Thursday, August 24
TOP STORY
AccuWeather iOS app sends location information to data monetization firm according to researcher Will Strafach. John Gruber provides a helpful walkthrough of the AccuWeather response.
HACKTIVITY
Restaurant payment information leakage [7 upvotes] - $500 bounty for this report to Zomato by @nbsp. An endpoint was leaking banking information of restaurant owners: Bank Name, Account number.
Gratipay rails secret token (secret_key_base) publicly exposed in GitHub [6 upvotes] - no bounty for this report to Gratipay by @nuii. Finding a bug in a program by reading the writeup of the owner of the program: #togetherwehitharder.
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OTHER ARTICLES WE’RE READING
Hidden Cobra - North Korea’s DDoS Botnet Infrastructure
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