According to a study released Wednesday, election systems in the United States are vulnerable to cyber intrusions like the one that hit federal agencies and various businesses last year. After those attacks, the previously mentioned institutions remain a target for international hacking. The Center for Internet show more ...
Twitter recently introduced a new feature that allows users to tip one another. This feature, dubbed ‘Tip Jar,' allows users to submit a tip to each others, including journalists, security professionals, developers, and others. However, Twitter users' privacy is jeopardized by this exciting new Tip Jar show more ...
Tokyo (Reuters) stated that “Crude prices rose on Monday after a major cyberattack forced the shutdown of critical fuel supply pipelines in the United States and highlighted the fragility of its oil infrastructure.” Brent crude was up 76 cents, or 1.1%, at $69.04 a barrel at 0039 GMT, after rising l.5% last week. show more ...
A security researcher discovered that Apple's AirTag can be hacked, and thus its software modified. Using a microcontroller, he unraveled elements that can be reprogrammed to alter basic functions. Apple is known for using high standards of protection in its devices, so the latest AirTags have inevitably become show more ...
More scams were taken down by the UK's cybersecurity agency in the last year compared to the previous three years combined. Coronavirus swindles are fueling the increase. According to the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), experts saw a 15-fold increase in the removal of online campaigns in 2020 compared to show more ...
After yet another ransomware attack, the pipeline that supplies nearly half of the East Coast's gasoline and jet fuel, remained shut down on Sunday. The event led to emergency meetings in the White House and fresh concerns about whether President Biden's executive order improving cybersecurity for federal show more ...
How much is your payroll data worth? Probably a lot more than you think. One financial startup that’s targeting the gig worker market is offering up to $500 to anyone willing to hand over the payroll account username and password given to them by their employer, plus a regular payment for each month afterwards show more ...
App makers will also need to state whether apps need the data to function and whether users have a choice in sharing it, and whether users can request data deletion upon uninstalling an app.
Researchers identified four versions containing 11 sub-versions in this initial loader stage, with the main difference between the four being the second-stage PowerShell loading mechanism.
The New South Wales government is preparing a new Bill that will require public sector and state-owned entities to report a data breach to the Privacy Commissioner as well as any affected individuals.
SolarWinds said it "found evidence that causes us to believe the threat actor exfiltrated certain information as part of its research and surveillance," according to a regulatory filing on Friday.
Multiple sources have confirmed that the ransomware attack was caused by a cyber-criminal gang called DarkSide, who infiltrated Colonial's network on Thursday and took almost 100GB of data hostage.
A cryptocurrency scam recently pilfered at least $2 million from WallStreetBets enthusiasts, convincing them that they were buying into a new crypto coin connected to the popular memestock.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability can lead from program crashes and data corruption to the execution of arbitrary code on computers running the vulnerable software.
Of the 34 operations tracked by DarkTracer, the top five active operations are Conti (338 leaks), Sodinokibi/REvil (222 leaks), DoppelPaymer (200 leaks), Avaddon (123 leaks), and Pysa (103 leaks).
Lemon Duck remains relevant as the operators begin to target Microsoft Exchange servers, exploiting high-profile security vulnerabilities to drop web shells and carry out malicious activities.
US Army researchers developed a deepfake detection method that will enable the creation of soldier technology to support mission-essential tasks such as adversarial threat detection and recognition.
Criminal hackers are increasingly using brazen methods to increase pressure on law enforcement agencies to pay ransoms, including threatening to leak highly sensitive information.
More scams were taken down by the UK's cybersecurity agency in the last year compared to the previous three years combined. Coronavirus swindles are fueling the increase.
A reported ransomware attack on the CompuGroup Medical data center partner, MedNetwoRX, has impeded some customers' access to their Aprima electronic health record systems for more than two weeks.
The city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, one of the largest cities in the US, has been hit by a ransomware attack over the weekend that affected the city government’s network and brought down official websites.
With Elon Musk hosting tonight's Saturday Night Live episode, the Twitter scammers have been hacking into verified Twitter accounts and changing their profiles to impersonate SNL.
In this campaign, attackers targeted a variety of companies in the consumer goods, process manufacturing and agriculture, real estate, discrete manufacturing, and professional services sectors.
While the regular item tracker opens the Find My website, researchers created a modified item tracker that opens a non-related URL, which could be used for phishing or anything else.
According to the research team – Sam Curry, Justin Rhinehart, Brett Buerhaus, and Maik Robert – CVE-2021-27651 is a critical-risk vulnerability in versions 8.2.1 to 8.5.2 of Pega’s Infinity software.
The FBI has confirmed that the criminal ransomware gang DarkSide is responsible for the cyberattack on the Colonial Pipeline network. The FBI also said that it was continuing its investigations into the hack that disrupted a major pipeline company.
Iranian hackers recently compromised the networks of H&M Israel and other Israeli firms. It has threatened to leak 110GB of customer data if the ransom requirement of 3BTC isn’t met. N3TW0RM has not been attributed to any group at present.
On Friday, the city of Chicago revealed that some employee emails that were given to Jones Day “as part of an independent inquiry being conducted by the firm” were compromised in the incident.
Botan is a C++ library of cryptographic algorithms, including AES, DES, SHA-1, RSA, DSA, Diffie-Hellman, and many others. It also supports X.509 certificates and CRLs, and PKCS #10 certificate requests, and has a high level filter/pipe message processing system. The library is easily portable to most systems and compilers, and includes a substantial tutorial and API reference. This is the current stable release.
testssl.sh is a free command line tool which checks a server's service on any port for the support of TLS/SSL ciphers, protocols as well as recent cryptographic flaws, and much more. It is written in (pure) bash, makes only use of standard Unix utilities, openssl and last but not least bash sockets.
The javascript terminal emulator used by AWS CloudShell handles certain terminal escape codes incorrectly. This can lead to remote code execution if attacker controlled data is displayed in a CloudShell instance.
Ubuntu Security Notice 4939-1 - 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.
OpenNetAdmin versions 8.5.14 through 18.1.1 remote command execution exploit written in Ruby. This exploit was based on the original discovery of the issue by mattpascoe.
Human Resource Information System version 0.1 suffers from a persistent cross site scripting vulnerability.
Microweber CMS versions 1.1.20 and below suffer from a remote code execution vulnerability.
MikroTik RouterOS version 6.46.5 suffers from an assertion failure and multiple memory corruption vulnerabilities.
Backdoor.Win32.Antilam.13.a malware suffers from a code execution vulnerability.
29 bytes small Linux/x86 shellcode that performs setreuid to 0 and then executes /bin/sh.
Backdoor.Win32.MotivFTP.12 malware suffers from bypass and code execution vulnerabilities.
TFTP Broadband version 4.3.0.1465 suffers from an unquoted service path vulnerability.
Ubuntu Security Notice 4940-1 - It was discovered that PyYAML incorrectly handled untrusted YAML files with the FullLoader loader. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.
Four Eastern European nationals face 20 years in prison for Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organization (RICO) charges after pleading guilty to providing bulletproof hosting services between 2008 and 2015, which were used by cybercriminals to distribute malware to financial entities across the U.S. The individuals, Aleksandr Grichishkin, 34, and Andrei Skvortsov, 34, of Russia; Aleksandr
An unknown threat actor managed to control more than 27% of the entire Tor network exit capacity in early February 2021, a new study on the dark web infrastructure revealed. "The entity attacking Tor users is actively exploiting tor users since over a year and expanded the scale of their attacks to a new record level," an independent security researcher who goes by the name nusenu said in a
For as long as corporate IT has been in existence, users have been required to change their passwords periodically. In fact, the need for scheduled password changes may be one of the most long-standing of all IT best practices. Recently, however, things have started to change. Microsoft has reversed course on the best practices that it has had in place for decades and no longer recommends that
Tulsa, Oklahoma, is reportedly the latest in a long line of American cities to have fallen victim to a ransomware attack. The attack, which occurred on Friday evening, caused the city's IT security teams to shut down many of Tula's internal systems over the weekend "out of an abundance of caution" show more ...
The 5,500 miles of Colonial Pipeline, which carry over 100 million gallons of fuel every day, from Houston, Texas to the New York Harbor, has been offline since May 7 following a ransomware attack.
Application security has become a complex, distributed problem. During the days of waterfall development and monolithic applications, application security was pretty straight forward – statically scan your source code, dynamically test your business logic, and deploy a web application firewall to protect layer 7 show more ...
