British Airways Fined £183 Million Under GDPR Over 2018 Data Breach

Britain's Information Commissioner's Office ICO today hit British Airways with a record fine of £183 million for failing to protect the personal information of around half a million of its customers during last year's security breach. British Airways, who describes itself as "The World's Favorite...

Data Breach Lessons from the Trenches

In this webcast Threatpost editor Tom Spring examines the data breach epidemic with the help of noted breach hunter and cybersecurity expert Chris Vickery. He shares how companies can identify their own insecure data, remediate against a data breach and offers tips on protecting data against futu...

The Logic of a Classic Advanced Persistent Threat Attack

By David Balaban Story of an Advanced Persistent Threat attack against a large corporation that started with a series of blank emails. Advanced persistent threats APTs are increasingly targeting enterprise networks nowadays. This article highlights a recent attack against a large, well-protected...

Related vulnerabilities have now been patched: the Orvibo smart home devices disclosure of user information-bug warning-the black bar safety net

From Orvibo aspect to understand, this relates to the information disclosure of the security vulnerability has now been fixed, and the user information of the protection level, at the same time they also want and professional information security research team into cooperation with the protection...

AppTrana — Website Security Solution That Actually Works

Data loss and theft continues to rise, and hardly a day goes by without significant data breaches hit the headlines. In January 2019 alone, 1.76 billion records were leaked, and according to IBM's Data Breach study, the average cost of each lost or stolen record has reached about $148. Most of...

MongoDB Leak Exposed Millions of Medical Insurance Records

An online database belonging to insurance marketing website MedicareSupplement.com was found exposing more than 5 million records with personal information. MedicareSupplement.com is a U.S.-based marketing site that allows users to find supplemental medical insurance available in their area...

Leaky Amazon S3 Buckets Expose Data of Netflix, TD Bank

Three publicly-accessible cloud storage buckets from data management company Attunity leaked more than a terabyte of data from its top Fortune 100 customers – including internal business documents, system passwords, sensitive employee information. Israel-based Attunity, which was acquired by Qlik...

Breach at Cloud Solution Provider PCM Inc.

A digital intrusion at PCM Inc., a major U.S.-based cloud solution provider, allowed hackers to access email and file sharing systems for some of the company's clients, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. El Segundo, Calif. based PCM NASDAQ:PCMI is a provider of technology products, services and solutio...

Facebook Faces Lawsuit Over Massive 2018 Data Breach

Facebook lost a key court ruling last week and now must face a lawsuit tied to a data breach of its platform disclosed in 2018, which impacted nearly 30 million of its users. The data breach, first disclosed by Facebook in September 2018, directly impacted the access tokens of 30 million accounts...

Cop Gets $585K After Colleagues Snooped on Her DMV Data

A jury this week finds that Minneapolis police officers abused their license database access. Dozens of other lawsuits have made similar claims...

Collections Firm Behind LabCorp, Quest Breaches Files for Bankruptcy

A medical billing firm responsible for a recent eight-month data breach that exposed the personal information on nearly 20 million Americans has filed for bankruptcy, citing "enormous expenses" from notifying affected consumers and the loss of its four largest customers. The filing, first reporte...

CVE-2018-18472

Western Digital WD My Book Live and WD My Book Live Duo all versions have a root Remote Command Execution bug via shell metacharacters in the /api/1.0/rest/languageconfiguration language parameter. It can be triggered by anyone who knows the IP address of the affected device, as exploited in the...

Every Second Counts When You’re Under Attack — Imperva Provides 3 Second DDoS Mitigation, Stops Account Takeovers & Protects your APIs

Let’s be blunt: cybersecurity is a never-ending arms race between bad actors and IT and security teams. Lately, attackers have surged. Armed with powerful, inexpensive hacking tools and deep knowledge gleaned from successful breaches, attackers are organizing sprawling botnets, probing soft targe...

libcurl Heap Buffer Overflow DoS

The vulnerability of the tftpreceivepacket function in the libcurl library is related to buffer overflow in dynamic memory. Exploiting this vulnerability allows an attacker to gain access to confidential data, compromise its integrity, and cause service failures...

Stack overflow

Recently it was discovered as a part of the research on IoT devices in the most recent firmware for Shekar Endoscope that the desktop application used to connect to the device suffers from a stack overflow if more than 26 characters are passed to it as the Wi-Fi name. This application is installe...

Stack overflow

Recently it was discovered as a part of the research on IoT devices in the most recent firmware for Shekar Endoscope that the desktop application used to connect to the device suffers from a stack overflow if more than 26 characters are passed to it as the Wi-Fi password. This application is...

This Week in Security News: Spam Campaigns and Cryptocurrency Miners

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 advanced targeted attack tools being used to distribute cryptocurrency miners as well as a spam campaign targeting European user...

Data Breach Disclosed by Online Invitation Firm Evite

Online invitation and stationary company Evite has notified customers of a data breach that stemmed from an “inactive data storage file” associated with user accounts. The company over the weekend said that during April 2019, it became aware of a “security incident involving potential unauthorize...

Cybersecurity pros think the enemy is winning

There is a saying in security that the bad guys are always one step ahead of defense. Two new sets of research reveal that the constant cat-and-mouse game is wearing on security professionals, and many feel they are losing in the war against cybercriminals. The first figures are from the...

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...