Zeljka Zorz
Quora data breach: 100 million users affected
Question-and-answer website Quora has suffered a data breach that may have affected approximately 100 million of its users. About Quora Quora was founded in June 2009 by …
Detecting malicious behavior blended with business-justified activity
With organizations moving to the cloud and remote workers becoming the rule rather than the exception, the definition of the network is changing. Add to this the increasing …
Adobe plugs critical RCE Flash Player flaw, update ASAP! Exploitation may be imminent
Adobe has released a Flash Player update that plugs a critical vulnerability (CVE-2018-15981) that could lead to remote code execution, and is urging users to implement it as …
Make-A-Wish website compromised to serve cryptojacking script
Visitors of the international website of the US-based non-profit Make-A-Wish Foundation have had their computing power misused to covertly mine cryptocurrency, Trustwave …
“Classic” bugs open TP-Link’s SafeStream Gigabit Broadband VPN Router to attack
Cisco Talos researchers have flagged four serious vulnerabilities in TP-Link’s SafeStream Gigabit Broadband VPN Router (TL-R600VPN). All four affect the device’s …
New security feature to prevent Amazon S3 bucket misconfiguration and data leaks
Hardly a week goes by that we don’t hear about an organization leaving sensitive data exposed on the Internet because they failed to properly configure their Amazon S3 …
Helping researchers with IoT firmware vulnerability discovery
John Toterhi, a security researcher with IoT security company Finite State, believes that many of the security problems plaguing IoT devices are solvable problems through …
November 2018 Patch Tuesday: Microsoft fixes 63 flaws, one actively exploited zero-day
As part of the November 2018 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has released 62 security patches and several advisories. There are 12 critical vulnerabilities among those patched this …
BEC scammers stole €19m from film company Pathé
The Dutch branch of the French film production and distribution company Pathé has lost over 19 million euros to BEC scammers, Dutch News reported. The scam Information about …
Cybersecurity and ethical data management: Getting it right
Data can provide information, information can lead to insight and knowledge, and knowledge is power. It’s no wonder, then, that seemingly everybody in this modern, …
1 in 5 merchants compromised by Magecart get reinfected
The Magecart threat looms large for online retailers and their customers, as the criminal groups that have been assigned this collective name are constantly trying out new …
Chrome will start warning users about shady mobile subscription pages
Google has announced that, starting from Chrome 71, users will be explicitly warned when attempting to visit pages that try to trick them into signing up for mobile-based …