Incident Of The Week: Facebook Fails To Secure Passwords - Cyber Security Hub

news_google_com Saturday, March 23, 2019 12:25:00 AM CET | info [other]

On March 21, 2019, cyber security writer Brian Krebs reported in his KrebsOnSecurity blog that hundreds of millions of Facebook users had their account passwords stored in plain text and searchable by thousands of Facebook employees in some cases dating back to 2012....

Cisco IP Phone 8800 Web-based Management Interface URL weak authentication

vuldb Saturday, March 23, 2019 10:01:00 AM CET | info [other]

A vulnerability was found in Cisco IP Phone 8800 . It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects a code block of the component Web-based Management Interface . The manipulation as part of a URL leads to a weak authentication vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-287 ....

US disaster relief agency exposed private data of 2.3m survivors - BBC News

TopStoriesGoogleNews Saturday, March 23, 2019 1:16:00 PM CET | info [other]

Image copyright Reuters Image caption Those exposed by the breach included survivors of Hurricane Harvey, which hit Texas in 2017. The US Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) exposed 2.3 million disaster survivors to possible identity theft, according to a new report....

NC County Government Suffers Third Ransomware Infection in 6 Years

securityboulevard Friday, March 22, 2019 2:50:00 PM CET | info [other]

. A county government in North Carolina has suffered a ransomware infection for the third time in the past six years. According to a statement published on its website, the Orange County government observed on 18 March that a virus had infected its network....

Google Photos flaw could've let hackers stalk your adventures

THE_INQUIRER Thursday, March 21, 2019 4:14:00 PM CET | info [other]

HACKERS COULD HAVE TRACKED your location based on a flaw in Google Photos , which would have allowed them to see where, when, and with whom your photos were taken. The bug was spotted by security researcher Ron Masas from Imperva, who noted that if hackers could trick folks into opening a malicious.......

Microsoft Brings Defender ATP Platform to macOS

blog_DataBreachTodaycomRSSSyndication Friday, March 22, 2019 11:00:00 AM CET | info [other]

Photo: Thunderclap.io A decade or more ago, it would have been unthinkable: Microsoft developing an anti-malware platform for macOS. See Also: 10 Incredible Ways You Can Be Hacked Through Email & How To Stop The Bad Guys But that's exactly what Microsoft announced on Thursday....

Russian APT groups target European governments ahead of May Elections

ITSecurityNews2 Saturday, March 23, 2019 1:17:00 AM CET | info [other]

News and articles about cyber security, information security, vulnerabilities, exploits, patches, releases, software, features, hacks, laws, spam, viruses, malware, trojans. Russian APT groups are targeting European governments for cyber-espionage purposes ahead of the upcoming European elections....

Former Hacktivist: Why Persistence Is Key

BankInfoSecurity Wednesday, March 20, 2019 7:39:00 PM CET | info [other]

Hector Monsegur keynotes ISMG's Fraud Summit. For as long as Hector Monesgur has been online, he's broken the rules. See Also: Webinar | Beyond Managed Security Services: SOC-as-a-Service for Financial Institutions There's the teenage curiosity that got him interested in computers, progressing from.......

ZOLL notifies over two hundred thousand patients of data exposure

cyware Friday, March 22, 2019 12:48:00 PM CET | info [other]

The medical device manufacturing company allegedly witnessed this incident sometime between November and December 2018. It was discovered that a server migration from a third-party service provider led to the exposure of data. ZOLL Medical Corporation, popularly known as ZOLL, has informed patients of a data breach incident that occurred last year....

Medtronic’s implantable heart defibrillators vulnerable to hack

securityaffairs Friday, March 22, 2019 10:25:00 PM CET | info [other]

Multiple vulnerabilities in the heart defibrillators could be exploited by attackers to remotely control the devices, potentially putting the lives of patients at risk. An implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) is a device implantable inside the human body that performs cardioversion, defibrillation, and pacing of the heart....