As a total sucker for anything skimming-related, I was interested to hear from a reader working security for a retail chain in the United States who recently found Bluetooth-enabled skimming devices placed over top of payment card terminals at several stores. Interestingly, these skimmers interfered with the show more ...
In this episode of the Security Ledger Podcast (#203) we talk about the apparent hack of a water treatment plant in Oldsmar Florida with Frank Downs of the firm BlueVoyant. In our second segment: is infosec’s lack of diversity a bug or a feature? Tennisha Martin of Black Girls Hack joins us to talk about the many show more ...
25.9 million business account credentials and over 543 million breach assets tied to employees in the Fortune 1000 are readily available on the criminal underground, SpyCloud reveals.
Microsoft president Brad Smith says the software giant’s analysis of the SolarWinds hack suggests the code behind the crack was the work of a thousand or more developers.
Touted as combining the 'greatest concentration of cybersecurity industry expertise' with the 'most developed technology commercialisation infrastructure that Australia has ever built'.
Joker’s Stash is one of the most longevous carding websites, it was launched in October 2014 and is very popular in the cybercrime underground due to the freshness of its cards and their validity.
Security properties like confidentiality, integrity, authentication, non-repudiation rely on strong cryptographic mechanisms, especially in an always connected, always online world.
Threat actors involved in tech support scams have been running a browser locker campaign from November 2020 until February 2021 on some of the world’s largest adult platforms.
The Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) expects intervention in the cyber attack response of companies considered critical infrastructure to only occur in "rare circumstances".
Markets regulator Sebi is in the process of setting up a cybersecurity fusion center, a move aimed at detecting cyber threats faster and resolve such incidents efficiently and effectively.
Businesses and consumers are relying on the voice call more than ever during the pandemic with voice traffic up 184% in 2020 compared to 2019, according to a Hiya report.
Visitors who try to manage or book a rental online are met with a message stating that the website is off due to technical problems and for assistance to call the listed numbers.
Yandex – one of Europe’s largest internet companies – is warning of a data breach that compromised 4,887 email accounts. The breach stems from an employee who acted maliciously for personal gains.
After carefully assessing the situation of Vastaamo, liquidator Lassi Nyyssönen from the law firm Fenno made a decision that it is not possible to conduct liquidation proceedings.
Increasing digitization and the primacy of information in the modern economy has made effective cybersecurity vital for law firms to fulfill their role as custodians of clients’ legal information.
The Series A funding round of Scalarr was led by the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development, with participation from TMT Investments, OTB Ventures, and Speedinvest.
Members of the Egregor ransomware operation have been arrested this week in Ukraine, French radio station France Inter reported on Friday, citing law enforcement sources.
The CET feature is designed to protect programs from Return Oriented Programming (ROP) and Jump Oriented Programming (JOP) attacks that modify an application's normal flow to execute malicious code.
In a tweet on February 11, the Center Hospitalier de Dax-Côte d’Argent revealed that it had fallen prey to a cyber-attack and was trying to restore systems that included the telephone switchboard.
With over 20,000 additional victims tricked since the new campaign began on February 11, it appears that is now also targeting British users, as about 75% of the new victims are based in the UK.
A built-in security-focused feature in the Safari browser, "Fraudulent Website Warning," alerts users about dangerous websites that have been reported as deceptive, malicious, or harmful.
Several versions of the product are affected by a high-severity (important) command injection vulnerability that can be exploited by a hacker with admin privileges to execute shell commands.
“Using these vulnerabilities, an attacker can gain access to sensitive data, disrupt the availability of firewall components or gain access to internal network segments,” the researchers warn.
Conti is a relatively new addition to the ransomware landscape, however, it has turned to be quite destructive. It is a more accessible variant of Ryuk and works in a RaaS model.
Google products and services have long been targets of cybercrime, majorly due to its userbase. Recently, many attacker groups attempted to exploit Google systems in a variety of campaigns.
Lately, we have unfortunately witnessed cyber incidents where hackers do not hesitate to endanger human lives if it benefits them. The attacks on industrial systems have proven this point pretty clearly.
Healthcare organizations are still struggling to keep their patients’ confidential data out of the reach of hackers. Especially in the era of COVID-19.
This Metasploit module exploits an insecure permission vulnerability on a folder in Micro Focus Operations Bridge Manager. An unprivileged user (such as Guest) can drop a JSP file in an exploded WAR directory and then access it without authentication by making a request to the OBM server. This will result in automatic show more ...
This Metasploit module exploits an unauthenticated command injection vulnerability in Klog Server versions 2.4.1 and prior. The authenticate.php file uses the user HTTP POST parameter in a call to the shell_exec() PHP function without appropriate input validation, allowing arbitrary command execution as the apache user.
Ubuntu Security Notice 4735-1 - Heikki Linnakangas discovered that PostgreSQL incorrectly leaked values of denied columns when handling certain errors. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2021-0508-01 - Subversion is a concurrent version control system which enables one or more users to collaborate in developing and maintaining a hierarchy of files and directories while keeping a history of all changes. Issues addressed include a denial of service vulnerability.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2021-0507-01 - Subversion is a concurrent version control system which enables one or more users to collaborate in developing and maintaining a hierarchy of files and directories while keeping a history of all changes. Issues addressed include a denial of service vulnerability.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2021-0509-01 - Subversion is a concurrent version control system which enables one or more users to collaborate in developing and maintaining a hierarchy of files and directories while keeping a history of all changes. Issues addressed include a denial of service vulnerability.
This whitepaper is a guide to using FTK Imager for digital forensics.
Backdoor.Win32.Cafeini.08.b malware suffers from a missing authentication vulnerability.
Tasks version 9.7.3 suffers from an insecure permissions vulnerability.
Apple's upcoming iOS 14.5 update will come with a new feature that will redirect all fraudulent website checks through its own proxy servers as a workaround to preserve user privacy and prevent leaking IP addresses to Google. A built-in security-focused feature in the Safari browser, "Fraudulent Website Warning," alerts users about dangerous websites that have been reported as deceptive,
A 33-year-old man has been arrested after allegedly hacking into his former employer's computer system to plant ransomware.
A researcher has uncovered disturbing security holes in a widely-used CCTV service designed to let parents remotely watch their children playing at nursery. Read more in my article on the Bitdefender BOX blog.
