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Multiple Danish Banks Disrupted By DDoS Cyber-Attack
PRIVACY PRIVACY The attack also affected IT financial industry solutions developer Bankdata Read More
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Sensitive Files From San Francisco Transit Police Allegedly Leaked
PRIVACY PRIVACY The leaked files include some 120,000 files, with specific allegations of child abuse Read More
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Customer and Employee Data the Top Prize for Hackers – Imperva
PRIVACY PRIVACY Customer and employee data accounts for almost half all stolen data while credit cards and password see a decline Read More
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Applications Five Years or Older Likely to have Security Flaws
PRIVACY PRIVACY Veracode’s 2023 State of Software Security Report is focused on flaw introduction Read More
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Improve your AWS security posture, Step 2: Avoid direct internet access to AWS resources
PRIVACY PRIVACY In the first blog in this series, we discussed setting up IAM properly. Now we’re moving on to the second step, avoiding direct internet access to AWS resources. When AWS resources like EC2 instances or S3 buckets are directly accessible via the Internet, they are vulnerable to attack. For example, brute force attacks…
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Over 100 CVEs Addressed in First Patch Tuesday of 2023
PRIVACY PRIVACY Microsoft’s January Patch Tuesday resolved over 100 CVEs, including an actively exploited zero day Read More
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Timeline of the latest LastPass data breaches
PRIVACY PRIVACY On November 30, 2022, password manager LastPass informed customers of a cybersecurity incident following unusual activity within a third-party cloud storage service. While LastPass claims that users’ passwords remain safely encrypted, it admitted that certain elements of customers’ information have been exposed. The security incident was the latest to affect the service in…
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Data leak exposes information of 10,000 French social security beneficiaries
PRIVACY PRIVACY [Editor’s note: This article originally appeared on the Le Monde Informatique website.] More than 10,000 beneficiaries of a local branch of the French social security agency CAF, or Family Allowance Fund, saw their data exposed for about 18 months, after a file containing personal information was sent to a service provider. The mistake,…
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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, January 2023 Edition
PRIVACY PRIVACY Microsoft today released updates to fix nearly 100 security flaws in its Windows operating systems and other software. Highlights from the first Patch Tuesday of 2023 include a zero-day vulnerability in Windows, printer software flaws reported by the U.S. National Security Agency, and a critical Microsoft SharePoint Server bug that allows a remote,…
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Intel boosts VM security, guards against stack attacks in new Xeon release
PRIVACY PRIVACY Intel today announced the rollout of the fourth generation of its Xeon family of server chipsets, detailing several new features under the company’s confidential computing umbrella of security features. Improvements to Intel’s trusted execution environment and a new technique for combatting jump- and return-oriented programming attacks were the most notable upgrades. Xeon’s fourth…