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Destructive StoneDrill Wiper Malware On The Loose

Posted on March 6, 2017 by Michael Mimoso

Kaspersky Lab released details about new wiper malware called StoneDrill that bears similarities to Shamoon2 and an APT outfit known as NewsBeef. Continue reading Destructive StoneDrill Wiper Malware On The Loose→

Posted in APT, Charming Kitten, Disttrack, Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, Kaspersky Lab, malware, NewsBeef APT, Saudi Arabia, saudi aramco, shamoon, Shamoon 2.0, StoneDrill, targeted attack, Wiper malware

Destructive StoneDrill Wiper Malware On The Loose

Posted on March 6, 2017 by Michael Mimoso

Kaspersky Lab released details about new wiper malware called StoneDrill that bears similarities to Shamoon2 and an APT outfit known as NewsBeef. Continue reading Destructive StoneDrill Wiper Malware On The Loose→

Posted in APT, Charming Kitten, Disttrack, Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, Kaspersky Lab, malware, NewsBeef APT, Saudi Arabia, saudi aramco, shamoon, Shamoon 2.0, StoneDrill, targeted attack, Wiper malware

Howard Schmidt’s Legacy of Service Remembered

Posted on March 3, 2017 by Michael Mimoso

Howard Schmidt, top cybersecurity advisor to two U.S. presidents, died on Thursday at the age of 67. Continue reading Howard Schmidt’s Legacy of Service Remembered→

Posted in (ISC)2, Alan Paller, Barack Obama, Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative, Dave Kennedy, George W. Bush, Government, Howard Schmidt, Jim Langevin, National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace, public policy, RSA Conference, Steve Lipner, White House cybersecurity coordinator

Howard Schmidt’s Legacy of Service Remembered

Posted on March 3, 2017 by Michael Mimoso

Howard Schmidt, top cybersecurity advisor to two U.S. presidents, died on Thursday at the age of 67. Continue reading Howard Schmidt’s Legacy of Service Remembered→

Posted in (ISC)2, Alan Paller, Barack Obama, Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative, Dave Kennedy, George W. Bush, Government, Howard Schmidt, Jim Langevin, National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace, public policy, RSA Conference, Steve Lipner, White House cybersecurity coordinator

Cloudbleed Triggered 1.2M Times, Damage Kept to Minimum

Posted on March 2, 2017 by Michael Mimoso

Cloudflare said it could not find evidence of malicious exploitation of the Cloudbleed vulnerability, even though the bug was triggered 1.2 million times. Continue reading Cloudbleed Triggered 1.2M Times, Damage Kept to Minimum→

Posted in Cloudbleed, cloudflare, Google Project Zero, Matthew Prince, memory leak, Tavis Ormandy, vulnerabilities, Web Security

Yahoo Tells SEC Executives Failed to Act on Breach

Posted on March 2, 2017 by Michael Mimoso

Yahoo said in its latest SEC filing that executives and legal reps failed to act sufficiently on the information they had about breaches that exposed more than 1 billion account records. Continue reading Yahoo Tells SEC Executives Failed to Act on Breach→

Posted in forged cookies, Marissa Mayer, privacy, Ronald Bell, Securities and Exchange Commission, state sponsored attack, Web Security, Yahoo, Yahoo breach, Yahoo SEC filing, Yahoo security team

CloudPets Notifies California AG of Data Breach

Posted on March 1, 2017 by Michael Mimoso

Spiral Toys has filed a breach notification with the California Attorney General’s office informing them of the CloudPets data breach. Continue reading CloudPets Notifies California AG of Data Breach→

Posted in children’s data, CloudPets, database attacks, extortion, Internet-connected toys, IoT, IoT security, MongoDB, privacy, ransom, Shodan, Spiral Toys, Troy Hunt

Million-Plus WordPress Sites Exposed by Vulnerable Plugin

Posted on March 1, 2017 by Michael Mimoso

The popular NextGEN Gallery WordPress plugin was recently patched to address a “severe” SQL injection vulnerability that put website databases at risk. Continue reading Million-Plus WordPress Sites Exposed by Vulnerable Plugin→

Posted in database security, NextGEN plugin, Sucuri, vulnerabilities, Web Security, wordpress, WordPress NextGEN Gallery, WordPress patches, WordPress plugin vulnerability, wordpress vulnerability, wordpress-security

Children’s Voice Messages Leaked in CloudPets Database Breach

Posted on February 28, 2017 by Michael Mimoso

Voice messages from children sent through an internet-connected toy called CloudPets were stolen from an exposed MongoDB database, which has been wiped clean and the data held for ransom. Continue reading Children’s Voice Messages Leaked in CloudPets Database Breach→

Posted in children’s data, CloudPets, database attacks, extortion, Internet-connected toys, IoT security, MongoDB, Niall Merrigan, privacy, ransom, Shodan, Spiral Toys, Troy Hunt, Web Security

Google Releases E2EMail to Open Source

Posted on February 27, 2017 by Michael Mimoso

Google’s E2EMail Chrome extension brings OpenPGP encryption to Gmail users. Continue reading Google Releases E2EMail to Open Source→

Posted in chrome extension, E2EMail, email security, encrypted email, Gmail Security, Google, Open Source Security, OpenPGP, privacy, secure email

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