September 9, 2016 | By admin |
It has been a helluva week to say the least. But, before I get to the cavalcade of compromised companies let’s roll back the clock to July 2012. Back that summer I was simply gobsmacked by the number of breaches that were cropping up in the news. It was somewhat daunting at the time. Just the sheer volume of records that were leaked was troubling.
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September 8, 2016 | By admin |
As the U.S. Office of Personnel Management purged a hacker, another intruder who secretly infiltrated the system stole 20.5 million records containing personal information of government workers and contractors, many with top security clearances, according to a new GOP Congressional report.
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September 7, 2016 | By Brock Terrano |
Tens of thousands of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances remain vulnerable to a powerful exploit that many security experts believe was created by the U.S. National Security Agency, according to scans conducted by security firm Rapid7 (see Cisco Patches ASA Devices Against EXTRABACON).
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September 6, 2016 | By Brock Terrano |
New report shows risk of not inspecting encrypted packets.
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September 6, 2016 | By Brock Terrano |
The string of cyberattacks striking point-of-sale systems at hotels continues unabated, as a Nashville, Tenn.-based hotel says POS malware compromised its customers’ payment card details for more than three years.
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September 2, 2016 | By admin |
A Chinese certificate authority (CA) appeared to be making a significant security blunder by handing out duplicate SSL certificates for a base domain if someone just has control over its any subdomain.
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September 1, 2016 | By admin |
Election registration databases in two states were attacked and the resulting voter data breach has led to questions of possible election tampering and inadequate state security.
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August 31, 2016 | By Brock Terrano |
Four years after a data breach at cloud storage service Dropbox, details of more than 68 million user accounts have reportedly been leaked.
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August 30, 2016 | By Brock Terrano |
OLYMPIA – The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) has temporarily suspended the sale of fishing and hunting licenses while it works with the state Office of Cyber Security (OCS) to investigate a vulnerability in an outside vendor’s license sale system that was recently exploited in several states, including Washington.
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August 30, 2016 | By Brock Terrano |
August is generally a quiet month for news, but this summer the cyber security industry has been rocked by cyber attack after cyber attack. For example, both the Democratic and Republican parties in the US have been subject to attacks, as have several major organisations.
CBR looks at some of the big breaches and attempted attacks in August 2016.
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