Equifax Hackers Stole Info on 693,665 UK Residents

Equifax Inc. said today an investigation into information stolen in the epic data breach the company disclosed on Sept. 7 revealed that intruders took a file containing 15.2 million UK records. The company says it is now working to inform 693,665 U.K. consumers whose data was stolen in the attack...

October 10, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “#Cb Connect” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! October 10, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Carbon Black and IBM...

CVE-2017-15205

The CVE-2017-15205 issue affects Kanboard prior to 1.0.47. An authenticated user can exploit a flaw by altering form data to download attachments from private projects belonging to other users. Root cause is inadequate validation of form data on attachment access, enabling vertical privilege esca...

Equifax Breach Fallout: Your Salary History

In May, KrebsOnSecurity broke a story about lax security at a payroll division of big-three credit bureau Equifax that let identity thieves access personal and financial data on an unknown number of Americans. Incredibly, this same division makes it simple to access detailed salary and employment...

Millions of Accounts From Previous Bitly and Kickstarter Breaches Exposed

By Waqas Its another day with yet another story of a data This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Millions of Accounts From Previous Bitly and Kickstarter Breaches Exposed...

Disqus Hacked: More than 17.5 Million Users' Details Stolen in 2012 Breach

Another day, Another data breach disclosure. This time the popular commenting system has fallen victim to a massive security breach. Disqus, the company which provides a web-based comment plugin for websites and blogs, has admitted that it was breached 5 years ago in July 2012 and hackers stole...

This Week in Security News

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. Below you’ll find a quick recap of topics followed by links to news articles and/or our blog posts providing additional insight. Be sure to check back...

October 5, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Ball-Point Pen” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! October 5, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Advanced Threat Analytics...

Exfiltrates data on installation

Overview The jquey package is malware that attempts to discover and exfiltrate sensitive data such as a user's private SSH key and bash history, sending them to attacker controlled locations. All versions have been unpublished from the npm registry. Recommendation If you have found jquey installe...

All 3 Billion Yahoo Users Were Hacked in 2013 Data Breach

By Uzair Amir If you had an account on Yahoo back in the This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: All 3 Billion Yahoo Users Were Hacked in 2013 Data Breach...

Fear Not: You, Too, Are a Cybercrime Victim!

Maybe you've been feeling left out because you weren't among the lucky few hundred million or billion who had their personal information stolen in either the Equifax or Yahoo! breaches. Well buck up, camper: Both companies took steps to make you feel better today. Yahoo! announced that, our bad!:...

It's 3 Billion! Yes, Every Single Yahoo Account Was Hacked In 2013 Data Breach

The largest known hack of user data in the history just got tripled in size. Yahoo, the internet company that's acquired by Verizon this year, now believes the total number of accounts compromised in the August 2013 data breach, which was disclosed in December last year, was not 1 billion—it's 3...

Equifax Says 145.5M Affected by Breach, Ex-CEO Testifies

Equifax, the credit agency behind this summer’s breach of 143 million Americans, said this week the number of victims implicated in the breach has increased. Paulino do Rego Barros, Jr., the company’s interim CEO, announced Monday that 2.5 million additional Americans were also impacted, bringing...

October 3, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Tom Petty” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! October 3, 2017 - Headlines Equifax Says Cyber Attack May Have Hit 2.5 Million...

Taking Healthcare Threat Protection to the Next Level with HITRUST

Healthcare organizations HCOs worldwide continue to be on the receiving end of cyber-attacks. But if we work together we have both the tools and motivation to turn this around. That’s why Trend Micro has been a long-time partner and advocate of the great work HITRUST is doing to help improve...

Whoops, Turns Out 2.5 Million More Americans Were Affected By Equifax Breach

Equifax data breach was bigger than initially reported, exposing highly sensitive information of more Americans than previously revealed. Credit rating agency Equifax says an additional 2.5 million U.S. consumers were also impacted by the massive data breach the company disclosed last month,...

CVE-2017-9794

When a cluster is operating in secure mode, a user with read privileges for specific data regions can use the gfsh command line utility to execute queries. In Apache Geode before 1.2.1, the query results may contain data from another user's concurrently executing gfsh query, potentially revealing...

Here’s What to Ask the Former Equifax CEO

Richard Smith -- who resigned as chief executive of big-three credit bureau Equifax this week in the wake of a data breach that exposed 143 million Social Security numbers -- is slated to testify in front of no fewer than four committees on Capitol Hill next week. If I were a lawmaker, here are...

Deloitte Hacked

The large accountancy firm Deloitte was hacked, losing client e-mails and files. The hackers had access inside the company's networks for months. Deloitte is doing its best to downplay the severity of this hack, but Brian Krebs reports that the hack "involves the compromise of all administrator...

Amazon's Whole Foods Market Suffers Credit Card Breach In Some Stores

Another day, another data breach. This time Amazon-owned grocery chain has fallen victim to a credit card security breach. Whole Foods Market—acquired by Amazon for $13.7 billion in late August—disclosed Thursday that hackers were able to gain unauthorized access to credit card information for it...