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Lax Security is Not Just an Issue with Small Firms
As the recent LinkedIn and eHarmony hacks demonstrate, ignoring security best practices is not just a problem with indie music sites and gaming sites. After six million LinkedIn passwords were hacked...
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March 20, The Register – (International) South Korean TV and banks paralysed in disk-wipe cyber-blitz. Several South Korean TV stations and banks were hit by a cyberattack that caused computers on...
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March 22, Softpedia – (International) Yahoo, LinkedIn, Twitter accounts vulnerable to session fixation attacks. A security researcher identified a vulnerability that could allow cybercriminals to...
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March 27, Threatpost – (International) Attackers shifting to delivering unknown malware via FTP and Web pages. A report by Palo Alto Networks found that malware that goes undetected by antivirus...
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June 20, IDG News Service – (International) LinkedIn outage prompts security concerns. LinkedIn reported that it experienced an outage for several hours June 19 due to an unspecified domain name system...
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June 21, Softpedia – (International) LinkedIn outage caused by DDOS attack on Network Solutions. Cisco researchers found that cybercriminals indirectly caused a LinkedIn outage June 19 when they...
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July 25, The Register – (International) LinkedIn snaps shut OAuth login token snaffling vulnerability. A software developer found and reported a vulnerability in LinkedIn’s customer help Web site that...
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September 27, Softpedia – (International) Exploit kit uses VBScript to deliver malware. Researchers at Sourcefire identified an exploit kit that uses VBScript to write an executable file to the disk...
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October 25, Softpedia – (International) 7 fugitives charged in the U.S. for role in multimillion dollar cyber fraud scheme. The U.S. Department of Justice charged six Romanians and one Albanian for...
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November 4, Krebs on Security – (National) Hackers take limo service firm for a ride. CorporateCarOnline, a limousine and town car service, was found to have been the target of cybercriminals after a...
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December 5, Softpedia – (International) Cybercriminals hijack WP sites with backdoored SEO plugin. Researchers at Sucuri identified a cyberattack that lures owners of WordPress Web sites with a...
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September 16, Softpedia – (International) Malicious Kindle eBooks can give hackers access to your Amazon account. A security researcher identified a security issue in Amazon’s “Manage your Kindle page”...
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January 15, Softpedia – (International) Google AdSense used for malvertising campaign. Researchers with Sucuri identified at least two AdWords campaigns using Google’s AdSense program to modify...
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October 8, Securityweek – (International) New collision attack lowers cost of breaking SHA1. A team of experts from Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica in Europe, Inria in France, and Singapore’s...
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May 19, Softpedia – (International) A quarter of all hacked WordPress sites can be attributed to three plugins. Sucuri conducted an investigation on over 11,485 compromised Web sites and released its...
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May 31, SecurityWeek – (International) 65 million users affected by Tumblr breach. Tumblr officials reported that as a precaution, they have reset all their customers’ passwords after an Australian...
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June 9, Help Net Security – (International) Bug in Chrome’s PDF reader allows arbitrary code execution. A security researcher discovered that the PDFium, a default PDF reader in Google Chrome Web...
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June 12, Softpedia – (International) Email server glitch exposes email addresses for 7,618 Let’s Encrypt users. The Let’s Encrypt project, launched by Mozilla Foundation and the Electronic Frontier...
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