Equifax
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, ...
Equifax nemesis Apache Struts found vulnerable to 2-year old unpatched flaw; workaround available
Remember how an unpatched flaw in Apache Struts caused one of the biggest data breaches in history? It could happen again, if those using Apache Struts versions 2.3.x or lower fail to ...
UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) Slap Fines on Facebook and Equifax
Facebook was fined £500,000 by the UK's Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for its role in the Cambridge Analytica data scandal. [...] ...
Manager who worked on Equifax’s breach website sentenced for insider trading
In August 2017, Sudhakar Reddy Bonthu, a production development manager in Equifax’s software management team was given a project codenamed “Sparta.” Bonthu’s bosses told him that the project was for one of ...
Credit Freezes are Free: Let the Ice Age Begin
It is now free in every U.S. state to freeze and unfreeze your credit file and that of your dependents, a process that blocks identity thieves and others from looking at private ...
Equifax fined £500,000 for ginormous 2017 breach
More than a year after hackers breached credit reporting agency Equifax to steal 146 million customer records, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued the company with a £500,000 fine – ...
ICO to Fine Equifax £500,000 for 2017 Data Breach
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) of the United Kingdom announced it will fine Equifax £500,000 for a data breach that occurred in 2017. In a monetary penalty notice filed on 19 September, ...
Weekly Blaze – Malware-Less Email Attacks, Equifax Breach Updates, Vizio Class Action Lawsuit
This is the Shared Security Weekly Blaze for September 17, 2018 sponsored by Security Perspectives – Your Source for Tailored Security Awareness Training and Assessment Solutions and Silent Pocket. This episode was ...
In a Few Days, Credit Freezes Will Be Fee-Free
Later this month, all of the three major consumer credit bureaus will be required to offer free credit freezes to all Americans and their dependents. Maybe you've been holding off freezing your ...
Critical Apache Struts flaw just waiting to be exploited; PoC reported in the wild
Organizations relying on the Apache Struts framework should patch their servers ASAP, or at the very least ensure the namespace is always set within their infrastructure, as cybercrooks already have a proof-of-concept ...