Average Cost of Breach Goes Down, For the First Time Ever

NEW YORK–The global average cost of a data breach last year dropped 11.4 percent from 2015 to $3.6 million. The reduction is attributed mostly to a strong U.S. dollar, with wins also offset by a 1.8 percent increase in the size of breaches in 2016. The numbers come from Peter Allor, senior cyber...

Republican Data Broker Exposes 198M Voter Records

Detailed voter profiles of 198 million voters were left exposed on an Amazon S3 account by Republican Party-affiliated data broker Deep Root Analytics. The discovery was made by Chris Vickery, cyber risk analyst at security firm UpGuard. “This was one of the most data rich datasets I’ve ever...

Database of Over 198 Million U.S. Voters Left Exposed On Unsecured Server

Information on more than 198 Million United States citizens, that's over 60% of the US population, was exposed in what's believed to be the largest ever known exposure of voter-related to date. This blunder was caused by Deep Root Analytics DRA, a data analytics firm employed by the US Republican...

Advanced, Targeted Threats: What do They Mean for Your Bottom Line?

Too often, we are so focused on our day-to-day that we neglect to consider the bigger picture. I have been writing about recursive DNS and threat intelligence, Domain Generation Algorithms DGAs, and DNS-based data exfiltration assuming that the vast majority of readers are familiar with the...

GameStop Online Shoppers Officially Warned of Breach

GameStop customers received breach notification warnings this week, cautioning them that their personal and financial information could have been compromised nine months ago. According to postal letters sent to customers, GameStop said an undisclosed number of online customers had their credit ca...

Collaborative Storytelling at Rapid7

Great ideas can come from anywhere! At Rapid7, we design and develop wonderful products we hope you think so too!. Everything here starts with stories. Storytelling matters: The ability to tell a compelling story is the defining quality of human nature. Storytelling is just as important in busine...

Default credentials

An issue was discovered in Personify360 e-Business 7.5.2 through 7.6.1. When going to the /TabId/275 URI, anyone can add a vendor account or read existing vendor account data including usernames and passwords...

QakBot Returns, Locking Out Active Directory Accounts

QakBot, a worm-like strain of information-stealing malware that’s been around since 2009, has resurfaced again. The malware has been a thorn in the side of administrators as of late. After a recent stretch of inactivity, researchers now link a rash of recent Microsoft Active Directory lockouts to...

Jaff Malware Probe Uncovers Link to Cybercrime Marketplace

An investigation into a new strain of Jaff ransomware uncovered a shared backend infrastructure between the malware and a black market bazaar selling stolen bank and credit card account information. Researchers at Heimdal Security said the cybercrime marketplace they found appeared mature, offeri...

Password manager “OneLogin” hacked; data stolen

By Waqas OneLogin, Inc., the developers of single sign-on and identity management for cloud-based applications has announced that its servers for the US region have been hacked and accessed by a third party. As a result; encrypted information related to its password management service OneLogin ha...

GDPR Readiness – Calculate Your Return on Security Investment (ROSI)

What is the cost of a data breach? Assuming annual revenue of £30M, a single fine could be as much as a whopping £1.2M—the maximum 4%—when the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation GDPR becomes effective in May 2018. Compare that to a database control cost factor of £750K, the cost ...

OneLogin Password Manager Hacked; Users’ Data Can be Decrypted

Do you use OneLogin password manager? If yes, then immediately change all your account passwords right now. OneLogin, the cloud-based password management and identity management software company, has admitted that the company has suffered a data breach. The company announced on Thursday that it h...

shop.midimusic.de XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: http://shop.midimusic.de/index.php?p=search=-1=0=a%3E%27%3E%22%3Et%3Ci%3Ep%3Cimg+src%3Dy+onerror%3Dalert%28%2Fopenbugbounty%2F%29%3E Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| No Latest check for patch:| 28.07.2017 Vulnerability type:| XSS Vulnerability status:| Publicly...

Privacy Issue Fixed in Yopify Ecommerce Notification Plugin

A plugin used by a number of popular ecommerce platforms has an over-sharing problem. Yopify, which provides popup notifications about the last 50 purchases made on a site for Shopify, BigCommerce and other platforms, leaks a significant amount of customers’ personal information to a determined...

US Defense Contractor left Sensitive Files on Amazon Server Without Password

Sensitive files linked to the United States intelligence agency were reportedly left on a public Amazon server by one of the nation's top intelligence contractor without a password, according to a new report. UpGuard cyber risk analyst Chris Vickery discovered a cache of 60,000 documents from a U...

MolinaHealthcare.com Exposed Patient Records

Earlier this month, KrebsOnSecurity featured a story about a basic security flaw in the Web site of medical diagnostics firm True Health Group that let anyone who was logged in to the site view all other patient records. In that story I mentioned True Health was one of three major healthcare...

WannaCry Highlights Major Security Shortcomings Ahead of GDPR D-Day

For all the panic it caused, WannaCry looks finally to have been contained by organisations round the globe. But this isn’t the time to forget about it and move on. There are valuable lessons to be learned about this attack, why it was so successful and what can be done to prevent it happening...

Fraudsters Exploited Lax Security at Equifax’s TALX Payroll Division

Identity thieves who specialize in tax refund fraud had big help this past tax year from Equifax, one of the nation's largest consumer data brokers and credit bureaus. The trouble stems from TALX, an Equifax subsidiary that provides online payroll, HR and tax services. Equifax says crooks were ab...

Zomato Hacked; Hacker Puts Up 17 Million Users' Emails and Passwords On Sale

If you ever ordered food from Zomato, You should be Worried! India's largest online restaurant guide Zomato confirmed today that the company has suffered a data breach and that accounts details of millions of its users have been stolen from its database. In a blog post published today, the compan...

DocuSign Data Breach Led to Targeted Email Malware Campaign

While we all were busy in the WannaCry ransomware menace, two separate data breaches have been reported, one in DocuSign, a major provider of electronic signature technology, and another in BELL, Canada’s largest telecommunications company. In a notice on its website on Tuesday, DocuSign confirme...