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Interview With Tamás Kadar – SEON
Interview With Tamás Kadar – SEON
With many thanks to SEON's CEO, Tamás Kadar, Aviva Zacks had the wonderful opportunity to find out all about his company's Intelligence Tool and Sense Platform. Safety Detectives: Tell me how you got started in the cybersecurit...
Interview With Andrea Pfundmeier – Boxcryptor
Interview With Andrea Pfundmeier – Boxcryptor
With thanks to Andrea Pfundmeier, CEO and Co-Founder of Boxcryptor, Aviva Zacks of Safety Detectives asked all about her company's commitment to securing data in the cloud. Safety Detectives: What motivated you to create Boxcry...
Interview With Nuno Loureiro – Probely
Interview With Nuno Loureiro – Probely
Aviva Zacks of Safety Detectives got a chance to sit down with Nuno Loureiro, CEO and Co-Founder of Probely, to ask him all about his motivations to start his company. Safety Detectives: What motivated you to start Probely?...
Interview With Rick Goud – Zivver
Interview With Rick Goud – Zivver
Aviva Zacks of Safety Detectives had the distinct honor of interviewing Rick Goud, CIO & Founder of Zivver, and asked him about his company's digital communication protection services. Safety Detective: What motivated you t...
Microsoft Account Takeover Vulnerability Affecting 400 Million Users
Microsoft Account Takeover Vulnerability Affecting 400 Million Users
During our first security investigation for critical vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft, we came across multiple vulnerabilities that, when chained together, allow an attacker to take over any Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Store,...
Report: Ethiopian INSA Agents Hacked: 142 agents chose the predictable password ‘P@$$w0rd’
Report: Ethiopian INSA Agents Hacked: 142 agents chose the predictable password ‘P@$$w0rd’
SafetyDetective’s research lab discovered a leak online regarding the Ethiopian National Security Agency (INSA). The hackers managed to easily scrape a few hundred of INSA agents’ email addresses and passwords, allowing them to...
Major Security Breach Discovered Affecting Nearly Half of All Airline Travelers Worldwide
Major Security Breach Discovered Affecting Nearly Half of All Airline Travelers Worldwide
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.
Major Security Breach Found in Hospital and Supermarket Refrigeration Systems
Major Security Breach Found in Hospital and Supermarket Refrigeration Systems
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.
Report: Coca-Cola, ToysRUs, McDonald’s, and Fiverr Websites Taken Down by Anonymous Hacker Group
Report: Coca-Cola, ToysRUs, McDonald’s, and Fiverr Websites Taken Down by Anonymous Hacker Group
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.
Vulnerability in Tommy Hilfiger Japan DB Exposes Hundreds of Thousands of Customers to Data Theft
Vulnerability in Tommy Hilfiger Japan DB Exposes Hundreds of Thousands of Customers to Data Theft
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...