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Cox Discloses Data Breach After Hacker Impersonates Support Agent Cox Communications has disclosed a data breach after a hacker impersonated a support agent to gain access to customers’ personal information. Cox Communications, aka Cox Cable, is a digital cable provider and telecommunication company that provides internet, television, and phone services in the USA. This week, customers
SanDisk SecureAccess Bug Allows Brute Forcing Vault Passwords Western Digital has fixed a security vulnerability that enabled attackers to brute force SanDisk SecureAccess passwords and access the users’ protected files. SanDisk SecureAccess (now rebranded to SanDisk PrivateAccess) allows storing and protecting sensitive files on SanDisk USB flash drives. “SanDisk SecureAccess 3.02 was using a one-way cryptographic
Fujitsu Pins Japanese Govt Data Breach on Stolen ProjectWEB Accounts Fujitsu says the attackers behind the May data breach used a vulnerability in the company’s ProjectWEB information-sharing tool to steal accounts from legitimate users and access proprietary data belonging to multiple Japanese government agencies. The National Cyber Security Center (NISC) of Japan and the country’s
Hundreds of Thousands of MikroTik Devices Still Vulnerable to Botnets Approximately 300,000 MikroTik routers are vulnerable to critical vulnerabilities that malware botnets can exploit for cryptomining and DDoS attacks. MikroTik is a Latvian manufacturer of routers and wireless ISPs who has sold over 2,000,000 devices globally. In August, the Mēris botnet exploited vulnerabilities in MikroTik