On Jan. 11, Ubiquiti Inc. [NYSE:UI] — a major vendor of cloud-enabled Internet of Things (IoT) devices such as routers, network video recorders and security cameras — disclosed that a breach involving a third-party cloud provider had exposed customer account credentials. Now a source who participated in show more ...
An IP address parsing flaw in the netmask NPM module affects hundreds of thousands of applications that rely on it. But that may be just the tip of the iceberg, researchers warn. The post Critical Flaw Found In Widely Used Netmask Open Source Module appeared first on The Security Ledger. Related StoriesEpisode 201: show more ...
Hafnium is an APT believed to be linked to the Chinese government, which Microsoft identified as carrying out zero-day attacks on Microsoft Exchange servers using the ProxyLogon vulnerabilities.
The security of the UK’s transport, energy, and other critical national infrastructures could be threatened by staff burnout and IT skills shortages, according to research from Bridewell Consulting.
Suspected Russian hackers gained access to email accounts belonging to the Trump administration’s head of the DHS and members of the department’s cybersecurity staff, The Associated Press reported.
The Clop ransomware group has posted financial documents and passport information allegedly belonging to the University of Maryland and the University of California online.
Australian officials are investigating two apparent security issues that have resulted in downtime for a parliamentary email system, and technical issues for a popular television broadcaster.
In an update published last week, the DoJ said that 474 defendants to date have been publicly charged "with criminal offenses based on fraud schemes connected to the COVID-19 pandemic."
The flaw could allow an attacker to modify SAML responses generated by an Identity Provider, and thereby gain unauthorized access to user accounts, or to escalate privileges within an application.
Email verifiers are online services that allow marketers to verify that the email address you used to create an account, sign up for a newsletter or make an order on their website is real and valid.
HYCU, which was founded in April 2018, managed to stay completely private for a very long time before working with Bain Capital Ventures, which is leading the A funding round, said CEO Simon Taylor.
Cyber insurance carriers typically have lists or "panels" of approved vendors for various incident response services that address breaches and ransomware attacks, including ransomware negotiations.
According to court documents, the 30-year-old would obtain fake passports in the names of other people, then use these fraudulent documents to open bank accounts and set up sham businesses.
The fraudsters behind the “I accidentally reported you” Steam scam usually approach their targets under the pretext that they need something, or they have something to say.
Manufacturing firms have become a top target of cybercriminals and nation-state groups, with 61% of firms experiencing a security incident affecting their factories, as per a report by Trend Micro.
Once discovered the ransomware infection, the IT staff at the nonprofit organization has taken its systems offline along with the email and landline phone systems, and students’ devices.
A home healthcare company says a data breach affecting more than 753,000 patients, employees and former workers stems from a ransomware attack on its private cloud hosted by managed service providers.
"The FBI has received multiple reports of conferences being disrupted by pornographic and/or hate images and threatening language," the warning published by FBI's Boston Division says.
So-called cyber-attack insurance "cannot be a substitute for better basic cybersecurity," the National Cyber Security Centre's chief exec has said in her first major speech since taking office.
The tactic involves threat actors stealing data from firms in addition to encrypting files. As well as demanding a ransom, attackers can later threaten to leak the stolen information if it's not paid.
Some students at the DeKalb County School District may have their personal information exposed in a 2019 security breach at PCS Revenue Control Systems, a school nutrition technology services firm.
About 52 percent of Indian organizations said they fell victim to a successful cybersecurity attack in the last 12 months, according to a survey released on Tuesday by Sophos.
Australian Communications Minister Paul Fletcher said on Tuesday that Australian telcos have blocked over 55 million scam calls since the industry got a new scam call code in December.
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are growing bigger in volume, and they have also become more targeted and increasingly persistent, according to web security services provider Akamai.
This RAT abuses Accessibility Services to gain access to instant messenger apps. Moreover, if the victim device is rooted, the spyware can collect database records too.
In 2020, more than 400,000 crypto scams were observed. This was a 40% surge from 2019. The scams that topped the charts include giveaways, fake prizes, and sweepstakes.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2021-1031-01 - This is a kernel live patch module which is automatically loaded by the RPM post-install script to modify the code of a running kernel. Issues addressed include a use-after-free vulnerability.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2021-1027-01 - The curl packages provide the libcurl library and the curl utility for downloading files from servers using various protocols, including HTTP, FTP, and LDAP. Issues addressed include a buffer overflow vulnerability.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2021-1026-01 - The nss-softokn package provides the Network Security Services Softoken Cryptographic Module. Issues addressed include out of bounds read and use-after-free vulnerabilities.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2021-1030-01 - Apache Tomcat is a servlet container for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies. Issues addressed include a HTTP request smuggling vulnerability.
Ubuntu Security Notice 4895-1 - Alex Rousskov and Amit Klein discovered that Squid incorrectly handled certain Content-Length headers. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform an HTTP request smuggling attack, resulting in cache poisoning. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Jianjun Chen show more ...
Ubuntu Security Notice 4894-1 - A large number of security issues were discovered in the WebKitGTK Web and JavaScript engines. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious website, a remote attacker could exploit a variety of issues related to web browser security, including cross-site scripting attacks, denial of service attacks, and arbitrary code execution.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2021-1032-01 - Perl is a high-level programming language that is commonly used for system administration utilities and web programming. Issues addressed include buffer overflow, denial of service, and integer overflow vulnerabilities.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2021-1028-01 - The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Issues addressed include a use-after-free vulnerability.
Openlitespeed version 1.7.9 suffers from a persistent cross site scripting vulnerability.
IRC-Worm.Win32.Jane.a malware suffers from bypass and man-in-the-middle vulnerabilities.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2021-0957-01 - Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is Red Hat's cloud computing Kubernetes application platform solution designed for on-premise or private cloud deployments. Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is Red Hat's cloud computing Kubernetes application platform solution show more ...
GetSimple CMS version 3.3.16 cross site scripting to remote shell upload exploit.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2021-0958-01 - Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is Red Hat's cloud computing Kubernetes application platform solution designed for on-premise or private cloud deployments. This advisory contains the RPM packages for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.7.4.
IRC-Worm.Win32.Jane.a malware suffers from bypass and code execution vulnerabilities.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2021-1024-01 - OpenSSL is a toolkit that implements the Secure Sockets Layer and Transport Layer Security protocols, as well as a full-strength general-purpose cryptography library. Issues addressed include bypass and null pointer vulnerabilities.
Popular Indian mobile payments service MobiKwik on Monday came under fire after 8.2 terabytes (TB) of data belonging to millions of its users began circulating on the dark web in the aftermath of a major data breach that came to light earlier this month. The leaked data includes sensitive personal information such as:customer names,hashed passwords,email addresses,residential addresses,GPS
Live broadcasts from Australia's Channel 9 TV network were disrupted this weekend following what is believed to have been a cyber attack. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
