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6 ways hackers are targeting retail businesses
Retail hacking is no new phenomenon, although it has increased in frequency over the last few years. In fact, retailers experienced more breaches than any other industry in 2019, and they've lost over $30 billion to cybersecurity attacks. Both brick-and-mortar and online businesses experience...
This Week in Security News: Trend Micro Unveils New Cloud Security Platform, plus Thousands of Disney+ Accounts are Compromised
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 Trend’s new Cloud One platform that provides workload, container, file object storage, serverless and application, and network...
The Likely Reason Disney\+ Accounts Are Getting 'Hacked'
Credential stuffing, where names and passwords leaked in previous breaches are reused, strikes again...
Help, my accounts have been hacked! What should I do?
I run staff security awareness sessions for a huge variety of organisations. Regardless of where I am the most common question I get asked is “How do I recover from being hacked at home?”. For businesses, we have some simple advice, but what about everybody else? A client contacted me. One of the...
Dunkin’ Donuts Gets Hit with Lawsuit Over 2015 Attack
Dunkin’ Donuts is being sued for violating New York state data breach notification laws. The lawsuit alleges that Dunkin’ parent company, Dunkin’ Brands, failed to disclose a breach in 2015 that affected nearly 20,000 customers who were part of the company’s DD Perks loyalty program. New York...
FreeBSD : Gitlab -- Multiple Vulnerabilities (b68cc195-cae7-11e9-86e9-001b217b3468)
Gitlab reports : Kubernetes Integration Server-Side Request Forgery Server-Side Request Forgery in Jira Integration Improved Protection Against Credential Stuffing Attacks Markdown Clientside Resource Exhaustion Pipeline Status Disclosure Group Runner Authorization Issue CI Metrics Disclosure Use...
TGI Fridays Delivers Customer Indigestion Over Data Exposure
Customers of TGI Fridays Australia were “strongly recommended” to change their MyFridays membership rewards program passwords. According to an email sent to customers this week, the company had inadvertently left sensitive loyalty program data exposed on the internet. News of the leaky server...
Gitlab -- Multiple Vulnerabilities
Gitlab reports: Kubernetes Integration Server-Side Request Forgery Server-Side Request Forgery in Jira Integration Improved Protection Against Credential Stuffing Attacks Markdown Clientside Resource Exhaustion Pipeline Status Disclosure Group Runner Authorization Issue CI Metrics Disclosure User...
Breached Passwords Still in Use By Hundreds of Thousands
Hundreds of thousands of web visitors continue utilizing passwords that have previously been compromised. Worse, they are reusing the breached credentials for some of their most sensitive financial, government and email accounts. That’s according to a new Google study released this week, which wa...
State Farm Falls Victim to Credential-Stuffing Attack
State Farm Insurance is notifying customers that accounts have been compromised by hackers in a credential-stuffing attack. Credential-stuffing is accomplished by hackers who take advantage of users who often reuse the same passwords across multiple online accounts. The cyberattackers use stolen...
4 Critical Elements Your Next Security Solution Must Have
Security is essential to the success of any digital business. But there's one thing you can always count on: security-related incursions are inevitable. And the results can be devastating. Security breaches erode trust and damage reputation. As a CIO, CISO, or other security or IT leader, you kno...
Troy Hunt Looks to Sell Have I Been Pwned
Citing overwhelming demands on his time, Troy Hunt is looking for a buyer for his site, Have I Been Pwned HIBP. HIBP offers a free service for consumers wanting to know if their user names and passwords have been compromised in a data breach; it also offers commercial services that include alerts...
Billions of Malicious Bots Attacks Take to Cipher-Stunting to Hide
When it comes to cyberattacks, adversaries are focusing not just on advanced malware development, but also on increasing the sophistication of their evasion techniques. This is playing out lately in the form of ballooning instances of “cipher stunting” – a TLS tampering technique that helps...
A week in security (April 22 – 28)
Last week on Labs, we looked at security threats to headphones, privacy options in the world of law, and wandered through the FBI’s 2018 IC3 online crime report. We also explored another MageCart attack, and we released our 2019 Q1 Crime Tactics and Techniques report. Other cybersecurity news...
ThreatList: Bad Bots Account for a Fifth of All Web Traffic, FinServ Hit the Worst
About a fifth of all web traffic 20.4 percent comes from bad bots, which continue to attack daily in automated offensives on websites, mobile apps and APIs. That’s worse for some verticals, like the banking and finance sector, which was hit the hardest last year. That’s according to the Distil...
Are hackers gonna hack anymore? Not if we keep reusing passwords
Enterprises have a password problem, and it’s one that is making the work of hackers a lot easier. From credential stuffing to brute force and password spraying attacks, modern hackers don’t have to do much hacking in order to compromise internal corporate networks. Instead, they log in using wea...
Fourth Major Credential Spill in a Month Hits DreamMarket
The hacker behind more than 840 million account records appearing for sale on the Dark Web in February in dumps collectively known as Collections 1-3 is back with 26.42 more records from six companies. The adversary, who goes by the handle Gnosticplayers, is asking just 1.2431 in Bitcoin roughly...
Purveyor of Cracked Netflix, Hulu, Spotify Accounts Arrested
A Sydney man has been arrested after allegedly selling hundreds of thousands of compromised account details for subscription streaming services, including for Netflix, Hulu and music streaming service Spotify – raking in about $212,000 $300,000 AUD in profit in the process. The Australian Federal...
Bot Manager: Staying Ahead of the Bot Landscape
Akamai launched Bot Manager three years ago. Since then, the bot landscape has continued to evolve and we've introduced a number of improvements to our bot detections to stay ahead of it. These included browser fingerprinting and behavioral anomaly detection, as well constantly refining our core...