Cyber Security Newsfeeds from around the world
Today, on SAP’s Security Patch Day, the company published 17 security notes , including a few that had been published during the month after the last Patch Day. Two notes tagged as Hot News and three tagged as High Priority excel over the rest , includ…
Continue ReadingA newly identified exploit kit is targeting home and small office routers in an attempt to compromise the mobile devices or desktop computers connected to the routers, according to Trend Micro. Dubbed Novidade, the exploit kit employs cross-site reques…
Continue ReadingEquifax didn’t have clear “lines of authority” for ensuring digital security and failed to patch its systems when a vulnerability was publicly disclosed in 2017, according to the report. Driven by an aggressive growth campaign, Equifax began in 2005 to…
Continue Reading“Had the company taken action to address its observable security issues prior to this cyber attack, the data breach could have been prevented,” according to the report, which was released Monday and prepared by the committee’s Republican staff. Equifax…
Continue ReadingFour things every CEO should know about ransomware
Four things every CEO should know about ransomware.
Dr Sandra Bell, Sungard Availability Services head of resilience consulting (Europe), highlights some important truths about ransomware. It’s hard …
Continue ReadingThis involved sending malspam emails in the guise of Thanksgiving cards, containing email subjects such as happy “Thanksgiving day wishes”, “Thanksgiving wishes” and “the Thanksgiving day congratulation!” These emails contained malicious attachments, o…
Continue ReadingTelegram, Whatsapp and Signal vulnerable to session hijacking, using side channel attacks. Attackers can create a shadow session to spy on or impersonate the victim. Ever since the origin of the internet, messaging apps have been one of the most widely…
Continue ReadingDecember 10, 2018 The WordPress security company, “Wordfence,” found that unknown threat actors had managed to compromise approximately 20,000 WordPress websites. The actors compromised the websites by brute force-attacking administrator account creden…
Continue ReadingRob Joyce speaks Oct. 18, 2018, at CyberTalks in Washington, D.C. (CyberScoop)
Written by Dec 11, 2018 | CYBERSCOOP. Jeff Stone The U.S. government again is concerned about Chinese cyber-operations, a senior National Security Agency official said Tues…
Continue ReadingCheck Point’s latest Global Threat Index reveals the Emotet botnet rising through the top malware list after several seasonal campaigns, as Coinhive remains at no.1 for 12 th consecutive month. Check Point’s researchers identified a number of seasonal …
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