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Two thirds of UK organisations are uninsured against the financial impact of a data breach, a survey has revealed. The Risk:Value 2018 Report by NTT Security discovered that only 29% of organisations have dedicated cyber insurance in place, despite 81% of senior executives touting insurance against data breaches as “vital”. According to the report, which examines business attitudes to risk and the value of information security, UK businesses would have to spend £1 million, on average, to rec
Fraudsters Hijack Mobile Numbers to Crack Open Bank Accounts In Australia, it can take as few as 15 minutes to steal someone's phone number, a type of attack known as SIM hijacking. Such attacks are rising, but mobile operators have no plans to change the authentication required around number porting, which can be set in motion online with minimal personal information.
My last blog about Vormetric Application Encryption covered new RESTful APIs and it revealed that those APIs provide quite a bit of granular control in the use of encryption keys. This enhances security by reducing the “attack surface” in an IT environment while maintaining IT efficiency with centralized access control policies. Combining RESTful flexibility with granular controls gives you the best of both worlds.
Facebook hacked – Attackers exploited a vulnerability in the “View As” feature that allowed them to steal Facebook access tokens of 50 Million Users. Facebook hacked, this is news that is rapidly spreading across the Internet. A few hours ago, Facebook announced that an attack on its computer network exposed the personal information of roughly 50 million users.
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The U.S. Secret Service is warning financial institutions about a recent uptick in a form of ATM skimming that involves cutting cupcake-sized holes in a cash machine and then using a combination of magnets and medical devices to siphon customer account data directly from the card reader inside the ATM. According to a non-public alert distributed to banks this week and shared with KrebsOnSecurity by a financial industry source, the Secret Service has received multiple reports about a complex form
Port Remains Open and Accessible to Ships, Officials Say Several days after the Port of San Diego was hit by a crypto-locking ransomware attack, incident response efforts remain underway and many port systems remain offline. Port officials say the attacker has demanded a ransom, payable in bitcoin, for the promise of a decryption key.
Google Project Zero disclosed details for a high severity Linux kernel a use-after-free vulnerability tracked as CVE-2018-1718. The vulnerability is a use-after-free tracked as CVE-2018-17182, it was discovered by Google Project Zero’s Jann Horn. The vulnerability was introduced in August 2014 with the release of version 3.16 of the Linux kernel. The issue could be exploited by an attacker trigger a DoS condition or to execute arbitrary code with root privileges on the vulnerable system.
Facebook said today some 90 million of its users may get forcibly logged out of their accounts after the company fixed a rather glaring security vulnerability in its Web site that may have let attackers hijack user profiles. In a short blog post published this afternoon, Facebook said hackers have been exploiting a vulnerability in Facebook’s site code that impacted a feature called “View As,” which lets users see how their profile appears to other people. “This allowed t
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The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.
Massive Credit Bureau Stored Users' Plaintext Passwords in Testing Environment Massive, well-resourced companies are still using live customer data - including their plaintext passwords - in testing environments, violating not just good development practices but also privacy laws. That's yet another security failure takeaway from last year's massive Equifax breach.
The latest samples of the HNS bot were designed to target Android devices having the wireless debugging feature ADB enabled. The Hide and Seek (HNS) IoT botnet was first spotted early this year, since its discovery the authors continuously evolved its code. The IoT botnet appeared in the threat landscape in January, when it was first discovered on January 10th by malware researchers from Bitdefender, then it disappeared for a few days, and appeared again a few weeks later infecting in a few
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Uber agrees to $148 million settlement with US States and the District of Columbia over the massive 2016 data breach that exposed personal data of 57 million of its users. In November 2017, the Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi announced that hackers broke into the company database and accessed the personal data (names, email addresses and cellphone numbers) of 57 million of its users, the disconcerting revelation was that the company covered up the hack for more than a year.
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While “technical debt” is a term that’s frequently used by technologists, the implication and understanding of it tends to be opaque to the business until it’s too late - just look at how Nokia lost the mobile market that it helped create. The business and finance side of Nokia had the usual tools for assessing financial risks - but why do we not have an equivalent tool for the operational or existential risks when the debts come from the more intangible investment in technology?
Many software teams have migrated their testing and production workloads to the cloud, yet development environments often remain tied to outdated local setups, limiting efficiency and growth. This is where Coder comes in. In our 101 Coder webinar, you’ll explore how cloud-based development environments can unlock new levels of productivity. Discover how to transition from local setups to a secure, cloud-powered ecosystem with ease.
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