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The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) leaked sensitive data online through a publicly accessibly Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 bucket. Public search engine Censys indexed the misconfigured asset on 14 November during a regular security audit of … Continue reading Australian Broadcasting Corporation Leaked Data through AWS S3 Bucket
Enterprise networks regularly see change in their devices, software installations, and file content. These modifications can create risk for the organization. Fortunately, companies can mitigate such risk by implementing foundational security controls…. Continue reading What Is Vulnerability Management?
Enterprise networks regularly see change in their devices, software installations, and file content. These modifications can create risk for the organization. Fortunately, companies can mitigate such risk by implementing foundational security controls…. Continue reading What Is Vulnerability Management?
Scammers stole S$80,000 from a woman by tricking her into visiting a fake phishing website for the Singapore Police Force (SPF). On 13 November, local law enforcement received a report from the woman that someone had stolen several thousand Singapore d… Continue reading Scammers Steal S$80K from Woman Using Fake Police Website
Several thousand spam bots incorporated quotations from a Star Wars novel into the attack messages they sent out to their targets. The assault began on 10 October 2017. 33 unrelated domains on security CDN Incapsula’s network received approximately 275,000 WinHTTP POST requests leading up to 16 October. The next week, those numbers jumped up to […]… Read More
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Microsoft has patched a 17-year-old bug hidden in its Office suite that attackers can use to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable machines. The vulnerability resides in Microsoft Equation Editor (EQNEDT32.EXE). It’s a component that allows users to insert and edit equations into Microsoft Word documents as an Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) item. This object […]… Read More
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A cryptocurrency miner has earned its place on a list of the top 10 most wanted malware for the month of October 2017. The browser-mining service in question goes by the name “CoinHive.” It’s a piece of JavaScript that site owners can embed into their websites. Whenever a user visits their domain thereafter, CoinHive will […]… Read More
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A group of Muslim activists hacked a ‘secure’ mailing list used by the ISIS terrorist group and published 2,000 of its email subscribers online. On 10 November, a spokesperson for Amaq, one of the Islamic State’s key outlets for communicating with its supporters and members, sent out an email written in Arabic to its subscribers. […]… Read More
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Hackers have done the unthinkable by making off with a charity’s funds right before the start of the 2017 Christmas season. The Utah Association for Intellectual Disabilities (UAID) first noticed something was wrong when it had not received any new email applications for help since 22 October. Typically, the charity gets numerous applications in preparation […]… Read More
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File integrity monitoring (FIM) exists because change is prolific in organizations’ IT environments. Hardware assets change. Software programs change. Configuration states change. Some of these modifications are authorized insofar as they occur d… Continue reading What Is FIM (File Integrity Monitoring)?