Deloitte breached by hackers for months

On September 25, 2017, Deloitte announced that they detected a breach of the firm’s global email server via a poorly secured admin email in March of this year. Further, the attackers most likely had control of the server since November of 2016. Deloitte’s initial statement indicated that only six...

CVE-2017-14527

CVE-2017-14527 affects OpenText Documentum Webtop 6.8.0160.0073. The vulnerability is an XML External Entity (XXE) injection in Webtop, triggered by crafted XML—specifically in a DTD within a request to xda/com/documentum/ucf/server/transport/impl/GAIRConnector or via a crafted XML file in a Medi...

2016 SEC Hack May Have Benefited Insider Trading

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the watchdog of Wall Street, said this week that hackers infiltrated one of its systems last year, something that likely facilitated insider trading. The SEC waited nearly nine months to disclose the hack. SEC Chairman Jay Clayton devoted four sentence...

Passwords For 540,000 Car Tracking Devices Leaked Online

Another day, another news about a data breach, though this is something disconcerting. Login credentials of more than half a million records belonging to vehicle tracking device company SVR Tracking have leaked online, potentially exposing the personal data and vehicle details of drivers and...

Don’t let these gaming threats give you a Game Over

With EGX, the biggest gaming event in the UK opening its doors today, we thought it'd be timely to remind you of some of the threats currently facing gamers. No matter what type of game, client, or system you use, there's always something waiting to try and give you a bad day where the safety of...

Experian Site Can Give Anyone Your Credit Freeze PIN

An alert reader recently pointed my attention to a free online service offered by big-three credit bureau Experian that allows anyone to request the personal identification number PIN needed to unlock a consumer credit file that was previously frozen at Experian. Experian's page for retrieving...

The Equifax Data Breach: What Do I Do Next?

On 8 September, credit reporting agency Equifax confessed to a major data breach. It affects 143 million Americans – nearly half of the US population – and 100,000 Canadian consumers. Unfortunately, this means that the hackers may have access to highly sensitive personal and financial information...

Equifax Breach: Setting the Record Straight

Bloomberg published a story this week citing three unnamed sources who told the publication that Equifax experienced a breach earlier this year which predated the intrusion that the big-three credit bureau announced on Sept. 7. To be clear, this earlier breach at Equifax is not a new finding and...

SEC Discloses Hackers Broke Into Edgar Corporate Filing System Last Year

This month has been full of breaches. Now, the Securities and Exchange Commission SEC, the top U.S. markets regulator, has disclosed that hackers managed to hack into its financial document filing system and may have illegally profited from the stolen information. On Wednesday, the SEC announced...

CCleaner Command and Control Causes Concern

This post was authored by Edmund Brumaghin, Earl Carter, Warren Mercer, Matthew Molyett, Matthew Olney, Paul Rascagneres and Craig Williams.Note: This blog post discusses active research by Talos into a new threat. This information should be considered preliminary and will be updated as research...

FTC Releases Alerts on Protecting Against Identity Theft

The Federal Trade Commission FTC has released two alerts to educate consumers on recommended protections against identity theft after the recent data breach at Equifax. Users should consider placing security freezes with the three major credit reporting agencies: Equifax, Transunion, and Experian...

Apache Struts, RCE and Managing App Risk

People used to argue about whether cyber security is a business problem or a technical problem. But this frames the issue poorly. “Problem” and “solution” imply that there is a definitive “solve.” Cybercrime isn’t a technical problem that can be definitively solved. It is an inherent business ris...

Vevo Music Video Service Hacked — 3.12TB of Internal Data Leaked

OurMine is in headlines once again—this time for breaching the popular video streaming service Vevo. After hunting down social media accounts of HBO and defacing WikiLeaks website, the infamous self-proclaimed group of white hat hackers OurMine have hacked Vevo and leaked about 3.12 TB worth of...

OurMine hacks video hosting service Vevo; leaks 3.12TB data online

By Waqas Vevo Becomes Victim of Targeted Data Breach OurMine Hackers This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: OurMine hacks video hosting service Vevo; leaks 3.12TB data online...

Equifax Hackers Stole 200k Credit Card Accounts in One Fell Swoop

Visa and MasterCard are sending confidential alerts to financial institutions across the United States this week, warning them about more than 200,000 credit cards that were stolen in the epic data breach announced last week at big-three credit bureau Equifax. At first glance, the private notices...

Moving Forward and Backward From the Equifax breach

By now most financially or technically savvy people are aware of the breach disclosed by Equifax on September 7th. Equifax reports that the incident affected 143 million Americans, which is well over half of the estimated 250 million adults in the United States. The data accessed is as sensitive ...

Lessons Learned from the Equifax Disaster

143 million U.S. consumers, Equifax.com users who may have been affected by the the worst data breach in history are receiving all sorts of advice including a free TrustedID product license from Equifax. But despite numerous public reports about the incident, there are still many important...

Potential Phishing Scams Related to Equifax Data Breach

The Federal Trade Commission FTC has released an alert on phishing attacks related to the Equifax data breach. Phishing attacks try to trick message recipients into sharing sensitive information with cyber criminals. FTC warns consumers to be wary of calls or emails purporting to be from Equifax...

Equifax Suffered Data Breach After It Failed to Patch Old Apache Struts Flaw

The massive Equifax data breach that exposed highly sensitive data of as many as 143 million people was caused by exploiting a flaw in Apache Struts framework, which Apache patched over two months earlier of the security incident, Equifax has confirmed. Credit rating agency Equifax is yet another...

On the Equifax Data Breach

Last Thursday, Equifax reported a data breach that affects 143 million US customers, about 44% of the population. It's an extremely serious breach; hackers got access to full names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses, driver's license numbers -- exactly the sort of information...