Collaborate Disseminate
Health care initiatives such as the campaign to encourage proper hand-washing can serve as blueprints for CISOs seeking to drive security awareness.
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Verizon patched late last year persistent- DOM-based cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in its Message+ messaging client that could allow an attacker to control a user’s session. Continue reading Verizon Patches XSS Issues in its Messaging Client
Is a fox running the FCC’s henhouse?
Net neutrality is a boring but noble cause. It ensures the internet favours no one. So, why is the new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Ajit Pai, determined to scrap it?”For decades before 2015,” said Pai in a recent speech broadcast on C-SPAN2, “we had a free and open internet. Indeed, the free and open internet developed and flourished Continue reading Staying Neutral
The much anticipated 2017 Verizon DBIR was recently released, and has some interesting data for social engineering attacks in 2016. Social-Engineer is proud to have been a contributor to this year’s report. Below are highlights from the report, and some tips at the end on how to stay safe. Verizon studied 42,068 security incidents that resulted in 1,935 breaches. Overall, 43% of the documented breaches involved social engineering attacks! That’s almost half, and these are only representative of the reported/documented breaches. Figure 1: Overall breaches using Social Attacks Not surprisingly, 66% of malware came from malicious email attachments. These could […] Continue Reading >
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Verizon has agreed to pay $3.1 billion for wireless spectrum holder Straight Path Communications, beating out rival AT&T, which had offered to buy Straight Path for $1.6 billion in stock. Verizon’s acquisition will give it access to the frequencies… Continue reading Verizon Outbids AT&T For Nationwide 5G Wireless Spectrum
Over the past two weeks readers have pointed KrebsOnSecurity to no fewer than three different healthcare providers that failed to provide the most basic care to protect their patients’ records online. Only one of the three companies — the subject of today’s story — required users to be logged in order to view all patient records.
A week ago I heard from Troy Mursch, an IT consultant based in Las Vegas. A big fan of proactive medical testing, Mursch said he’s been getting his various lab results reviewed annually for the past two years with the help of a company based in Frisco, Texas called True Health Diagnostics. Continue reading Website Flaw Let True Health Diagnostics Users View All Medical Records
Only a few days after announcing that it was selling 29 of its data centers to Equinix, Verizon today announced that it is selling its cloud and managed hosting business to IBM. The acquisition is expected to close later this year. This move pretty much puts an end to Verizon’s loftier ambitions in the cloud — an area it started pursuing in earnest back in 2011 when it acquired… Read More Continue reading Verizon sells its private cloud and managed hosting businesses to IBM
Breaches involving major players in the hospitality industry continue to pile up. Today, travel industry giant Sabre Corp. disclosed what could be a significant breach of payment and customer data tied to bookings processed through a reservations system that serves more than 32,000 hotels and other lodging establishments.
In a quarterly filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today, Southlake, Texas-based Sabre said it was “investigating an incident of unauthorized access to payment information contained in a subset of hotel reservations processed through our Hospitality Solutions SynXis Central Reservations system.” Continue reading Breach at Sabre Corp.’s Hospitality Unit
Equinix, an international data center company based in Redwood City, California, announced today that it had completed the purchase of 29 data centers from Verizon for $3.6 billion. The deal was announced in December. Verizon owns AOL, which owns TechCrunch. The acquisition greatly expands the Equinix footprint including giving it access to to Latin America through the Bogota, Colombia,… Read More Continue reading Equinix completes $3.6 billion deal to buy 29 data centers from Verizon