainment Site

Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:23:05 +0000

Los Angeles Splash Magazines Worldwide, which publishes local versions of its magazines under URLs like NYCSplash.com and LASplash.com, has exposed the personal e-mail addresses and passwords for hundreds of its subscribers. The list of e-mail... Read more...

Retail breach may have exposed card data in four countries

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 09:23:06 +0000

The credit and debit card data of a large number of shoppers in the U.S., Puerto Rico and Canada, and possibly in the U.K and Ireland, may have been compromised as the result of a... Read more...

Pay-per-Digg service exposed

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 11:18:29 +0000

A pay-for-votes service has been launched that allows publishers to promote their submissions on Digg.com. User/Submitter touts itself as a site "where Digg submitters pay for Digg users to promote their stories, and where... Read more...

Xbox 360 Exposed

Sun, 24 Apr 2005 10:06:33 +0000

What a week. First the pictures of the current Xbox 360 Development Kit, then a photo of the Xbox 360 taken from an odd angle and today the ATI patent for the embedded video RAM... Read more...

WLANs Exposed by Hack

Tue, 27 Jul 2004 01:03:27 +0000

A wireless LAN hardware company is set to publicize a RADIUS server security hack that can thwart the recently ratified 802.11i protocol and any WLAN infrastructure that keeps encryption keys housed in access points rather... Read more...

Government Computers Still Exposed

Sun, 06 Jun 2004 03:09:32 +0000

Government agencies are spending billions on technology for homeland security, yet system vulnerabilities are increasing exponentially, agency representatives told a Congressional panel this week. Incidents due to security weaknesses in computer systems in the U.S.... Read more...

PlayStation 2 E3 line-up exposed

Darren Bolton — Mon, 26 Apr 2004 15:11:34 +0000

Official website leaks line-up of over 100 PS2 titles for next month's huge games extravaganza Sony have launched their official E3 website and, while the site so far only mentions a handful of... Read more...

Sims Bustin' Out sequel exposed

Darren Bolton — Tue, 20 Apr 2004 13:18:01 +0000

The Sims returns to consoles... and it's left the 'burbs for the big city. Word! Developers Maxis have leaked early details of the sequel to The Sims Bustin' Out - and, in contrast... Read more...

Second Cisco WLAN Security Threat Exposed

Mon, 12 Apr 2004 10:37:31 +0000

Cisco faced its second serious WLAN security threat this week when a network and security analyst released a tool that attacks the company's proprietary Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol (LEAP) wireless authentication system. Joshua... Read more...

MSI's Powered by ATI RV380 Graphics Cards Exposed

Mon, 05 Apr 2004 08:10:43 +0000

NVIDIA's Main Partner Reportedly Making ATI-based PCI Express Cards While the fact that one of the main add-in card partners of NVIDIA Corporation, Microstar International, was going to include at least some... Read more...

Windows Explorer secrets exposed

Tom Warren — Tue, 03 Jun 2003 10:48:06 +0000

Software group opens up hidden interfaces only seen by Microsoft developers Secret software interfaces hidden in Windows and previously only available to Microsoft's own developers have been exposed to the wider developer... Read more...

Longhorn loses its build lab tag. Exposed 4015 M5

Daniel Fleshbourne — Sun, 13 Apr 2003 08:52:38 +0000

Thanks aquadex from our BPN Forum... Now that we've all had the opportunity to play with Windows 2003 for a few weeks now, anyone ready for a real desktop operating system? Well its... Read more...

35 Million AOL Accounts Exposed

Wed, 22 Jan 2003 22:27:35 +0000

The accounts of millions of AOL subscribers were jeopardized this week due to a serious flaw in the company's Web-based mail system. The vulnerability stems from an error in one of AOL's... Read more...

AMD's memory-switching Hammer exposed

Wed, 17 Jul 2002 21:16:46 +0000

Amd says the integrated memory controller on its forthcoming Hammer chips can be turned off, allowing the chips to use the controller of its accompanying chipset if necessary. Thus, inital chip shipments will work with... Read more...

Film star details exposed on old Mac's

Fri, 05 Jul 2002 13:15:13 +0000

When retired press photographer Mike Kirkup purchased two Power Mac 720's at auction, for just Â£12 each, he was stunned to discover when he turned on the Power Mac's what he found; telephone numbers for... Read more...

IBM Nazi Collaboration Exposed

Sun, 31 Mar 2002 15:58:58 +0000

It has been known for a while that IBM had connections with the Nazis before World War 2 but today it has been announced that there is a book coming out that claims they were... Read more...

Comcast broadband data exposed

Fri, 08 Feb 2002 23:20:30 +0000

Thanks to Neo1980 for posting this in our Back Page News on the forums and Michael Griffith for emailing us. Feb. 7 — A database with thousands of records detailing potential... Read more...

IE 5.5/6 Vunerability: Cookie data in IE can be exposed or altered

Fri, 09 Nov 2001 12:43:23 +0000

Microsoft have released a security bulletin (but no patch!) to inform users that a vunerability exists in IE 5.5 and 6.0 which can allow the exposure and altering of data in cookies. ... Read more...

XP Powertoys, 2 bugs exposed

Steven Parker — Fri, 26 Oct 2001 13:02:26 +0000

Chris Pirillo has posted on todays Windows Daily about 2 bugs that are currently affecting The Slide Show wizard & Timershot (part of the XP Powertoys set) We will keep you updated when Microsoft decide... Read more...

Customer data at Microsoft exposed

Wed, 10 Oct 2001 21:35:22 +0000

A computer security researcher known for discovering serious leaks of private information at major U.S. companies has found one at Microsoft Corp.'s Web site. The researcher showed MSNBC.com several screen shots he had taken revealing... Read more...