ICT Security-Sécurité PC et Internet

Sportswear maker Adidas announced a data breach yesterday evening, which the company says it impacted shoppers who used its US website.

The company says it became aware of the breach on Tuesday, June 26, when it learned that an unauthorized party was claiming to have acquired the details of Adidas customers.

"According to the preliminary investigation, the limited data includes contact information, usernames and encrypted passwords," an Adidas spokesperson said.

"Adidas has no reason to believe that any credit card or fitness information of those consumers was impacted," he added.

The company said it's still investigating the breach with law enforcement and security firms.

A few millions impacted

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A secretive special air service base has been inadvertently revealed by a fitness app that has created a heatmap of running routes around the country.

A SAS base in Hereford, along with a nuclear deterrent naval base and the government's spy agency GCHQ has been placed on a heatmap of Strava's customers, including the profiles of several people who regularly run to-and-from the highly sensitive buildings. 

The buildings appear on a global, interactive map created by Strava, which is an app that allows users to track cycling or running speeds and distances and share them with friends. But unbeknown to many of its users, Strava has used their location data to in a worldwide heatmap including three trillion coordinates, titled "Where We Play".

"When sensitive sites, such as the GCHQ, are quite literally highlighted by GPS activity, it raises concern not only for the individual connected to the device, but the institution as a whole. The UK’s security services must be hyper-aware of what they’re sharing – regardless of what may be labelled as ‘excluded’ within the device. If a device or application has the capability to share location in any respect, it signifies a breach in security protocols."

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A previously undisclosed flaw in Nike's website allowed anyone with a few lines of code to read server data like passwords, which could have provided greater access to the company's private systems.

An 18-year-old researcher Corben Leo discovered the flaw late last year and contacted Nike through the company's dedicated email address for reporting security flaws, which it advertises on its bug bounty page.

After hearing nothing back for more than three months, Leo contacted ZDNet, which also alerted the company to the vulnerability.

The bug exploited an out-of-band XML external entities (OOB-XXE) flaw that abused how Nike's website parses XML-based files, allowing the researcher to read files directly on the server. OOB-XXE flaws are widely seen as esoteric and difficult to carry out, but can be used to gain deep access to a server's internals.

Gaining access to a server's files can disclose other avenues for exploitation, such as remote code execution or pivoting to other connected servers or databases.

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Fitnesstracker Strava verrät Lage von Militärstützpunkten
Strava ist der Hersteller einer Fitnesstracking-App, die via GPS von Smartphones verfolgt, wann und wo ein Benutzer trainiert. Ziel ist eine Art soziales Netzwerk für Sportler. Damit können jedoch auch militärische Geheimnisse verraten werden.

Die Website Strava hat im November 2017 eine sogenannte Heat Map veröffentlicht, welche die Aktivitäten ihrer Nutzer aus der ganzen Welt zeigt. Dabei wurden über eine Milliarde Aktivitäten erfasst. Die Karte zeigt, wie häufig Menschen an bestimmten Punkten der Erde trainieren und ihre Daten mit Strava teilen. Ein Analytiker weist nun darauf hin, dass die Karte es ermöglichen könnte, Standorte von Militärstützpunkten und die Routinen des Personals zu identifizieren.

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