Hacking

Girl Scouts data breach exposed personal information of 2,800 members

A Girl Scouts of America branch in California suffered a security breach, hackers accessed data of 2,800 girls and their…

7 years ago

Windows Defender is the first antivirus solution that can run in a sandbox

Windows Defender, the Windows built-in anti-malware tool, implemented the ability to run in a secure sandbox mode. The mechanisms allow…

7 years ago

Recently discovered DemonBot Botnet targets Hadoop servers

Security experts from Radware have spotted a new botnet dubbed DemonBot that it targeting Hadoop clusters to launch DDoS attacks against third parties.…

7 years ago

Systemd flaw could cause the crash or hijack of vulnerable Linux machines

Systemd is affected by a security vulnerability that can be exploited to crash a vulnerable Linux machine, and in the…

7 years ago

Crooks continue to abuse exposed Docker APIs for Cryptojacking

Cybercriminals continue to abuse unprotected Docker APIs to create new containers used for cryptojacking, Trend Micro warns. Crooks continue to…

7 years ago

Security Affairs newsletter Round 186 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Let me…

7 years ago

How to deliver malware using weaponized Microsoft Office docs embedding YouTube video

Researchers at Cymulate security firm devised a new stealthy technique to deliver malware leveraging videos embedded into weaponized Microsoft Office…

7 years ago

A few dollars to bring down sites with new Bushido-based DDoS-for-hire service

Security researchers at FortiGuard Labs have discovered a new DDoS-for-hire service called “0x-booter" built with leaked code that implements an easy to use…

7 years ago

British Airways: additional 185,000 passengers may have been affected

The data breach suffered by the British Airways airline is worse than initially thought, according to IAG firm that wons the airline…

7 years ago

CVE-2018-14665 privilege escalation flaw affects popular Linux distros

Security researcher discovered a highly critical vulnerability (CVE-2018-14665) in X.Org Server package that affects major Linux distributions. The Indian security researcher Narendra…

7 years ago

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