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Reminder: CISA Publishes Weekly Vulnerability Summaries
Did you know that the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA publishes a weekly Vulnerability Bulletin? This recurring item provides a summary of all new vulnerabilities that have been recorded by the CISA-sponsored National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST National...
IoT Company Wyze Leaks Emails, Device Data of 2.4M
An exposed Elasticsearch database, owned by Internet of Things IoT company Wyze, was discovered leaking connected device information and emails of millions of customers. Wyze makes smart home cameras and connected devices like connected bulbs and plugs, which can be integrated with smart home...
Happy 10th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity.com
Today marks the 10th anniversary of KrebsOnSecurity.com! Over the past decade, the site has featured more than 1,800 stories focusing mainly on cybercrime, computer security and user privacy concerns. And what a decade it has been. Stories here have exposed countless scams, data breaches,...
Facebook Security Debacles: 2019 Year in Review
Facebook Security: 2019 Year in Review Facebook spent the past year both trying to deal with the consequences of the Cambridge Analytica scandal that rocked its public relations in 2018, as well as other issues afflicting the social media platform – from data security challenges to political...
Top 10 Breaches and Leaky Server Screw Ups of 2019
Top 10 Breaches and Leaky Server Screw Ups of 2019 From massive credential spills on the Dark Web and hacked data to card-skimming and rich profiles exposed by way of cloud misconfigurations, 2019 was a notable year for data breaches. Big names like Capital One, Macy’s and Sprint were impacted, a...
Twitter Fixes Bug that Enabled Takeover of Android App Accounts
Twitter for Android users are being urged to update their app to avoid a security bug that allows a malicious user to access private account data and could also allow an attacker to take control of accounts to send tweets and direct messages. The warning comes from Twitter who said there are no...
Online privacy in 2019: a legislative review
For decades, the United States treated data privacy like an aging home, patching individual leaks and drafts only when a new storm hit. The country passed a law protecting healthcare-related information, and not much else. It then passed a law protecting video rental information, and not much els...
Top 10 IoT Disasters of 2019
IoT Disasters 2019 Though more light was shed around insecure Internet of Things IoT devices in 2019 – consequently leading to more calls for regulation– connected devices themselves seemingly stayed just as insecure. From privacy concerns in smart home devices, to botnets evolving to launch...
Top Zero Days, Data Breaches and Security Stories of 2019: News Wrap
From data breaches and the ransomware epidemic to new regulation and an outcry around data privacy, 2019 has been a wild ride for the infosec community. Threatpost breaks down the top news stories, trends and topics for this year. Listen to the full podcast or download direct. For a lightly-edite...
It’s Time for Your SOC to Level Up
Given an ever-increasing cyberattack surface, a global security workforce shortage, as well as an increased frequency and sophistication of attacks, security operations centers SOCs need to leverage better tools – namely artificial intelligence AI – in order to manage threats. An organization’s S...
Names & Phone numbers of 267 million Facebook users exposed
By Waqas Another day, another data breach putting the privacy of hundreds of millions of Facebook users at risk. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Names & Phone numbers of 267 million Facebook users exposed...
267M Facebook Users’ Phone Numbers Exposed Online
A database exposing the names, phone numbers and Facebook user IDs of millions of platform users was left unsecured on the web for nearly two weeks before it was removed. Security researcher Bob Diachenko, who along with Comparitech discovered the unsecured Elasticsearch database, believe it...
Top 5 Essential Features of Effective Cybersecurity for Web Apps
There's hardly any business nowadays that don't use computers and connect to the Internet. Companies maintain an online presence through their official websites, blogs, and social media pages. People use online services to conduct day to day activities like banking. And of course, there are many...
Top 5 Essential Features of Effective Cybersecurity for Web Apps
There's hardly any business nowadays that don't use computers and connect to the Internet. Companies maintain an online presence through their official websites, blogs, and social media pages. People use online services to conduct day to day activities like banking. And of course, there are many...
Ring Plagued by Security Issues, Flood of Hacks
Serious security holes in the Ring smart doorbell have been uncovered, according to a new investigation. For instance, Ring owners aren’t notified of suspicious login alerts when devices are accessed on various IP addresses — and there are seemingly no limitations for incorrect login attempts. Th...
CVE-2019-8775
The issue was addressed by restricting options offered on a locked device. This issue is fixed in iOS 13.1 and iPadOS 13.1. A person with physical access to an iOS device may be able to access contacts from the lock screen...
CVE-2019-8730
The contents of locked notes sometimes appeared in search results. This issue was addressed with improved data cleanup. This issue is fixed in macOS Catalina 10.15. A local user may be able to view a user’s locked notes...
CVE-2019-8620
A user privacy issue was addressed by removing the broadcast MAC address. This issue is fixed in iOS 12.3, tvOS 12.3, watchOS 5.2.1. A device may be passively tracked by its WiFi MAC address...