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Another Cloud Storage Leak Exposes Verizon IT Files

by Lucian Constantin on September 22, 2017
Security researchers have found yet another Amazon S3 storage container with sensitive data that was publicly accessible to anyone on the internet. The S3 bucket contained around 100MB of data, including internal files, usernames, passwords and email messages from U.S. telecommunications provider Verizon Wireless. Many of the files were associated with an internal middleware application
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CCleaner Supply Chain Attack Targeted Technology Companies

by Lucian Constantin on September 21, 2017
New evidence shows the hackers who infected the installers for the popular CCleaner system optimization tool were primarily targeting the program’s business users. There are also links between the malware code and a well-known Chinese cyber-espionage group. The malware-infected installers for 32-bit versions of CCleaner and CCleaner Cloud released in August were installed on more
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Like Equifax, Thousands of Companies Use Vulnerable Apache Struts Versions

by Lucian Constantin on September 20, 2017
U.S. credit monitoring bureau Equifax has been heavily criticized for its failure to patch a known critical vulnerability in the Apache Struts web development framework, an oversight that led to a massive data breach affecting 143 million people. A new report shows that poor patch management practices are common in enterprise environments and that Equifax
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Russian Criminal Monetized Identity Theft for $50 Million

by Christopher Burgess on September 19, 2017
With the plethora of data breaches that have occurred over the past five years reaching a crescendo with the Equifax breach, it should surprise no one that a criminal’s end goal is the use of identity theft to effect monetization. Yes, each piece of personal identifying data, financial data or medical information on an individual
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Attackers Use Undocumented Word Feature to Fingerprint Victims’ Software

by Lucian Constantin on September 18, 2017
Attackers are taking advantage of an undocumented feature in Microsoft Word to gather information about potential victims by using seemingly harmless documents that have no active code embedded in them. The technique was discovered by researchers from Kaspersky Lab in OLE2-formatted documents distributed as attachments to spearphishing emails. The files abused a feature called INCLUDEPICTURE
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The EU’s Looming GDPR Privacy Regulation Should Be Scaring You

Scot Finnie by Scot Finnie on September 18, 2017
If your company does business in any of the 28 member countries of the European Union, privacy is about to become a fierce preoccupation for the C-suite, thanks to the EU’s forthcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). According to a recent Trend Micro survey, 79 percent of business leaders who have read the requirements of
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