Ryuk Ransomware Attack: Rush to Attribution Misses the Point

ARCHIVED STORY Ryuk Ransomware Attack: Rush to Attribution Misses the Point By John Fokker · January 09, 2019 Senior analyst Ryan Sherstobitoff contributed to this report. During the past week, an outbreak of Ryuk ransomware that impeded newspaper printing services in the United States has garner...

20-Year-Old Man Arrested For Carrying Out Germany's Biggest Data Leak

German federal police have arrested a 20-year-old local student for stealing and publishing a massive trove of personal data of hundreds of politicians, journalists and other public figures last month. The young man, whose identity has not been revealed by the police, was arrested after police...

Hackers Leak Personal Data from Hundreds of German Politicians On Twitter

Germany has been hit with the biggest hack in its history. A group of unknown hackers has leaked highly-sensitive personal data from more than 100 German politicians, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Brandenburg's prime minister Dietmar Woidke, along with some German artists, journalist...

FBI Seizes 15 DDoS-For-Hire Websites, 3 Operators Charged

The FBI just saved the Christmas. The U.S. Justice Department announced earlier today that the FBI has seized domains of 15 "DDoS-for-hire" websites and charged three individuals running some of these services. DDoS-for-hire, or "Booter" or "Stresser," services rent out access to a network of...

Mayday! NASA Warns Employees of Personal Information Breach

Another day, another data breach. This time it's the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA NASA today confirmed a data breach that may have compromised personal information of some of its current and former employees after at least one of the agency's servers was hacked...

WSJ Webpage Defaced to Support PewDiePie

UPDATE A webpage owned by the Wall Street Journal was hacked on Monday, in an attempt to promote YouTube celebrity “PewDiePie.” The incident comes on the heels of a separate hack relating to the Swedish YouTuber, comedian and video game commentator, whose given name is Felix Kjellberg. Over the...

Forrester Finds Carbon Black’s Predictive Security Cloud to have 261% ROI

Your endpoints are one of the most targeted assets in your organization—in 2017 alone, more than 50% of organizations experienced a data breach of some kind.1 At Carbon Black, we understand this risk, and are committed to providing the best possible endpoint protection. In order to demonstrate...

Manafort and Cohen Sentencing Documents Put Donald Trump in Spotlight

The Mueller investigation has a long way to go, but the worst case scenario seems increasingly likely...

14 Questions Robert Mueller Knows the Answer To

The Russia investigation's known unknowns give valuable hints about the special counsel's next moves...

Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Endgame May Be in Sight

Recent developments in the special counsel investigation indicate that things are about to heat up...

Zendesk: Blind XSS via Suspended Ticket Recovery

A cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability was reported to us. We validated the issue, investigated to ensure it wasn't exploited, and implemented a remediation to all customers. Big thanks to @trimatra-sec who was a pleasure to work with!...

3ve – Fraudulent Online Advertising

The Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have released a joint Technical Alert TA on a major online ad fraud operation—referred to by the U.S. Government as "3ve." NCCIC encourages users and administrators to review Alert TA18-331A: 3ve – Major Online Ad Fraud...

HPSBHF03600 rev. 2 - Insecure Handling of BIOS and AMT Passwords

Potential Security Impact Information Disclosure Source: HP, HP Product Security Response Team PSRT Reported by: Intel VULNERABILITY SUMMARY A potential security vulnerability has been identified with the Intel platform code firmware included in certain Intel vPro Processor families with AMT...

Partner Perspectives: Collaborate and Consolidate with King & Union and Carbon Black

Peter Prizio Jr. is the Senior Product Manager for King & Union. One of the biggest challenges facing security organizations today is dealing with the overwhelming number of alerts received each and every day. A staggering 27 percent of IT professionals report receiving more than one million aler...

The Mueller Investigation May Be Safe Despite Matt Whitaker

Robert Mueller's work as special counsel may seem imperiled by the acting attorney general, but there's plenty of reason for optimism...

Robert Mueller Has Already Told You Everything You Need To Know

With the exception of President Trump’s legal team, no one has been watching the Mueller investigation more closely than Garrett Graff...

30 Million Facebook Accounts Were Hacked: Check If You're One of Them

Late last month Facebook announced its worst-ever security breach that allowed an unknown group of hackers to steal secret access tokens for millions of accounts by taking advantage of a flaw in the 'View As' feature. At the time of the initial disclosure, Facebook estimated that the number of...

Facebook Finds 'No Evidence' Hackers Accessed Connected Third-Party Apps

When Facebook last weekend disclosed a massive data breach—that compromised access tokens for more than 50 million accounts—many feared that the stolen tokens could have been used to access other third-party services, including Instagram and Tinder, through Facebook login. Good news is that...

Facebook Data Breach Impacts Almost 50 Million Accounts

Facebook on Friday said that hackers have exploited a flaw in its platform that left the access tokens of almost 50 million Facebook accounts ripe for the taking. Access tokens are the digital keys that keep users logged into Facebook so they don’t need to re-enter their password every time they...

16-Year-Old Boy Who Hacked Apple's Private Systems Gets No Jail Time

An Australian teenager who pleaded guilty to break into Apple's private systems multiple times over several months and download some 90GB of secure files has avoided conviction and will not serve time in prison. An Australian Children's Court has given the now 19-year-old adult defendant, who was...