Security

Hacking the antivirus: BitDefender remote code execution vulnerability

What happens when the very antivirus designed to keep you and your organization safe becomes a threat vector for the…

5 years ago

‘BlueLeaks’: data from over 200 police departments exposed in a massive leak

A group that goes by the name Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets) has published 269 GB worth of data with…

5 years ago

NETGEAR routers vulnerable to “root” code execution, no patch yet

In a recently released vulnerability disclosure from d4rkn3ss from VNPT ISC as well as Adam Nichols of GRIMM, we learn…

5 years ago

Major U.S. companies face network disruptions: some blame DDoS attacks

Yesterday, reports emerged of widespread network outages across major U.S. telecoms and companies like T-Mobile, Instagram, Comcast, and Chase Bank.…

5 years ago

Indian hacker-for-hire firm wanted by FBI targeted ExxonMobil and others

  Last week we reported on CloudEyE which was a legitimate Italian business helping hackers with spreading malware. Now, Citizen…

5 years ago

WordPress Block Editor could let even most basic users exploit XSS vulns!

  WordPress 5.4.2 release announcement stated the update shipped with multiple fixes for Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities. Out of this…

5 years ago

Patient video consultations leaked in medical data breach: Babylon Health UK

  In an a unfortunate incident, video consultants of some patients using the Babylon Health app were leaked to other…

5 years ago

Security firm admits to exposure of 5 billion records, after attempting to censor researchers

  In March 2020, Bob Diachenko reported discovering an unprotected, publicly accessible  Elasticsearch instance which exposed two collections of records:…

5 years ago

Keepnet Labs case study: how NOT to handle a data breach

  We just released news on this one but here's a summary of what happened: In March 2020, Bob Diachenko,…

5 years ago

Italian business operation CloudEye actually aids hackers in spreading GuLoader

Conservative estimates put company’s monthly income at a minimum $500,000. According to a recently released report, researchers at Checkpoint blame…

5 years ago

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