by Shawn | Mar 8, 2021 | Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Security Breach, Technology News
Exactly a month after patching an actively exploited zero-day flaw in Chrome, Google today rolled out fixes for yet another zero-day vulnerability in the world’s most popular web browser that it says is being abused in the wild. Chrome 89.0.4389.72, released by...
by Shawn | Mar 5, 2021 | Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Network Security, Security, Security Breach
A prolific North Korean state-sponsored hacking group has been tied to a new ongoing espionage campaign aimed at exfiltrating sensitive information from organizations in the defense industry through ThreatNeedle malware. Attributing the attacks with high confidence to...
by Shawn | Mar 3, 2021 | Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Network Security, Security, Security Breach
Called CNAME Cloaking, the practice of blurring the distinction between first-party and third-party cookies not only results in leaking sensitive private information without users’ knowledge and consent but also “increases [the] web security threat...
by Shawn | Mar 1, 2021 | Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Security, Security Breach
Called “Shadow attacks” by academics from Ruhr-University Bochum, the technique uses the “enormous flexibility provided by the PDF specification so that shadow documents remain standard-compliant.” The findings were presented yesterday at the...
by Shawn | Feb 26, 2021 | Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Security Breach
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a novel attack that could allow criminals to trick a point of sale terminal into transacting with a victim’s Mastercard contactless card while believing it to be a Visa card. The research, published by a group of...
by Shawn | Feb 24, 2021 | Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Technology News
Microsoft on Thursday said it concluded its probe into the SolarWinds hack, finding that the attackers stole some source code but confirmed there’s no evidence that they abused its internal systems to target other companies or gained access to production...
by Shawn | Feb 22, 2021 | Cybersecurity, Data Breaches
Russia-linked state-sponsored threat actor known as Sandworm has been linked to a three-year-long stealthy operation to hack targets by exploiting an IT monitoring tool called Centreon. The intrusion campaign — which breached “several French entities” — is...
by Shawn | Feb 19, 2021 | Cybersecurity, Security, Technology News
Microsoft today rolled out updates to plug at least 56 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software. One of the bugs is already being actively exploited, and six of them were publicized prior to today, potentially giving attackers a head start in...
by Shawn | Feb 17, 2021 | Cybersecurity, Network Security, Security
SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) is critical to today’s company security. Recently Malwarebytes released a statement on how they were targeted by Nation-State Actors implicated in SolarWinds breach. Their investigation suggested abuse of privileged access...
by Shawn | Feb 15, 2021 | Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, News, Security, Security Breach
New details have emerged about the remote computer intrusion at a Florida water treatment facility last Friday, highlighting a lack of adequate security measures needed to bulletproof critical infrastructure environments and stop a hack. The breach involved...
Recent Comments