Japanese electronics and IT giant NEC confirmed a security breach suffered by its defense business division in December 2016. The IT giant NEC confirmed that the company defense business division has suffered a security breach back in December 2016. The Japanese firm confirmed the unauthorized access to its internal network after Japanese newspapers disclosed the security […]
The United States appreciated European Union’s new rules on 5G networks, but pressed them to ban China’s Huawei technology. The EU’s executive Commission this week presented a set of rules and technical measures aimed at reducing cybersecurity risks from the adoption of 5G networks. The Commission’s recommendations include blocking high-risk equipment suppliers from “critical and […]
Experts at cyber security firm Cypher conducted a study on Portuguese domains during 2019 and concluded that Emotet and Ryuk were the most active threats Emotet, the most widespread malware worldwide and Ryuk, a ransomware type, are growing threats and real concerns for businesses and internet users in 2020. This is the conclusion of a […]
Check Point detailed two recently patched vulnerabilities in Microsoft Azure services that could have allowed hackers to take over cloud services. Check Point researchers have published technical details of two recently fixed flaws in Microsoft Azure that could have allowed hackers to take over cloud services. Azure App Service allows users to build and host multi-platform web apps, mobile […]
Over 200K WordPress sites are exposed to attacks due to a high severity cross-site request forgery (CSRF) bug in Code Snippets plugin. A high severity cross-site request forgery (CSRF) bug, tracked as CVE-2020-8417, in Code Snippets plugin could be exploited by attackers to take over WordPress sites running vulnerable versions of the Code Snippets plugin. The […]
The popular US government contractor Electronic Warfare Associates (EWA) has suffered a ransomware attack, the news was reported by ZDNet. Last week, the US government contractor Electronic Warfare Associates (EWA) has suffered a ransomware attack that also infected its web servers. Electronic Warfare Associates provides electronic equipment to the US government, the list of customers […]
New revelations on the Wawa card data breach suggests that the incident might have exposed 30 million customers’ data that are now available online for sale. In December 2019, Wawa convenience store chain disclosed a payment card breach, its security team discovered a PoS malware on its payment processing systems. Wawa operates more than 860 convenience retail stores, this […]
Security researchers have spotted a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-7247, that affects a core email-related library used by many BSD and Linux distributions. Security experts from Qualys have discovered a flaw, tracked as CVE-2020-7247, in OpenSMTPD. OpenSMTPD is an open-source implementation of the server-side SMTP protocol as defined by RFC 5321, it includes also some additional […]
Researchers investigate a new perceptual challenge that causes the ADAS systems and autopilots of semi/fully autonomous to consider depthless objects (phantoms) as real. Abstract The absence of deployed vehicular communication systems, which prevents the advanced driving assistance systems (ADASs) and autopilots of semi/fully autonomous cars to validate their virtual perception regarding the physical environment surrounding […]
Magento has released version 2.3.4 to address multiple vulnerabilities, some of them are critical code execution issues. Magento version 2.3.4 has addressed several vulnerabilities in its e-commerce platform, come of them are critical code execution issues. The vulnerabilities affect Magento Commerce (2.3.3/2.2.10 and below), Open Source (2.3.3/2.2.10 and below), Enterprise Edition (1.14.4.3 and earlier), and […]