Credential Stuffing and Account Takeover -- The Business View

Account takeovers ATOs, in which criminals impersonate legitimate account owners in order to take control of an account, cause tremendous pain for businesses in all industries. This pain may be monetary, such as losses from stolen accounts, but may also include a number of related problems, like...

U.S. Charges 6 Russian Intelligence Officers Over Destructive Cyberattacks

The US government on Monday formally charged six Russian intelligence officers for carrying out destructive malware attacks with an aim to disrupt and destabilize other nations and cause monetary losses. The individuals, who work for Unit 74455 of the Russian Main Intelligence Directorate GRU, ha...

Ransomware attack on hospital causes patient’s death

By Sudais Asif Cybercriminals inflict damages every day on innocent people for monetary benefits especially when it comes to a ransomware attack. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Ransomware attack on hospital causes patients death...

CVE-2020-15168

node-fetch before versions 2.6.1 and 3.0.0-beta.9 did not honor the size option after following a redirect, which means that when a content size was over the limit, a FetchError would never get thrown and the process would end without failure. For most people, this fix will have a little or no...

U.S. Offers Rewards up to $5 Million for Information on North Korean Hackers

The United States agencies today released a joint advisory warning the world about the 'significant cyber threat' posed by North Korean state-sponsored hackers to the global banking and financial institutions. Besides a summary of recent cyberattacks attributed to North Korean hackers, the...

An in-depth look at cyber insurance: We sat down with risk expert, Cisco's Leslie Lamb

Y2K is known for being one of the most widespread times of panic in IT. It was generally thought that on Dec. 31, 1999, computers across the globe would shut down when they would fail to properly process that it would become the year 2000 the next day. It made headlines across the globe, sent...

Get paid up to $40,000 for finding ways to hack Facebook or Instagram accounts

Here we have great news for all bug bounty hunters. Now you can get paid up to $40,000 for finding and responsibly reporting critical vulnerabilities in the websites and mobile applications owned by Facebook that could allow cyber attackers to take over user accounts. In the latest post published...

HackerOne: A user can request a report to be retested even though the program has not been verified by HackerOne

Hey Team I have some observations and issues which i found in my recent testing on h1 platform related to creation of a new private program , So here are my observations listed below - kindly have a look and revert back if you feel like these are valid and worth reporting issues. 1 Can A program...

Yelp: Unauthorized Use of Victim Credit Card

SUMMARY Yelp user's credit cards are at risk of being compromised There's a way by which a malicious attacker can make unauthorized purchases from the victim's credit card. Just by getting the victim to some external website and clicking on it, the victim would have eventually paid for some...

Our Extensive Survey on IoT Cybersecurity Has Remarkable Top Consequence

Trend Micro recently conducted a global survey of IT and security decision makers. When asked about the top consequence to IoT security, many would have expected it to be data loss. However, the top consequence named with 52% of respondents was “Loss of Customer Trust.” IoT has a physical compone...

Ecuador to Withdraw Asylum for Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange

After protecting WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for almost six years, Ecuador is now planning to withdraw its political asylum, probably next week, and eject him from its London embassy—eventually would turn him over to the British authorities. Lenín Moreno, the newly-elected President of...

Alleged Mastermind Behind Carbanak Crime Gang Arrested

The suspected mastermind behind the Carbanak criminal gang, which is notorious for stealing as much as $1 billion from more than 100 financial institutions in a string of attacks, has been apprehended, according to the Spanish National Police. According to the European Union Agency for Law...

General Motors GM Vulnerability Disclosure Program

General Motors’ new vulnerability disclosure program puts it alongside Tesla as the only major automakers with a mechanism for security researchers to report flaws. Unlike Tesla’s program, however, GM’s does not offer a monetary reward. GM launched its program last week via the HackerOne platform...

Dropbox Launches Bounty Program on HackerOne

Dropbox has become the latest high-profile Internet firm to start a bug bounty program, hooking up with HackerOne to provide rewards to security researchers who report vulnerabilities through the program. The new reward system from Dropbox covers a variety of the company’s offerings, including th...

FCC Warns Businesses WiFi Blocking is Illegal

In the wake of a recent enforcement action against Marriott for blocking guests’ WiFi hotspots in their hotels, the FCC is warning other hotel operators and business owners that such blocking is illegal and the commission’s Enforcement Bureau is taking note. Marriott last year paid a fine of...

Bug Bounty to Reward Researchers with Redeemable Points

IntegraXor, a manufacturer of supervisory control and data acquisition SCADA equipment, announced last week that it would implement a bug bounty program offering points redeemable for company services to researchers that disclose security vulnerabilities in their IGX SCADA system. In most bug...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Monetary Award Email Messages on July 9, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 30019 First Published: 2013 July 10 14:59 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a monetary award for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the recipient to open the...

Google: Bug Bounty Program Has Made Users Safer

In the 15 months since Google began offering rewards to researchers who report vulnerabilities in its Web applications, the company has paid out more than $400,000 in bug bounties. That’s a lot of money, even for Google, and the company is counting the program as a huge success. Google’s reward...

International Monetary Fund Reportedly Hacked

The International Monetary Fund is the victim of a sophisticated, targeted attack that has compromised an unknown number of systems within the organization, Bloomberg reports. The Washington, D.C. based organization sent employees a memo informing them that a desktop computer within the IMF had...

FBI cracks International Bot Network !

FBI cracks International Bot Network ! The Department of Justice and FBI declared that it has cracked a network of hackers, who have infected almost 2 million computers with a harmful "bot" program, Coreflood that steals private and monetary data from computers. Identified as a "bot" network- as...