CISO series: Secure your privileged administrative accounts with a phased roadmap

In my role, I often meet with CISOs and security architects who are updating their security strategy to meet the challenges of continuously evolving attacker techniques and cloud platforms. A frequent topic is prioritizing security for their highest value assets, both the assets that have the mos...

Dell resets all customer passwords after security breach

By Waqas The computer technology giant Dell has announced on Wednesday that it has suffered a potential security breach in which hackers attempted to steal customer data from its website Dell.com. The incident took place on November 9th when Dell detected and disrupted an attack aimed at the...

US Postal Service Left 60 Million Users Data Exposed For Over a Year

The United States Postal Service has patched a critical security vulnerability that exposed the data of more than 60 million customers to anyone who has an account at the USPS.com website. The U.S.P.S. is an independent agency of the American federal government responsible for providing postal...

Two TalkTalk hackers jailed for 2015 data breach that cost it £77 million

Two hackers have been sent to prison for their roles in hacking TalkTalk, one of the biggest UK-based telecommunications company, in 2015 and stealing personal information, banking, and credit card details belonging to more than 156,000 customers. Matthew Hanley, 23, and Connor Allsopp, 21, both...

Warranty Tracking System 11.06.3 - 'txtCustomerCode' SQL Injection

Exploit Title: Warranty Tracking System 11.06.3 - 'txtCustomerCode' SQL Injection Dork: N/A Date: 2018-11-14 Exploit Author: Ihsan Sencan Vendor Homepage: http://warrantytrack.org/ Software Link: https://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/project/warrantytrack/warrantytrack%20Rel.11.06.3.zip Version: 11.06....

PT-2018-8827 · Cisco · Cisco Webex Teams

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Cisco Webex Teams affected versions not specified Description: A vulnerability could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to view and modify data for an organization other than their own organization. The issue exists because the affected...

Malware on SHEIN Servers Compromises Data of 6.4M Customers

Email addresses and encrypted passwords of over 6.4 million SHEIN customers were stolen over the summer after the women’s retailer said it suffered a “concerted criminal cyberattack” on its computer network. The data breach occurred between June and August 2018, the company said in a recent...

British Airways Hacked – 380,000 Payment Cards Compromised

British Airways, who describes itself as "The World's Favorite Airline," has confirmed a data breach that exposed personal details and credit-card numbers of up to 380,000 customers and lasted for more than two weeks. So who exactly are victims? In a statement released by British Airways on...

GDPR 101: Monitoring & Maintaining Compliance After the Deadline

Discussions about the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation GDPR reached a crescendo on May 25, the compliance deadline, but many companies continue seeking guidance. The reason: A majority of companies missed the deadline, according to estimates from various sources, including Gartner, Crowd...

Slack: AWS bucket leading to iOS test build code and configuration exposure

@kiyell discovered an open AWS bucket which hosted the source code of the iOS test application, as well as some configuration information and test data relating to that test build. No customer data was exposed or at risk, and we resolved and investigated this issue. Thank you @kiyell for a neat...

Travel Breaches Hit Air Canada and Asia-Pac Hotelier

It’s been a busy week on the data breach front. First, Air Canada said that a breach of around 20,000 mobile app users had exposed passport information. At the same time, millions have been affected by an information heist targeting a Chinese hotel group with 3,500 properties across the...

Fiserv Flaw Exposed Customer Data at Hundreds of Banks

Fiserv, Inc., a major provider of technology services to financial institutions, just fixed a glaring weakness in its Web platform that exposed personal and financial details of countless customers across hundreds of bank Web sites, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Brookfield, Wisc.-based Fiserv...

T-Mobile Hacked — 2 Million Customers' Personal Data Stolen

T-Mobile today confirmed that the telecom giant suffered a security breach on its US servers on August 20 that may have resulted in the leak of "some" personal information of up to 2 million T-Mobile customers. The leaked information includes customers' name, billing zip code, phone number, email...

Salesforce.com Warns Marketing Customers of Data Leakage SNAFU

Cloud behemoth Salesforce.com is warning customers about an API error that may have leaked data for some users of its Marketing Cloud offering. The issue was in play between June 4 to July 18, according to an alert that Salesforce.com sent out to customers Thursday. The issue potentially affected...

CVE-2018-11338

Intuit Lacerte 2017 for Windows in a client/server environment transfers the entire customer list in cleartext over SMB, which allows attackers to 1 obtain sensitive information by sniffing the network or 2 conduct man-in-the-middle MITM attacks via unspecified vectors. The customer list contains...

Dixons Carphone Data Breach Affects 10 Million Customers

Dixons Carphone's 2017 data breach was worse than initially anticipated. In an announcement on Monday, Dixons Carphone, one of the largest consumer electronics and telecommunication retailers in Europe, admitted that the breach affected around 10 million customers, up from an initial estimate of...

Dixons Carphone Data Breach Affects 10 Million Customers

Dixons Carphone's 2017 data breach was worse than initially anticipated. In an announcement on Monday, Dixons Carphone, one of the largest consumer electronics and telecommunication retailers in Europe, admitted that the breach affected around 10 million customers, up from an initial estimate of...

PT-2018-10495 · Intuit · Intuit Lacerte

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Intuit Lacerte version 2017 Intuit Lacerte versions prior to 2017 Description: The software transfers the entire customer list in cleartext over SMB, allowing attackers to obtain sensitive information by sniffing the network or conduct...

Why would customers choose me?

Competitive Differentiation Guide for Financial Services in Digital India We are a young nation 1.3 billion strong, of which just about 500 million are active internet users. Not a small number by any means. We have world's second largest pool of internet users and our online population is larger...

CVE-2018-14608

Thomson Reuters UltraTax CS 2017 on Windows has a password protection option; however, the level of protection might be inconsistent with some customers' expectations because the data is directly accessible in cleartext. Specifically, it stores customer data in unique directories...