This Cheap Hacking Device Can Crash Your iPhone With Pop-Ups

Plus: SolarWinds is charged with fraud, New Orleans police face recognition has flaws, and new details about Okta’s October data breach emerge...

Okta's Recent Customer Support Data Breach Impacted 134 Customers

Identity and authentication management provider Okta on Friday disclosed that the recent support case management system breach affected 134 of its 18,400 customers. It further noted that the unauthorized intruder gained access to its systems from September 28 to October 17, 2023, and ultimately...

New NSA Information from (and About) Snowden

Interesting article about the Snowden documents, including comments from former Guardian editor Ewen MacAskill MacAskill, who shared the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service with Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras for their journalistic work on the Snowden files, retired from The Guardian in 2018. He...

CVE-2023-34085

When an AWS DynamoDB table is used for user attribute storage, it is possible to retrieve the attributes of another user using a maliciously crafted request...

Top insights and best practices from the new Microsoft Data Security Index report

A whopping 74 percent of organizations recently surveyed experienced at least one data security incident with their business data exposed in the previous year. That’s just one of our interesting insights from Microsoft’s new Data Security Index: Trends, insights, and strategies to secure data...

The vulnerability of the Connector/J driver for MySQL Connectors of the Oracle Database Management System, which allows attackers to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information.

The vulnerability of the Connector/J driver for MySQL Connectors is related to insufficient validation of input data. Exploiting this vulnerability allows an attacker to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information...

1Password Discloses Security Incident Linked to Okta Breach

By Waqas This incident is a perfect example of the phrase "one thing leading to another. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 1Password Discloses Security Incident Linked to Okta Breach...

1Password reports security incident after breach at Okta

Password manager 1Password says it’s been affected by a breach at Okta, but it reports no user data has been stolen. In a security incident report, 1Password says that a member of its IT team received an unexpected email suggesting they had initiated an Okta report of a list of admins. They hadnt...

Analysis: A Ransomware Attack on a PostgreSQL Database

In 2017, we reported on a database ransomware campaign targeting MySQL and MongoDB. Since then, we’ve observed similar attack tactics on a PostgreSQL database in Imperva Threat Research lab. In general, the attack flow contained: A brute force attack on the database for known users and weak...

Contractor Database Leak Exposes 500K Irish Police Vehicle Seizure Records

By Waqas This marks the fourth data security incident to affect a UK police department in 2023. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Contractor Database Leak Exposes 500K Irish Police Vehicle Seizure Records...

A week in security (October 16 - October 22)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Ragnar Locker ransomware group taken down IT administrators' passwords are awful too The hot topics from Europe's largest trade fair for IT security Clever malvertising attack uses Punycode to look like KeePass's official website 3 crucial security steps people...

A week in security (October 16 – October 22)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Ragnar Locker ransomware group taken down IT administrators passwords are awful too The hot topics from Europes largest trade fair for IT security Clever malvertising attack uses Punycode to look like KeePasss official website 3 crucial security steps people should...

Human Error: Casio ClassPad Data Breach Impacting 148 Countries

By Waqas If you are a Casio ClassPad customer, it is strongly recommended that you change your ClassPad password immediately to protect yourself. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Human Error: Casio ClassPad Data Breach Impacting 148 Countries...

More helpful resources for users of all skill levels to help you Take a Security Action

Welcome to this weeks edition of the Threat Source newsletter. I continue to be saddened by all the conflict in Israel and Gaza thats still ongoing. Ill be back with a "normal" newsletter next week, as unfortunately, there doesnt seem to be a peaceful solution coming any time soon. In the meantim...

Former Uber CISO Appealing His Conviction

Joe Sullivan, Ubers CEO during their 2016 data breach, is appealing his conviction. Prosecutors charged Sullivan, whom Uber hired as CISO after the 2014 breach, of withholding information about the 2016 incident from the FTC even as its investigators were scrutinizing the companys data security a...

D-Link Confirms Data Breach: Employee Falls Victim to Phishing Attack

Taiwanese networking equipment manufacturer D-Link has confirmed a data breach that led to the exposure of what it said is "low-sensitivity and semi-public information." "The data was confirmed not from the cloud but likely originated from an old D-View 6 system, which reached its end of life as...

CVE-2023-22113

CVE-2023-22113 affects Oracle MySQL Server (Server: Security: Encryption) and is applicable to MySQL 8.0.33 and earlier. The vulnerability allows a high-privilege attacker with network access via multiple protocols to potentially read a subset of data, with the CVSS v3.1 base score of 2.7 (low im...

CVE-2023-22100

CVE-2023-22100 affects Oracle VM VirtualBox Core in the 7.0.x line, with vulnerable versions prior to 7.0.12. The flaw allows a local, high-privilege attacker with logon to the host system to compromise VirtualBox, potentially leading to unauthorized data access and a complete denial of service (...

The vulnerability of the VBASE Automation Base software platform, related to incorrect restrictions on XML references to external objects, allows attackers to trigger service failures or gain unauthorized access to confidential data.

The vulnerability of the VBASE Automation Base software platform relates to incorrect restrictions on XML references pointing to external objects. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow attackers to cause service failures or gain unauthorized access to confidential data...

NLB mKlik Makedonija 3.3.12 SQL Injection

NLB mKlik Makedonija 3.3.12 SQL Injection Vendor: NLB Banka AD Skopje Product web page: https://www.nlb.mk Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=hr.asseco.android.jimba.tutunskamk.production Affected version: 3.3.12 Summary: NLB mKlik е мобилна апликација наменета за физички...