Thousands of Mobile Apps Expose Their Unprotected Firebase Hosted Databases

The Hacker News Daily Updates Cyber Risk Management: Why Business Leaders Must Prioritize Many experts say that data, and not gold or oil, has become the most valuable commodity in the world in recent years, and this makes companies dealing with data a serious target for cyber criminals. Download Now Sponsored LATEST NEWS Jun 25, 2018 Android Gets New Anti-Spoofing Feature to Make Biometric Authentication Secure Google just announced its plan to introduce a new anti-spoofing feature for its Android operating system that makes its biometric authentication mechanisms more secure than ever. Biometric authentications, like the fingerprint, IRIS, or face recognition technologies, smoothen the process of ... Read More Thousands of Mobile Apps Expose Their Unprotected Firebase Hosted Databases Mobile security researchers have discovered unprotected Firebase databases of thousands of iOS and Android mobile applications that are exposing over 100 million data records, including plain text passwords, user IDs, location, and in some cases, financial records such as banking and cryptocurrency ... Read More Google Solves Update Issue for Android Apps Installed from Unknown Sources If you are wondering how to receive latest updates for an Android app—installed via a 3rd party source or peer-to-peer app sharing—directly from Google Play Store. For security reasons, until now apps installed from third-party sources cannot be updated automatically over-the-air, as Google does ... Read More Google Developer Discovers a Critical Bug in Modern Web Browsers Google researcher has discovered a severe vulnerability in modern web browsers that could have allowed websites you visit to steal the sensitive content of your online accounts from other websites that you have logged-in the same browser. Discovered by Jake Archibald, developer advocate for Google ... Read More Popular Flight Tracker Flightradar24 Suffers Data Breach One of the world's most popular flight tracking services Flightradar24, which shows real-time aircraft flight information on a map, has suffered a massive data breach that may have compromised email addresses and hashed passwords for more than 230,000 customers. Without revealing any information ... Read More Cyber Risk Management: Why Business Leaders Must Prioritize Many experts say that data, and not gold or oil, has become the most valuable commodity in the world in recent years, and this makes companies dealing with data a serious target for cyber criminals. Download Now Sponsored This email was sent to balvistudio4.raaj@blogger.com. You are receiving this newsletter because you opted-in to receive relevant communications from The Hacker News. To manage your email newsletter preferences, please click here. Contact The Hacker News: info@thehackernews.com Unsubscribe The Hacker News | Pearls Omaxe, Netaji Subash Place, Pitampura, Delhi 110034 India