Dara Khosrowshahi was appointed Uber CEO in August 2017 to replace Travis Kalanick. The culture that evolved under Kalanick is alive and well, though. This week a U.S. Congressional Representative called the ride-hailing firm a “notoriously predatory company.” Uber (NYSE: UBER) CEO Dara Khosrowshahi came in three years ago to clean up the mess caused…
Samuel Corum/Getty Images Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said in a statement on Sunday that he had been exposed to a CPAC attendee who tested positive for coronavirus. Cruz said that he is currently not experiencing any symptoms of coronavirus and that he plans to stay at home until he has waited a full two weeks…
Rallyhood says it’s “private and secure.” But for some time, it wasn’t. The social network designed to help groups communicate and coordinate left one of its cloud storage buckets containing user data open and exposed. The bucket, hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS), was not protected with a password, allowing anyone who knew the easily-guessable…
Natalie Portman wore a gown embroidered with the names of female directors who had been snubbed by the Oscars. Actress Rose McGowan posted a lengthy diatribe on her Facebook account, calling Portman out as a fraud. Neither McGowan or Portman come out of this situation smelling of roses, but McGowan is right. Natalie Portman probably…
Movie ticket subscription service MoviePass has exposed tens of thousands of customer card numbers and personal credit cards because a critical server was not protected with a password. Mossab Hussein, a security researcher at Dubai-based cybersecurity firm SpiderSilk, found an exposed database on one of the company’s many subdomains. The database was massive, containing 161…
A hacker gained access to internal files and documents owned by security company and SSL certificate issuer Comodo by using an email address and password mistakenly exposed on the internet. The credentials were found in a public GitHub repository owned by a Comodo software developer. With the email address and password in hand, the hacker…
