2 Terabyte Database Includes Up To 150 Fields With US Consumers' Data A computer security researcher has discovered a vast marketing database containing 340 million records on U.S. consumers, including such information as credit worthiness, political donations, stock ownership and the ages of their children. The database, which is 2 terabytes in size, was left exposed to the internet without authentication, says Vinny Troia, who runs the New York-based consultancy NightLion S

Apply our security fix to your Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance devices now, Cisco warns. After observing attacks on customers, Cisco is telling users to install the fix for a recently disclosed denial-of-service flaw affecting a number of its security appliances. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2018-0296, was detailed in an advisory on June 6 and affects Cisco ASA Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software. Vulnerable products include 3000 Series Industrial Securit

Hacker Modified JavaScript Chatbot to Scrape Customers' Card Payment Details Ticketmaster is warning customers that it suffered a data breach that exposed payment card data. The ticket sales and distribution giant, which is part of Live Nation Entertainment, says that on Saturday, it discovered that automated customer support chatbot software from Inbenta Technologies that runs on multiple Ticketmaster websites was hacked and used to steal an unspecified amount of payment car

Some 8% of all bad bot traffic comes from mobile devices, according to Distil Networks. Here's how to avoid infection. Sophisticated bad bots have evolved to take over mobile devices, leading to increased difficulty in identifying and mitigating the threats they pose, according to a Wednesday report from Distil Networks. Bots—software applications that run scripts over the internet—make up more than half of all internet traffic. All websites with login pages have been hit wit

Now you can log in with a push of a button ... almost. Buried in an announcement Tuesday, Twitter said it will now support physical security keys for login verification, making it far more difficult to break into a user's account. Known as universal two-factor (U2F) devices, these small keyring-sized devices that you can take anywhere add an extra layer of security to supporting services. Unlike a text message code sent to your phone that can be intercepted and used, a univer