SHEIN-Fashion Shopping Site Suffers Data Breach Affecting 6.5 Million Users

U.S. online fashion retailer SHEIN has admitted that the company has suffered a significant data breach after unknown hackers stole personally identifiable information PII of almost 6.5 million customers. Based in North Brunswick and founded in 2008, SHEIN has become one of the largest online...

British Airways Hack Triggers GDPR Concerns, as World Awaits Windows 0-Day Patch

A swipe of confidential data from almost 400,000 British Airways customers. A string of app takedowns at the Mac App Store after exfiltration findings. A gargantuan data breach at a Chinese hotel chain. An unpatched zero-day Windows bug exploited in the wild. These are some of the security news...

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...

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...

Canadian Telcos Patch an APT-Ready Flaw in Disability Services

Canadian telcos have patched a widespread local file-disclosure flaw in disability services that allow people who are deaf, hard of hearing, or have a speech disorder to place calls through a text telephone or other assistive devices. The vulnerability opens the door for widespread attacks on...

Millions of Telefonica customers’ data exposed after security breach

By Waqas Telefonica, a telecom operator based in Spain, has become a victim of a security breach after hackers managed to exploit a vulnerability that led to the exposure of private data of millions of Telefonica customers while leaking billing data of other customers. The billing data is easily...

DanaBot Trojan Targets Bank Customers In Phishing Scam

The recently-discovered DanaBot banking trojan is making the rounds in a phishing campaign that targets potential victims with fake invoices from software company MYOB. The emails purport to be invoices from MYOB, an Australian multinational corporation that provides tax, accounting and other...

Common Questions and Answers Salesforce ISVs Need to Know for FedRAMP

Many Salesforce Independent Software Vendors ISVs are interested in pursuing FedRAMP to serve federal customers, but have many questions about the process. The four questions below are the most common questions that Coalfire receives from these ISV partners; we have provided some basic responses ...

DomainFactory Hacked—Hosting Provider Asks All Users to Change Passwords

Besides Timehop, another data breach was discovered last week that affects users of one of the largest web hosting companies in Germany, DomainFactory, owned by GoDaddy. The breach initially happened back in last January this year and just emerged last Tuesday when an unknown attacker himself...

Major Vulnerabilities in Foscam Cameras

For the past several months, VDOO’s security research teams have been undertaking broad-scale security research of leading IoT products, from the fields of safety and security. In most cases, the research was carried out together with the device vendors for the sake of efficiency and transparency...

Clustering App Attacks with Machine Learning Part 3: Algorithm Results

In the previous blog posts in this series, we discussed the motivation for clustering attacks and the data used and how to calculate the distance between two attacks using different methods on each feature we extracted. In this final blog post, we’ll discuss the clustering algorithm itself – how ...

Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in NSS affects PowerKVM

Summary PowerKVM is affected by a vulnerability in Network Security Services NSS. IBM has now addressed this vulnerability. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2017-7502 DESCRIPTION: Mozilla Network Security Services NSS, as used in Mozilla Firefox, is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a...

Two major Canadian banks blackmailed after alleged data breach

While the US was celebrating Memorial Day on Monday, Canada was dealing with an unusual data breach affecting two popular financial institutions: Simplii Financial and Bank of Montreal BMO. The CBC broke the story and updated it throughout the day to mention that some 90,000 customers were possib...

Learn How Trillions of DNS Requests Help Improve Security

Akamai's global platform is comprised of 240,000 servers in 3,750 locations within 134 countries. Additionally, our platform interacts with 1.3 billion client devices every day and we ingest 2.5 exabytes of data a year. So why are these stats important? The answer is that this visibility provides...

GDPR causes a flood of new policies

The European Union claims that the General Data Protection Regulation GDPR, which comes to term on May 25, is the most important change in data privacy regulation in 20 years. Many companies have spent months preparing for the changes, working on policy and compliance, and introducing changes to...

Turning the Tables on Cyber Attackers

Today, Carbon Black joins the community of public companies NASDAQ: CBLK. While we are humbled and excited by this milestone, we also acknowledge there’s plenty of progress still to be made. For Carbon Black as a company and the industry as a whole, that progress starts with shifting the balance ...

TSB Bank Disaster

This seems like an absolute disaster: The very short version is that a UK bank, TSB, which had been merged into and then many years later was spun out of Lloyds Bank, was bought by the Spanish bank Banco Sabadell in 2015. Lloyds had continued to run the TSB systems and was to transfer them over t...

My short review of “The Forrester Wave: Vulnerability Risk Management, Q1 2018”

Last week, March 14, Forrester presented new report about Vulnerability Risk Management VRM market. You can purchase it on official site for $2495 USD or get a free reprint on Rapid7 site. Thanks, Rapid7! I've read it and what to share my impressions. I was most surprised by the leaders of the...

How to Keep Your Customers Safe Online – 2018

By Waqas Internet safety is a key concern both professionally and personally This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: How to Keep Your Customers Safe Online - 2018...

Bookme Control Panel Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Bookme Control Panel is an online booking plugin for use in WordPress. A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in the Customers 'Book Me' feature in version 2.0 of Bookme Control Panel, which stems from the program failing to filter user-submitted input. A remote attacker can exploit this...