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Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 22nd of September 2021 03:32:39 PM Filed under
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  • Database containing 106m Thailand travelers' details leaked • The Register

    A database containing personal information on 106 million international travelers to Thailand was exposed to the public internet this year, a Brit biz claimed this week.

    Bob Diachenko, head of cybersecurity research at product-comparison website Comparitech, said the Elasticsearch data store contained visitors' full names, passport numbers, arrival dates, visa types, residency status, and more. It was indexed by search engine Censys on August 20, and spotted by Diachenko two days later. There were no credentials in the database, which is said to have held records dating back a decade.

    “There are many people who would prefer their travel history and residency status not be publicized, so for them there are obvious privacy issues,” wrote Comparitech editor Paul Bischoff on the company’s blog.

  • Break out your emergency change process and patch this ransomware-friendly bug ASAP, says VMware

    VMware has disclosed a critical bug in its flagship vSphere and vCenter products and urged users to drop everything and patch it. The virtualization giant also offered a workaround.

  • Reproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 185 released

    The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version 185. This version includes the following changes:

    [ Mattia Rizzolo ]
* Fix the autopkgtest in order to fix testing migration: the androguard
  Python module is not in the python3-androguard Debian package
* Ignore a warning in the tests from the h5py package that doesn't concern
  diffoscope.

[ Chris Lamb ]
* Bump Standards-Version to 4.6.0.
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MoD apologises after Afghan interpreters' data exposed

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 22nd of September 2021 03:34:42 PM.
  • MoD apologises after Afghan interpreters' data exposed • The Register

    The UK's Ministry of Defence has launched an internal investigation after committing the classic CC-instead-of-BCC email error – but with the names and contact details of Afghan interpreters trapped in the Taliban-controlled nation.

    The horrendous data breach took place yesterday, with Defence Secretary Ben Wallace promising an immediate investigation, according to the BBC.

    Included in the breach were profile pictures associated with some email accounts, according to the state-owned broadcaster. The initial email was followed up by a second message urging people who had received the first one to delete it – a way of drawing close attention to an otherwise routine missive.

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Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 22nd of September 2021 09:11:47 PM.

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