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Houzz Urges Password Resets After Data Breach
Interior decorating website Houzz on Friday issued a notice that user data – including usernames, passwords and IP addresses – had been accessed by an “unauthorized third party.” Houzz connects consumers to varying home-goods departments or professionals for purchasing furniture. The Palo Alto,...
Airbus Suffers Data Breach, Some Employees' Data Exposed
European airplane maker Airbus admitted yesterday a data breach of its "Commercial Aircraft business" information systems that allowed intruders to gain access to some of its employees' personal information. Though the company did not elaborate on the nature of the hack, it claimed that the...
Feds Dismantle Dark Web Credentials Market
Law-enforcement agencies across the world have taken aim at Dark Web denizens this week, with the takedown of a credentials marketplace as well as continued action against former users of the Webstresser.org DDoS-for-hire site. An international law-enforcement operation has dismantled the xDedic...
Someone Hacked PHP PEAR Site and Replaced the Official Package Manager
Beware! If you have downloaded PHP PEAR package manager from its official website in past 6 months, we are sorry to say that your server might have been compromised. Last week, the maintainers at PEAR took down the official website of the PEAR pear-php.net after they found that someone has replac...
Unprotected Government Server Exposes Years of FBI Investigations
A massive government data belonging to the Oklahoma Department of Securities ODS was left unsecured on a storage server for at least a week, exposing a whopping 3 terabytes of data containing millions of sensitive files. The unsecured storage server, discovered by Greg Pollock, a researcher with...
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...