This Week in Security News: Phishing Attacks and Ransomware

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about schemes used in phishing and other email-based attacks. Also, learn how ransomware continues to make a significant impact in the...

The Weather Channel goes offline after ransomware attack

By Uzair Amir The ransomware took The Weather Channel's live transmission offline for almost an hour. Another day, another ransomware attack; this time The Weather Channel suffered a powerful ransomware attack forcing its live TV telecast to go offline for 90 minutes. See: WannaCry hero MalwareTe...

CVE-2014-6699: Undefined Security Weakness

The Weather Channel aka com.weather.Weather application 5.2.0 for Android does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate...