Cybercrime

400,000 UK consumers at risk after the Equifax data breach

About 400,000 Britons may have had their information stolen following the Equifax data breach, the news was reported by the…

8 years ago

Equifax- or the new gold standard for “how not to do Incident Response”!

The cybersecurity expert Stuart Peck, Director of Cyber Security Strategy, ZeroDayLab, shared its view on the Equifax data breach. For…

8 years ago

Hackers are offering Equifax data for sale, but they are scammers

It has happened, the information stolen in the recent Equifax data breach is offered for sale on the dark web by…

8 years ago

CVE-2017-5638 Apache Struts vulnerability is the root cause behind Equifax data breach

It's official, the Equifax data breach case was caused by the exploitation of the CVE-2017-5638 Apache Struts vulnerability. The Equifax…

8 years ago

Backdoored Display Widgets Plugin potentially affects 200,000 WordPress installs abusing them to spam content

Around 200,000 WordPress websites using the Display Widgets Plugin were impacted after it was updated to include malicious code. According…

8 years ago

Thousands of Elasticsearch installs compromised to host PoS Malware

Experts discovered 4,000 compromised installations on Amazon AWS of open source analytics and search tool Elasticsearch that were running PoS malware. Security…

8 years ago

MongoDB improves security amid new wave of ransom-attacks

MongoDB company implements new data security features in response to the recent wave of ransom attacks that hit installations worldwide.…

8 years ago

Apache Foundation rejects allegation Equifax hackers exploited CVE-2017-9805 in Struts

Media and experts speculate Equifax Hack was the result of the exploitation of the recently discovered critical vulnerability CVE-2017-9805 in…

8 years ago

Member of the ‘Crackas With Attitude’ who hacked US intel officials has been sentenced to 5 years in jail

A member of the hacker group 'Crackas With Attitude' who hacked US intel officials has been sentenced to 5 years in…

8 years ago

Equifax data breach could impact 143 million US consumers

Equifax, one of the three major US consumer credit reporting agencies is the last victim of a data breach that…

8 years ago

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