Cryptomining containers caught coining cryptocurrency covertly

In traditional software development, programmers code an application in one computing environment before deploying it to a similar, but often slightly different environment. This leads to bugs or errors that only show up when the software is deployed—exactly when you need them least. To solve for...

CVE-2021-30156

An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.31.12 and 1.32.x through 1.35.x before 1.35.2. Special:Contributions can leak that a "hidden" user exists...

CVE-2021-30156

MediaWiki prior to 1.31.12 and 1.32.x through 1.35.x prior to 1.35.2 is affected. The vulnerability in Special:Contributions can leak that a hidden user exists. Remediation: upgrade to MediaWiki 1.31.12 or 1.35.2 (or later).

Waking up to the new realities of privacy risk and the need for focused expertise

Last month, Coalfire announced that our certification body was awarded yet another of many "firsts." In this scenario, Coalfire was the first to expand its registration to a second accreditation body as part of its certification services related to ISO 27701, a framework that governs the activiti...

NIST and HIPAA: Is There a Password Connection?

When dealing with user data, it's essential that we design our password policies around compliance. These policies are defined both internally and externally. While companies uphold their own password standards, outside forces like HIPAA and NIST have a heavy influence. Impacts are defined by...

NIST and HIPAA: Is There a Password Connection?

When dealing with user data, it's essential that we design our password policies around compliance. These policies are defined both internally and externally. While companies uphold their own password standards, outside forces like HIPAA and NIST have a heavy influence. Impacts are defined by...

Using Aviary to Analyze Post-Compromise Threat Activity in M365 Environments

Aviary is a new dashboard that CISA and partners developed to help visualize and analyze outputs from its Sparrow detection tool released in December 2020. Sparrow helps network defenders detect possible compromised accounts and applications in Azure/Microsoft O365 environments. CISA created...

Facebook: Stolen Data Scraped from Platform in 2019

The leak of personal data from more than 533 million Facebook users was scraped from their profiles by malicious actors because of a security flaw in the company’s platform prior to September 2019, the social media giant said Tuesday. Threat actors posted that data to a public hacker forum over t...

Signal Adds Cryptocurrency Support

According to Wired, Signal is adding support for the cryptocurrency MobileCoin, "a form of digital cash designed to work efficiently on mobile devices while protecting users privacy and even their anonymity." Moxie Marlinspike, the creator of Signal and CEO of the nonprofit that runs it, describe...

Chinese Hackers Selling Intimate Stolen Camera Footage

Stolen videos captured by tens of thousands of security cameras at private properties throughout China are now for sale across social media, marketed as sex tapes. That’s according to the South China Morning Post, which reported that the cost of each “tape” varies, depending on how salacious the...

Imperva’s Comprehensive Data Security Platform for Cloud, Explained

Imperva recently introduced the industry’s first database-agnostic security platform specifically built for cloud. The Data Security solution unifies security management for organizations’ entire data environment, supporting databases wherever they’re hosted, including managed database services...

Has Facebook leaked your phone number?

Unless you keep your social media at a pole’s distance, you have probably heard that an absolutely enormous dataset—containing over 500 million phone numbers—has been made public. These phone numbers have been in the hands of some cybercriminals since 2019 due to a vulnerability in Facebook that...

Research claims Google Pixel phones share 20 times more data than iPhones

If youre an Android phone user, now might be a good time to invest in a good pair of ear plugs. Fans of iPhones arent known for being shy when it comes to telling Android users that Apple products are superior, and things may be about to get worse, thanks to a new research paper pdf. Researchers ...

Malicious Cyber Activity Targeting Critical SAP Applications

SAP systems running outdated or misconfigured software are exposed to increased risks of malicious attacks. SAP applications help organizations manage critical business processes—such as enterprise resource planning, product lifecycle management, customer relationship management, and supply chain...

Wi-Fi Devices as Physical Object Sensors

The new 802.11bf standard will turn Wi-Fi devices into object sensors: In three years or so, the Wi-Fi specification is scheduled to get an upgrade that will turn wireless devices into sensors capable of gathering data about the people and objects bathed in their signals. "When 802.11bf will be...

533 Million Facebook Users' Phone Numbers and Personal Data Leaked Online

In what's likely to be a goldmine for bad actors, personal information associated with approximately 533 million Facebook users worldwide has been leaked on a popular cybercrime forum for free—which was harvested by hackers in 2019 using a Facebook vulnerability. The leaked data includes full...

Google limits which apps can access the list of installed apps on your device

Apps on Android have been able to infer the presence of specific apps, or even collect the full list of installed apps on the device. What's more, an app can also set to be notified when a new app is installed. Apart from all the usual concerns about misuse of such a data grab, the information ca...

Google limits which apps can access the list of installed apps on your device

Apps on Android have been able to infer the presence of specific apps, or even collect the full list of installed apps on the device. What's more, an app can also set to be notified when a new app is installed. Apart from all the usual concerns about misuse of such a data grab, the information ca...

CVE-2021-1781

A privacy issue existed in the handling of Contact cards. This was addressed with improved state management. This issue is fixed in macOS Big Sur 11.2, Security Update 2021-001 Catalina, Security Update 2021-001 Mojave, iOS 14.4 and iPadOS 14.4. A malicious application may be able to leak sensiti...

CVE-2021-1781

A privacy issue existed in the handling of Contact cards. This was addressed with improved state management. This issue is fixed in macOS Big Sur 11.2, Security Update 2021-001 Catalina, Security Update 2021-001 Mojave, iOS 14.4 and iPadOS 14.4. A malicious application may be able to leak sensiti...