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Cyber Security Roundup for September 2020
A roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, August 2020.Taking security training courses and passing certification exams are ...
Cyber Security Roundup for May 2020
A roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, April 2020.As well reported, UK foreign exchange firm Travelex business ...
10 Security Blunders that should stay in 2019
Cyber attacks are inevitable, regardless of the size of a business or the sector it operates in. Cyber criminals will try their luck with any business connected to the internet. But as ...
Misconfigured ElasticSearch Cluster Exposed Over 90 Million Records
A security researcher found a misconfigured ElasticSearch cluster that exposed over 90 million personal and businesses data records. On 1 July, GDI Foundation member and an independent security researcher Sanyam Jain found ...
Hundreds of Vulnerable Docker Hosts Exploited by Cryptocurrency Miners
Docker is a technology that allows you to perform operating system level virtualization. An incredible number of companies and production hosts are running Docker to develop, deploy and run applications inside containers ...
Apple Fixes MacOS High Sierra Root Access Vulnerability
Apple has released an emergency fix for an embarrassing vulnerability that allowed people to access the highest privileges account on Mac computers without a password. The vulnerability was disclosed by a user ...
Insecure Storage Buckets Expose 1.8 Billion Online Posts Scraped for U.S. Military
A Pentagon contractor left three storage buckets publicly accessible on Amazon’s S3 service, exposing more than 1.8 billion online posts collected since 2009. The messages, posted by people from around the world, ...
All of Yahoo’s 3 Billion Accounts Compromised in 2013
The massive data breach announced by Yahoo in December was believed to have affected around 1 billion accounts, but it turns out it actually affected the company’s entire user base of around ...
Like Equifax, Thousands of Companies Use Vulnerable Apache Struts Versions
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 ...
