Hacker and Activist Noam Rotem, working with Safety Detectives research lab, was shocked when he recently discovered a major vulnerability affecting nearly half of all airlines worldwide. While booking a flight with Israeli national carrier ELAL, he came across a significant security breach that allows anyone to access and change private information on flight bookings. The same breach was then discovered to include 44% of the international carriers market, potentially affecting tens of millions of travelers.
Updated February 12, 2019
Israeli hackers and activists Noam Rotem and Ran L from Safety Detectives research lab have uncovered a major security breach in temperature control systems manufactured by Resource Data Management, a Scotland-based remote monitoring solutions company.
These control systems are used by hospitals and supermarket chains all over the world, including Marks & Spencer, Ocado, Way-on, and many others.
While you were taking it easy this weekend, over one million pages on hundreds of websites were taken over by hacker group Anonymous and made to display a contentious political message. Though the attack was quickly contained, many Israeli corporate websites, including those of Coca-Cola, Groupon, Toys R Us, McDonald’s, and Fiverr, were affected (to be precised, all websites were the local domains of .co.il address, so mcdonalds.co.il, cocacola.co.il etc., but it also included international Fiverr.com with 40 MM monthly visitors). Had a few sharp security researchers not quickly detected the vulnerability and its embedded ransomware code, the economic damage could have cost millions, if not more.
Hacker-activists Noam Rotem and Ran L from Safety Detective’s research lab recently revealed a significant security breach in the Tommy Hilfiger Japan client database – leaving the private and personal details of hundreds of thous...
Safety Detectives’ research team has recently discovered a sizeable data leak (over 899gb and growing by the day) of a China-based server, which has now been closed. We are unable to confirm the company behind the leak, but accord...
The research team at SafetyDetectives, led by Anurag Sen, recently uncovered a data leak from Peruvian movie theater chain, Cineplanet. Hosted on a Microsoft Azure server based out of Virginia, USA, there were approximately 14 mil...
High-flying and rapidly growing Chinese social media management company Socialarks has suffered a huge data leak leading to the exposure of over 400GB of personal data including several high-profile celebrities and social media in...
Elena Elkina, Co-Founder of Women in Security and Privacy, was interviewed by Aviva Zacks of Safety Detective. She asked her how WISP helps women succeed in the cybersecurity industry.
Safety Detective: What motivated you to c...
With many thanks to Taavi Must, CEO of RangeForce, Aviva Zacks of Safety Detectives got a deeper understanding of his company's cloud-based simulator.
Safety Detectives: Can you tell me a little bit about your cybersecurity jou...
Peter Lefkowitz, Chief Privacy and Digital Risk Officer at Citrix, did us the honor of a fascinating interview. Aviva Zacks of Safety Detectives asked him about Citrix Workspace.
Safety Detectives: What has your journey to cybe...
