Threats & Breaches
Bitglass Security Spotlight: Quora and Healthcare Breaches
Here are the top cybersecurity stories of recent weeks: 100 million Quora users affected by data breach First multi-state healthcare breach impacts 3.9 million Australia’s anti-encryption bill becomes law Unprotected MongoDB server ...
What’s the Problem with SMB 1, and Should You Worry About SMB 2 and 3?
For a certain kind of secure communication, Server Message Block (SMB) is no longer suited for the task. Windows machines use SMB to pass files around a network. Printers, mail servers, and ...
Equifax Data Breach Details Released, More Google+ API Bugs, Supermicro Strikes Back – WB47
Watch this episode on our YouTube channel! This is your Shared Security Weekly Blaze for December 17th 2018 with your host, Tom Eston. In this week’s episode: Equifax data breach details released, ...
WordPress 5.0 Gets Security Patch a Week After Release
Only a week has passed since the release of WordPress 5.0—a new major version codenamed “Bebo”—and the WordPress team has already pushed out a security update for it. WordPress 5.0.1, released Dec ...
Third-Party Breach Affects Credit Card Info of 47,000 Patients
Weak security in third-party vendors strike again in the medical world. Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Frisco hospital in North Texas announced payment information, including partial credit card info, of ...
F5 Labs 2018 Phishing & Fraud Report
The F5 Labs 2018 Phishing & Fraud Report is out! In this report, the F5 Labs team specifically investigated the rise of phishing and fraud during the ‘holiday shopping season,’ beginning in ...
Microsoft Patches Another Actively Exploited Zero-Day Vulnerability
Microsoft released security updates for its products Dec. 11, fixing 38 vulnerabilities including a privilege escalation flaw in the Windows kernel that has been exploited by cyberespionage groups since October. The zero-day ...
Attack Kit Hijacks DNS of Home and Business Routers
For the past year, attackers have been using an exploit kit that changes the DNS settings of home and small-business routers through users’ browsers. The tool, dubbed Novidade, was first used in ...
2018 In Review: Healthcare Under Attack
Radware’s ERT and Threat Research Center monitored an immense number of events over the last year, giving us a chance to review and analyze attack patterns to gain further insight into today’s ...
Saipem Identified a Digital Attack against Some of Its Servers
Italian oil and gas industry contractor Saipem has announced that it identified a digital attack against some of its servers. On 10 December, Saipem published a statement on its website in which ...
