Reflecting Back on Data Privacy Day 2021: Why This Day Mattered More Than Ever Before In the spring of 2020, SolarWinds Orion, popular system monitoring and management software widely used by the U.S. government and thousands of private companies, was hacked and infiltrated with malware. Later in the year, it was Read more…
Over Half Of Fortune 500 Companies Are Leaving Sensitive Information Open To Reconnaissance via Document Metadata PDF files hosted by many organizations, including more than half of the companies listed on the Fortune 500, are leaking sensitive information. PDF document metadata can contain a variety of information that provides attackers Read more…
Aviation IT Giant SITA Breached In Extensive Supply Chain Attack; Frequent Flier Programs of Major Airlines Compromised SITA, which handles a variety of digital services for about 90% of the world’s airlines, issued a statement indicating that it experienced a “serious” and “highly sophisticated” data breach on February 24. The Read more…
GitHub Fixes Bug Causing Users To Log Into Other Accounts Last night, GitHub automatically logged out many users by invalidating their GitHub.com sessions to protect user accounts against a potentially serious security vulnerability. Earlier this month GitHub had received a report of anomalous behavior from an external party. The anomalous behavior stemmed from a rare race condition vulnerability Read more…
New Sarbloh Ransomware Supports Indian Farmers’ Protest A new ransomware known as Sarbloh encrypts your files while at the same time delivering a message supporting the protests of Indian farmers. Last year the Indian government passed a new set of laws called the ‘Indian agriculture acts of 2020’, also known Read more…
Microsoft 365 Adds ‘External’ Email Tags For Increased Security Microsoft is working on boosting Exchange Online phishing protection capabilities by adding support for external email message tags to its cloud-based email service. Once the feature is available, Exchange Online admins can increase their organizations’ spam and phishing protection by having Read more…
Hackers Hiding Supernova Malware In SolarWinds Orion Linked To China Intrusion activity related to the Supernova malware planted on compromised SolarWinds Orion installations exposed on the public internet points to an espionage threat actor based in China. Security researchers named the hacker group Spiral and correlated findings from two intrusions Read more…
Google Chrome To Block Port 554 To Stop NAT Slipstreaming Attacks Google Chrome will block the browser’s access to TCP port 554 to protect against attacks using the NAT Slipstreaming 2.0 vulnerability. Last year, security researchers disclosed a new version of the NAT Slipstreaming vulnerability that allows malicious scripts to bypass a website visitor’s NAT Read more…
European Banking Authority Discloses Exchange Server Hack The European Banking Authority (EBA) took down all email systems after their Microsoft Exchange Servers were hacked as part of the ongoing attacks targeting organizations worldwide. EBA is part of the European System of Financial Supervision and it oversees the integrity orderly functioning of the EU Read more…
Flagstar Bank Hit By Data Breach Exposing Customer, Employee Data US bank and mortgage lender Flagstar has disclosed a data breach after the Clop ransomware gang hacked their Accellion file transfer server in January. In December, threat actors affiliated with the Clop ransomware gang began exploiting vulnerabilities in Accellion FTA servers used Read more…
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