Cybersecurity News
New Brazilian Banking Trojan Targets Mobile Users in Multiple Countries
Ghimob is a full-fledged spy in your pocket, Kaspersky says.09 November 2020
FTC Announces Consent Agreement With Zoom
The agreement covers Zoom's misleading statements on security for its audio and video calling.09 November 2020
Hotels.com & Expedia Provider Exposes Millions of Guests' Data
Hotel reservation platform Prestige Software compromised personal data belonging to millions of travelers through a misconfigured AWS S3 bucket.09 November 2020
Bug hunter wins 'Researcher of the Month' award for DOD account takeover bug
Severe bug would have allowed hackers to hijack DOD accounts just by modifying a few parameters in web requests sent to DOD servers.09 November 2020
Trump Site Alleging AZ Election Fraud Exposes Voter Data
Slapdash setup of Trump website collecting reports of Maricopa County in-person vote irregularities exposed 163,000 voter data records to fraud, via SQL injection.
09 November 2020
Data Privacy Gets Solid Upgrade With Early Adopters
The United Kingdom and the regional government of Flanders kick off four pilots of the Solid data-privacy technology from World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, which gives users more control of their data.09 November 2020
Cyberattack on UVM Health Network Impedes Chemotherapy Appointments
The cyberattack has halted chemotherapy, mammogram and screening appointments, and led to 300 staff being furloughed or reassigned.
09 November 2020
Zoom settles FTC charges for misleading users about security features
The FTC accused Zoom of misrepresenting how its call encryption features worked.09 November 2020
Ultimate Member Plugin for WordPress Allows Site Takeover
Three critical security bugs allow for easy privilege escalation to an administrator role.
09 November 2020
Insecure APIs a Growing Risk for Organizations
Security models for application programming interfaces haven't kept pace with requirements of a non-perimeter world, Forrester says.09 November 2020
Microsoft Exchange Attack Exposes New xHunt Backdoors
An attack on the Microsoft Exchange server of an organization in Kuwait revealed two never-before-seen Powershell backdoors.
09 November 2020
Millions of Hotel Guests Worldwide Caught Up in Mass Data Leak
A cloud misconfiguration affecting users of a popular reservation platform threatens travelers with identity theft, scams, credit-card fraud and vacation-stealing.
09 November 2020
Preventing and Mitigating DDoS Attacks: It's Elementary
Following a spate of cyberattacks nationwide, school IT teams need to act now to ensure their security solution makes the grade.09 November 2020
A Message from PCI SSC Executive Director Lance Johnson: Vote for the 2021-2022 Board of Advisors
Every two years we ask PCI SSC Participating Organizations to nominate candidates and then vote to elect those whom you believe will best represent the interests of your organization, industry sector or region. It is that time again.
09 November 2020
7 Online Shopping Tips for the Holidays
The holidays are right around the corner, and that means plenty of online shopping. These tips will help keep you safe.
09 November 2020
Compal, the second-largest laptop manufacturer in the world, hit by ransomware
Compal factories build laptops for Apple, Acer, Lenovo, Dell, Toshiba, HP, and Fujitsu.09 November 2020
Ransomware hits e-commerce platform X-Cart
Company says it has now recovered from the attack and all customer sites are now back up.09 November 2020
Body Found in Canada Identified as Neo-Nazi Spam King
The body of a man found shot inside a burned out vehicle in Canada three years ago has been identified as that of Davis Wolfgang Hawke, a prolific spammer and neo-Nazi who led a failed anti-government march on Washington, D.C. in 1999, according to news reports.08 November 2020
Windows 10, iOS, Chrome, and many others fall at China's top hacking contest
Winning hacker team pockets $744,500 at the Tianfu Cup, China's top hacking contest.08 November 2020
Yahoo Mail discontinues automatic email forwarding for free users
Automatic email forwarding to be discontinued on January 1, 2021. Existing users told to get a Pro account.08 November 2020
