CISA Adds TeleMessage Vulnerability to KEV List Following Breach

CISA adds TeleMessage flaw to KEV list, urges agencies to act within 3 weeks after a breach exposed…...

Internet Archive suffers data breach and DDoS

A non-profit that benefits millions of people has fallen victim to a data breach and a DDoS attack. Internet Archive, most known for its Wayback Machine, is a digital library that allows users to look at website snapshots from the past. It is often used for academic research and data analysis...

National Public Data leaked passwords online

Earlier this month, a huge trove of data from scraping service National Public Data was posted online. The dump made international headlines because it included data on hundreds of millions of people, and included Social Security Numbers. As if that wasnt bad enough, KrebsOnSecurity is now...

Security company ADT announces security breach of customer data

Electronic surveillance equipment provider ADT filed a form 8-K with the Security and Exchange Commision SEC to report “a cybersecurity incident during which unauthorized actors illegally accessed certain databases containing ADT customer order information.” An 8-K is a report of unscheduled...

TotalCloud Insights: Protect Your AWS Environment by Managing Access Keys Securely

Introduction With the average cost of a data breach coming in at $4.45M in 2023, safeguarding sensitive information and maintaining the security of cloud environments is more critical than ever. Instances of compromised access keys, not exclusive to AWS Amazon Web Services but prevalent across...

5 key MDR differentiators to look for to build stronger security resilience

Organizations looking to address the skills gap and bring greater efficiency as their business grows and their attack surface sprawls are turning to MDR providers at an accelerated pace. We’ve seen predictions from top analyst firms signaling the rapid rate of adoption of an MDR provider by 2025...

Identity theft is number one threat for consumers, says report

The German Federal Office for Information Security BSI has published a report on The State of IT Security in Germany in 2023, and the number one threat for consumers is… identity theft. The thing is, you can protect your devices and your online privacy as much as possible, but what happens when...

artcontemporainbretagne.org Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-2909163

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

In the Wake of the SolarWinds Hack, Here's How Businesses Should Respond

Throughout 2020, businesses, in general, have had their hands full with IT challenges. They had to rush to accommodate a sudden shift to remote work. Then they had to navigate a rapid adoption of automation technologies. And as the year came to a close, more businesses began trying to assemble th...

Think you’ve had a breach? Top 5 things to do

Realising that you may have had a data breach can be the start of a stressful and confusing time. Ideally, you would reach for your carefully crafted and practised incident management plan to guide you through the process. In reality though these plans fall into two camps: They don’t exist yet Th...

There She Breaches! Watch Out For Your Identity Data!

Data breaches keep on coming. Here’s what you can do to stay ahead of the hackers Money makes the world go around. It’s the glue that holds our society together and the engine that drives our economy. But it’s also coveted by a growing global population of highly resourceful and determined...

Countdown to Black Hat: Top 10 Sessions to Attend — #7

Black Hat USA 2019 is just weeks away, and with scores of training courses and research briefings to choose from, planning your schedule can be a challenge. To help you, we’re posting a weekly recommendation on our blog, and explaining why we think Qualys customers could find it useful and...

Collection 1 data breach: what you need to know

Yesterday, news broke that the largest data dump in history had been discovered, with more than 770 million people's Personally Identifiable Information PII decrypted, catalogued, and up for grabs on the Internet. The files, which are being dubbed Collection 1, were originally found on cloud...

What the Marriott Breach Says About Security

We don't yet know the root causes that forced Marriott this week to disclose a four-year-long breach involving the personal and financial information of 500 million guests of its Starwood hotel properties. But anytime we see such a colossal intrusion go undetected for so long, the ultimate cause ...

Under Armour Reports Massive Breach of 150 Million MyFitnessPal Accounts

UPDATE Fitness apparel firm Under Armour said 150 million users of its MyFitnessPal app are victims in a breach exposing user names, email addresses and hashed passwords. The company said personal identifiable information such as credit card numbers and social security numbers were not part of th...

Beers with Talos EP14: Ranking Threats and Avoiding Bush League Breach Response

Beers with Talos BWT Podcast Episode 14 is now available. Download this episode and subscribe to Beers with Talos:If iTunes and Google Play aren't your thing: a href="http://www.talosin...

Equifax Says 145.5M Affected by Breach, Ex-CEO Testifies

Equifax, the credit agency behind this summer’s breach of 143 million Americans, said this week the number of victims implicated in the breach has increased. Paulino do Rego Barros, Jr., the company’s interim CEO, announced Monday that 2.5 million additional Americans were also impacted, bringing...

Equifax Breach Response Turns Dumpster Fire

I cannot recall a previous data breach in which the breached company's public outreach and response has been so haphazard and ill-conceived as the one coming right now from big-three credit bureau Equifax, which rather clumsily announced Thursday that an intrusion jeopardized Social security...

Data Breaches Show Difficulty of Defenders' Task

When attackers broke into the network of the University of Maryland last month, the university’s wasn’t sure how to react. The organization had never had a major security incident before, and this one qualified as major: 310,000 Social Security numbers and other information was gone. And then thr...

3.6 Million South Carolina Taxpayers at Risk of ID Theft

State officials are warning South Carolina taxpayers that 3.6 million Social Security numbers and other personal data was exposed in a recent attack on Department of Revenue servers. Anyone who filed a state return since 1998 are asked to call 866 578-5422 or visit protectmyid.com/scdor. The stat...