Tag: security

United States based insurance company State Farm has begun to send out email notifications to users whose online account login credentials were discovered by an attacker during a credential stuffing attack. […]

The web site for the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY was hacked to include a malicious MageCart script that stole the payment information of customers who purchased items on the site. […]

A vulnerability in Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) can also be used to escape virtual machines running on Hyper-V, the virtualization technology in Azure and Windows 10. […]

Several vulnerabilities in apps available for LeapFrog’s LeapPad tablets for children could be used to locate kids, interact with them, or phish parents for sensitive info. The tablets themselves did not use HTTPS, exposing them to packet sniffing. […]

The authors behind LokiBot info-stealer have turned to steganography to add a new layer of obfuscation, the researchers discovered in a recent variant of the malware. […]

Millions of mobile phones were illegally unlocked by AT&T insiders who took bribes of hundreds of thousands of US dollars to also plant unauthorized tools and devices on the company’s internal network. […]

Both Microsoft and Redhat have released advisories about a new variant of the Spectre 1 speculative execution side channel vulnerabilities that could allow a malicious program to access and read the contents of privileged memory in an operating system. […]

A new variant of Echobot botnet has been spotted to include over 50 exploits leading to remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities in various Internet-of-Things devices. […]

CafePress, a well-known custom T-Shirt and merchandise site, suffered a data breach that exposed the personal information of 23 million of their customers. […]

Two serious vulnerabilities in Qualcomm’s Snapdragon system-on-a-chip (SoC) WLAN firmware could be leveraged to compromise the modem and the Android kernel over the air. […]