How “123456” became the key to almost 9 million personal records

An attacker reportedly used a leaked password to abuse a company’s legitimate access to Denmark’s population register CPR. The weak password is remarkable, but the failure to spot millions of unusual searches made the breach worse. The CPR administration states it identified a serious security...

RHEL 8 : osinfo-db and libosinfo (RHSA-2019:3387)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2019:3387 advisory. The osinfo-db package contains a database that provides information about operating systems and hypervisor platforms to facilitate the automated...

Hacker Hijacks CoinHive's DNS to Mine Cryptocurrency Using Thousands of Websites

When yesterday I was reporting about the sudden outbreak of another global ransomware attack 'Bad Rabbit,' I thought what could be worse than this? Then late last night I got my answer with a notification that Coinhive has been hacked — a popular browser-based service that offers website owners t...