A hacker released almost 500,000 Fortinet VPN login names and passwords that were allegedly scraped from exploitable devices last summer. While many appliances with the exploited Fortinet vulnerability have since been patched, many VPN credentials seem still to be valid. With these VPN credentials access to a network can be gained to perform data exfiltration, install […]
The US Department of Justice has indicted a man for using a malware botnet to brute force 2.000 computer logon credentials per week and then selling them on a criminal dark web remote access marketplace.
Microsoft has issued a warning for a zerodaylek in Internet Explorer, where it operates through Office documents to any other. The vulnerability is located in MSHTML, which is the Microsoft-developed browser engine in Internet Explorer. MSHTML in Office applications, is used to display web content in a document.As now observed the attack send the attackers […]
Apple has abandoned its once-famous commitment to security and privacy. The next version of iOS will contain software that scans users’ photos and messages. Under pressure from U.S. law enforcement, Apple has put a backdoor into their encryption system.
According to the CEO the bad actor leveraged their knowledge of technical systems, along with specialized tools and capabilities, to gain access to our testing environments and then used brute force attacks and other methods to make their way into other IT servers that included customer data.”Compromised information includes customer names, addresses, Social Security numbers […]
Using only a password to access or manage systems remotely is unwise and should be seen as a “bad practice,” according to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) of the US Department of Homeland Security. In June, the CISA decided to collect bad practices that are extremely risky and actually increase cyber risks for […]
In the USA 10 major data brokers have data on individuals’ demographic characteristics (from race to gender to income level) and political preferences and beliefs (including support for the NAACP, ACLU, Planned Parenthood, and the National LGBTQ Task Force), and on current US government and military personnel. Several of these firms also market: Americans’ geo-locations. […]
In a large-scale phishing campaign designed to steal credentials, criminals are using open redirects and captchas to deceive victims, Microsoft reports. The attack starts with a phishing email that masquerades as a Zoom invitation, Microsoft 365 notification, or a message that the password has expired. Users are then prompted to open a link in the […]
Power Apps, a low-code development platform for creating business-intelligence tools, were susceptible to a default configuration that made their data sets findable by search engines or anyone with knowledge of the web address. 38 million records pf 47 organizations— containing names, dates of birth, addresses and, in some cases, Social Security numbers were exposed.
Amazon has fired a driver by an automatically generated email by a Bot. Worldwide 4 million drivers have downloaded the app, including 2.9 million in the U.S., according to App Annie which services the AI decision making. Do you think the AI usage in Human Resources here corresponds righteous with the ‘intended purpose’ and ‘reasonably foreseeable misuse’ […]