SoundCloud Tackles DoS, Account Takeover Issues

Online music platform SoundCloud, which can be thought of as an audio-based YouTube for music creators, has addressed several security bugs in its APIs that could lead to denial-of-service DoS or account takeover via credential-stuffing. SoundCloud recently sold a $75 million stake to satellite...

Online Holiday Shopping followed the Hot Topics of 2019: Mobile & Security

Here's what I learned this past holiday season: I'm not alone shopping on my mobile device on Christmas Day and Boxing Day. And while Hollywood actors may take the holidays off, threat actors certainly do not. Let's have a look at some of the numbers. Akamai has a lot of data, but let's look at...

6 ways hackers are targeting retail businesses

Retail hacking is no new phenomenon, although it has increased in frequency over the last few years. In fact, retailers experienced more breaches than any other industry in 2019, and they've lost over $30 billion to cybersecurity attacks. Both brick-and-mortar and online businesses experience...

This Week in Security News: Trend Micro Unveils New Cloud Security Platform, plus Thousands of Disney+ Accounts are Compromised

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, learn about Trend’s new Cloud One platform that provides workload, container, file object storage, serverless and application, and network...

The Likely Reason Disney\+ Accounts Are Getting 'Hacked'

Credential stuffing, where names and passwords leaked in previous breaches are reused, strikes again...

Help, my accounts have been hacked! What should I do?

I run staff security awareness sessions for a huge variety of organisations. Regardless of where I am the most common question I get asked is “How do I recover from being hacked at home?”. For businesses, we have some simple advice, but what about everybody else? A client contacted me. One of the...

Dunkin’ Donuts Gets Hit with Lawsuit Over 2015 Attack

Dunkin’ Donuts is being sued for violating New York state data breach notification laws. The lawsuit alleges that Dunkin’ parent company, Dunkin’ Brands, failed to disclose a breach in 2015 that affected nearly 20,000 customers who were part of the company’s DD Perks loyalty program. New York...

Malicious Ad Blockers for Chrome Caught in Ad Fraud Scheme

Google has removed two malicious ad blockers from its Chrome Web Store after a researcher discovered they were carrying out ad fraud and deceived Chrome users by using names of legitimate and popular blockers. Researcher Andrey Meshkov from rival ad blocker maker AdGuard discovered that the...

Two Widely Used Ad Blocker Extensions for Chrome Caught in Ad Fraud Scheme

Two widely used Adblocker Google Chrome extensions, posing as the original — AdBlock and uBlock Origin — extensions on Chrome Web Store, have been caught stuffing cookies in the web browser of millions of users to generate affiliate income from referral schemes fraudulently. There's no doubt web...

Two Widely Used Ad Blocker Extensions for Chrome Caught in Ad Fraud Scheme

Two widely used Adblocker Google Chrome extensions, posing as the original — AdBlock and uBlock Origin — extensions on Chrome Web Store, have been caught stuffing cookies in the web browser of millions of users to generate affiliate income from referral schemes fraudulently. There's no doubt web...

FreeBSD : Gitlab -- Multiple Vulnerabilities (b68cc195-cae7-11e9-86e9-001b217b3468)

Gitlab reports : Kubernetes Integration Server-Side Request Forgery Server-Side Request Forgery in Jira Integration Improved Protection Against Credential Stuffing Attacks Markdown Clientside Resource Exhaustion Pipeline Status Disclosure Group Runner Authorization Issue CI Metrics Disclosure Use...

TGI Fridays Delivers Customer Indigestion Over Data Exposure

Customers of TGI Fridays Australia were “strongly recommended” to change their MyFridays membership rewards program passwords. According to an email sent to customers this week, the company had inadvertently left sensitive loyalty program data exposed on the internet. News of the leaky server...

Gitlab -- Multiple Vulnerabilities

Gitlab reports: Kubernetes Integration Server-Side Request Forgery Server-Side Request Forgery in Jira Integration Improved Protection Against Credential Stuffing Attacks Markdown Clientside Resource Exhaustion Pipeline Status Disclosure Group Runner Authorization Issue CI Metrics Disclosure User...

Breached Passwords Still in Use By Hundreds of Thousands

Hundreds of thousands of web visitors continue utilizing passwords that have previously been compromised. Worse, they are reusing the breached credentials for some of their most sensitive financial, government and email accounts. That’s according to a new Google study released this week, which wa...

State Farm Falls Victim to Credential-Stuffing Attack

State Farm Insurance is notifying customers that accounts have been compromised by hackers in a credential-stuffing attack. Credential-stuffing is accomplished by hackers who take advantage of users who often reuse the same passwords across multiple online accounts. The cyberattackers use stolen...

4 Critical Elements Your Next Security Solution Must Have

Security is essential to the success of any digital business. But there's one thing you can always count on: security-related incursions are inevitable. And the results can be devastating. Security breaches erode trust and damage reputation. As a CIO, CISO, or other security or IT leader, you kno...

Troy Hunt Looks to Sell Have I Been Pwned

Citing overwhelming demands on his time, Troy Hunt is looking for a buyer for his site, Have I Been Pwned HIBP. HIBP offers a free service for consumers wanting to know if their user names and passwords have been compromised in a data breach; it also offers commercial services that include alerts...

OracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2019-0024)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - hugetlbfs: don't retry when pool page allocations start to fail Mike Kravetz Orabug: 29324267 - x86/speculation: RSB stuffing with retpoline on Skylake+ cpus William Roche Orabug: 29660924 -...

Billions of Malicious Bots Attacks Take to Cipher-Stunting to Hide

When it comes to cyberattacks, adversaries are focusing not just on advanced malware development, but also on increasing the sophistication of their evasion techniques. This is playing out lately in the form of ballooning instances of “cipher stunting” – a TLS tampering technique that helps...

A week in security (April 22 – 28)

Last week on Labs, we looked at security threats to headphones, privacy options in the world of law, and wandered through the FBI’s 2018 IC3 online crime report. We also explored another MageCart attack, and we released our 2019 Q1 Crime Tactics and Techniques report. Other cybersecurity news...