Measuring Healthcare Data Leaks and Security Flaws at Internet Scale

Systems that process medical data should be meticulously secured. Yet, network services in healthcare environments often fail to implement basic security measures. For example, previous studies showed that network segmentation flaws led to DICOM systems leaking millions of patient records. In...

WordPress Symposium Plug-In File Upload Vulnerabiilty

Since the disclosure of a serious file-upload vulnerability in WordPress Symposium and the public availability of proof-of-concept exploit code, attacks against sites running the plug-in are starting to raise concern. Researchers at Trustwave SpiderLabs on Tuesday said they had snared a number of...