Securing Databases with Qualys Policy Compliance

Data is the most valuable asset that an organization holds, and the most common target for malicious attackers. According to Forbes, in the first six months of 2019, data breach incidents exposed an astounding 4.1 billion records worldwide. Hackers successfully attacked government agencies as wel...

Design/Logic Flaw

Cybozu Office 10.0.0 to 10.8.3 allows remote authenticated attackers to bypass access restriction which may result in obtaining data without access privileges via the application 'Address'...

kelbycarr.com Cross Site Scripting vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-1049989 Security Researcher g0bl1nsec Helped patch 3741 vulnerabilities Received 4 Coordinated Disclosure badges Received 3 recommendations , a holder of 4 badges for responsible and coordinated disclosure, found a security vulnerability affecting kelbycarr.com website and...

CVE-2012-5639

LibreOffice and OpenOffice automatically open embedded content...

The Zero Trust Approach to Data Security – 2020 Trend #2

As 2019 comes to an end, our security experts are looking ahead to the new year to predict cybersecurity trends that will shape the landscape in 2020. Imperva CTO Kunal Anand blogged about his “Top 5 Cybersecurity Trends to Prepare for in 2020,” last week. This week, we’re digging deeper into his...

14 Ways to Evade Botnet Malware Attacks On Your Computers

Cybercriminals are busy innovators, adapting their weapons and attack strategies, and ruthlessly roaming the web in search of their next big score. Every manner of sensitive information, such as confidential employee records, customers' financial data, protected medical documents, and government...

CVE-2019-16779

In CVE-2019-16779, RubyGem excon before 0.71.0 contains a race condition on persistent connections where an interrupted connection can leave data on the socket, causing subsequent requests to return content from the previous response. This affects ruby-excon packages across multiple distributions...

How safe is business data stored in third-party supplier websites?

By Uzair Amir For any modern business, the data that they hold is among their most valuable assets. Whether it is data about customers or about the business itself... This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: How safe is business data stored in third-party supplier websites?...

Top 5 Cybersecurity Trends to Prepare for in 2020

I don’t need a crystal ball to predict that in 2020 cybersecurity attacks will accelerate and the tactics will evolve. We’ll continue to be hounded by greater volumes of the attacks that have threatened us for years and, as businesses adopt new innovations, new vulnerabilities to threats will...

Birth Certificate Data Laid Bare on the Web in Multiple States

A third-party government supplier has exposed hundreds of thousands of applications containing birth-certificate data. The trove of information is owned by a company that provides an online platform to state governments – including California, New York and Texas – that allows residents to request...

CVE-2019-11255

Technical details for CVE-2019-11255 are not publicly available in the provided documents. Monitor for updates in the official sources to obtain affected components, root cause, impact, and remediation.

Flawed Implementation of RCS Standard putting data of millions at risk

By Waqas The Rich Communication Services RCS messaging standard is used by almost every phone carrier around the globe... This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Flawed Implementation of RCS Standard putting data of millions at risk...

DHS Plans to Expand Facial Recognition Border Checks

The Department of Homeland Security plans to extend facial recognition checks to all travelers entering and leaving the U.S. – including previously-exempt U.S. citizens. The proposed ruling, outlined in a recent filing that was first reported this week by TechCrunch, signifies a rapid expansion o...

Mitigating Modern Insider Threats in FIs

More and more financial institutions FI are migrating to the cloud—increasing efficiencies and access to services. With this move, however, comes a new degree of risk. Without the right levels of protection and visibility, you leave yourself open not only to attacks by external actors but interna...

naukriguru.com Cross Site Scripting vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-1029064 Security Researcher g0bl1nsec Helped patch 3766 vulnerabilities Received 4 Coordinated Disclosure badges Received 3 recommendations , a holder of 4 badges for responsible and coordinated disclosure, found a security vulnerability affecting naukriguru.com website an...

SDKs Misused to Scrape Twitter, Facebook Account Info

Twitter and Facebook are warning of software development kits SDKs that could be embedded within a mobile application and used to harvest personal user information. The SDKs, which the tech giants said are maintained by oneAudience and MobiBurn, could be used by mobile app developers to craft...

Would ‘Medicare for All’ help secure health data?

DISCLAIMER: This post is not partisan, but rather focuses on risk assessment based on history and what threats we are facing in the future. We do not endorse any healthcare plan style in any way, outside of examining its data security risk. For many folks, the term ‘Healthcare for All’ brings up ...

Deployment Isn’t the Final Step – Monitoring Machine Learning Models in Production

Unless you’ve been living in a cave for the last decade, you’ve probably heard of the concept of a machine learning system at least once in your life. Whether it’s auto-translation, auto-completion, face or voice recognition, recommendation systems or autonomous driving, AI-based systems can be...

National Tax Security Awareness Week is December 2–6

The Internal Revenue Service IRS has released an article announcing that National Tax Security Awareness Week will be held December 2–6. The annual recognition event will feature a series of resources and tips to help taxpayers and tax professionals protect their data and identities against...

Americans Concerned and Confused Over Privacy, Survey Reveals

Call it a case of Facebook privacy breach fatigue. When asked, Americans say companies do a worse job than the government when it comes to protecting data collected on their behalf. They also complain potential risks they face because of data collection by companies outweigh the benefits. The...