Cisco released security patches for some of its products that fix critical and high severity flaw that could be remotely exploited by hackers. Cisco has released security patches for a number of high-severity vulnerabilities in the CISCO Management and other security products. One of the flaws, a critical vulnerability in the Cisco Prime Collaboration Provisioning (CVE-2016-1416), […]
According to the 2015 version of the ‘Transportation Systems Sector-Specific Plan’ the transportation industry is increasingly exposed to cyber threats. The transportation industry is considered part of the critical infrastructure of a country, and according to the IBM’s X-Force security team is it a privileged target for hackers. The report, Security Trends in the Transportation […]
The Thomson Reuters terrorist database World-Check used by banks and intelligence agencies worldwide was leaked online, 2.2 million records exposed. There is a terrorist database used by banks and intelligence agencies worldwide, it is called World-Check and unfortunately, it was leaked online. The leaked database is dated back 2014 and contains some 2.2 million records. […]
On Monday the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas disclosed for the second time a data breach that compromised customers’ payment card data. It has happened again, earlier this week the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas disclosed a data breach, it is the second time the casino suffered a cyber attack. […]
Russian cyber spies belonging to the Pawn Storm APT group have targeted a significant number of Google accounts belonging to individuals worldwide. The Pawn Storm APT group is once again in the headlines, this time the hackers targeted a significant number of Google accounts belonging to individuals in Russia, former Soviet Union countries, the United States, Europe. […]
Symantec has fixed dozens of critical vulnerabilities affecting its solutions that can be exploited by remote attackers for arbitrary code execution. The popular Google Project Zero hacker Tavis Ormandy last month reported a number of critical security issues in Symantec solutions, and this is the good news. The bad news is that Symantec promptly fixed one […]
A Google Widevine DRM flaw in the Chrome browser can be exploited to easily download videos streamed from websites such as Amazon Prime Video and Netflix. The flaw was discovered by researchers from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel and the Telekom Innovation Laboratories in Germany. According to the experts, the issue exists […]
Security experts from Sucuri firm have discovered a large botnet of compromised CCTV devices used by crooks to launch DDoS attacks in the wild. Researchers have encountered a denial-of-service botnet that’s made up of more than 25,000 Internet-connected closed circuit TV devices. We discussed several times about the IoT and the lack security by design that makes […]
Experts from the ISACA organization confirmed that SWIFT hackers have stolen $10 million from a Ukrainian bank through SWIFT system. It is happened again, unknown hackers have stolen $10 million from an unnamed Ukrainian bank through SWIFT loophole. The news was spread by the Kyiv branch of ISACA, the Information Systems Audit and Control Association, that confirmed […]
The Saudi-based group of hackers known as OurMine has another illustrious victim, after Mark Zuckerberg they have also hacked the Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s Quora account. OurMine is a hacking collective that is scaring IT giants, the list of victims is very long and include names like Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, David Guetta Daniel Ek, former […]