#exposed

Applebee's Exposed Customers' Personal Data After Leaving Database Password In App

Joe_Dragon shares a report from TechCrunch: Applebee's has fixed a security flaw that allowed anyone to access the personal information of its registered customers, after a researcher found a password for an internal database inside Applebee's mobile app, TechCrunch has learned. The popular restaurant chain confirmed [last Thursday] that it had taken action to address the security issue to prevent any unauthorized access to its customer database. [...] The exposed database contained customer names, email addresses (including whether or not the customer verified their email), dates of birth, ph

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Is Your Exposure Management Platform Leaving You Exposed? Five Tests to Find Out

A critical finding can move through several security tools and still leave the organization exposed. The vulnerability has a severity score, and a ticket has reached the queue. Progress then depends on information the finding may lack: who owns the system, whether attackers can reach it, what protection exists, and how a change could affect the business. Each missing detail creates

The Hacker News · EN

AO3s outage has exposed a growing divide between fanfiction authors and readers

As AO3 remains offline, shared fanfiction archives are sparking controversy and raising questions about reader entitlement, author consent, and fandom culture.

Mashable · EN