$5.3M Ransomware Demand: Massachusetts City Says No Thanks

After a ransomware attack slapped a hefty payout demand of $5.3 million on New Bedford, Mass., the city announced that it is instead opting to pick up the pieces and restore what it can from backups itself. If the city had opted to pay, the payout would have been the largest known ransom payout f...

Ad Network Sizmek Probes Account Breach

Online advertising firm Sizmek Inc. NASDAQ: SZMK says it is investigating a security incident in which a hacker was reselling access to a user account with the ability to modify ads and analytics for a number of big-name advertisers. In a recent posting to a Russian-language cybercrime forum, an...

APPLE-SA-2014-10-16-1 OS X Yosemite v10.10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 APPLE-SA-2014-10-16-1 OS X Yosemite v10.10 OS X Yosemite v10.10 is now available and addresses the following: 802.1X Impact: An attacker can obtain WiFi credentials Description: An attacker could have impersonated a WiFi access point, offered to...

Massive Database from Tango messenger server hacked by Syrian Electronic Army

Syrian Electronic Army SEA, hacking group known for cyber attacks against the anti-Syrian websites, has claimed that it has hacked the website of messaging application, Tango tango.me, that includes hundreds of millions of electronic and voice data over the Internet. Hacker group tweeted a messag...

Oracle Application Server contains several vulnerabilities

Overview Several vulnerabilities exist in the Portal and iSQLPlus components of the Oracle Application Server. According the the Oracle Security Alert, exploitation of these vulnerabilities would require the attacker to have network access, but not a valid user account on the vulnerable system...