Chase ‘Glitch’ Exposed Customer Accounts

Multiple Chase.com customers have reported logging in to their bank accounts, only to be presented with another customer's bank account details. Chase has acknowledged the incident, saying it was caused by an internal "glitch" Wednesday evening that did not involve any kind of hacking attempt or...

schweizmobil.ch XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-565356 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| schweizmobil.ch Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

How to build an incident response program: GDPR guidelines

In today’s computing world, it is not a matter of “if” an organization will get compromised, but “when.” That’s why, in addition to the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation GDPR going into effect this May, many organizations need to have a robust incident response program to ensure...

Hacker erase 1 terabyte of data from spyware developers server

By Waqas Another day, another data breach - This time it is Retina-X This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hacker erase 1 terabyte of data from spyware developers server...

119,000 FedEx users​ ​passports, security ID & driving licenses exposed

By Waqas It is just another day with just another privacy invasion This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 119,000 FedEx users​ ​passports, security ID & driving licenses exposed...

The Fifth Question(s) Today’s CEOs Should Ask (& Know the Answers To)

In a previous blog, we discussed Commander’s Intent for CEOs and introduced 10 questions CEOs should be asking their teams. In this blog series, I am taking a deeper dive into each question and breaking them down one at a time. We will discuss why CEOs should care about each question and the type...

Intel Makes Spectre Patch Progress, while Adobe Grapples with Latest Flash Bug

It’s been a busy week in InfoSec land, as Intel released a new Spectre patch, iOS source code was leaked online, and a zero-day Flash bug got exploited in the wild. Also making noise these past few days: A major security hole in the Grammarly web app, WordPress updates tripping over each other, a...

Insurance Customers’ Personal Data Exposed Due to Misconfigured NAS Server

Detailed personal information from thousands of insurance customers in Maryland–as well as login credentials for a massive national insurance claims database–was exposed due to an an open port on a NAS server. The misconfiguration exposed a wealth of information on Maryland Joint Insurance...

February 6, 2018 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Coffee” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! February 6, 2018 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Threat Hunting and...

Discourse: Gaining access to private topics using quoting feature

Description Some topics have limited access to certain groups and users, and while there exists a validation for access on this topic, it can be bypassed by abusing a vulnerability in the "onebox" quoting feature. When pasting a link in a reply, if this link happens to be a link to another topic ...

Countdown to GDPR: For GDPR Compliance, Web App Security Is a Must

With web and mobile apps becoming a preferred vector for data breaches, organizations must include application security in their plans for complying with the EU's General Data Protection Regulation GDPR. First discussed in the 1990s and turned into law in 2016, GDPR goes into effect in May of thi...

GDPR and Breach Detection: How to Ask the Right Questions to Meet the GDPR Breach Notification Rule

It is now less than four months before the General Data Protection Regulation GDPR becomes effective. This new data regulation of the European Union is designed to provide individuals with rights and protections over their personal data collected by business around the world. It aims to unify dat...

Oracle MICROS POS Vulnerability Puts 300,000 Systems at Risk

Point-of-sale systems are rich targets for attackers, given their status as a gateway to credit card information, customer and back-office data and other goodies. A recently patched vulnerability in Oracle’s MICROS POS system software can lead to attackers gaining full access to the systems, say...

Plugging a virtual leak: insecure VR app exposes customer data

I've been giving talks on the possible problems raised by virtual/augmented/mixed reality for a while now, and sure enough, we have what may be one of the first potentially major security issues thrown up by an in-the-wild application. Until a recent fix was applied, users of the pornography app...

CVE-2016-2983

CVE-2016-2983 affects IBM Tealeaf Customer Experience on versions 8.7, 8.8 and 9.0.2, where a remote attacker could, under unusual circumstances, read operational data or TLS session state for active sessions, cause denial of service, or bypass security. The issue is described in IBM and NVD reco...

CVE-2018-6015

The CVE-2018-6015 issue affects WordPress Email Subscribers & Newsletters plugin prior to v3.4.8. An attacker can trigger an information-disclosure by sending an HTTP POST to a URI ending with /?es=export and including option=view_all_subscribers in the body, which allows downloading a CSV contai...

January 24, 2018 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Taco” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! January 24, 2018 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Amazon Web Services Buys...

Nearly Half of the Norway Population Exposed in HealthCare Data Breach

Cybercriminals have stolen a massive trove of Norway's healthcare data in a recent data breach, which likely impacts more than half of the nation's population. An unknown hacker or group of hackers managed to breach the systems of Health South-East Regional Health Authority RHF and reportedly...

Infographic: Cyberattacks by the Numbers

As the calendar shifted from December 2016 to January 2017, the prospect of a large-scale cyberattack loomed. Questions over the possible hacking of the 2016 U.S. presidential election swirled and businesses faced a growing attack vector in ransomware. In 2016, ransomware was estimated to be an...

This Week in Security News: Hackers and Ransoms

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, we saw discussion on the ransomware attacks plaguing institutions in the New Year, and emerging malware targeting Meltdown/Spectre patches...