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"Critical Vulnerability Allows Hackers to Disrupt SonicWall Firewalls"Researchers at Tripwire and Positive Technologies discovered a critical vulnerability that impacts several versions of SonicOS, the operating system run by SonicWall firewalls. The researchers have described the flaw as a stack-based buffer overflow.…
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"Cybercrime Losses Up 50%, Exceeding $1.8B"Fewer organizations are reporting cyber incidents. However, for those that are experiencing these incidents, the attacks have increased in severity. According to the 2020 Cyber Readiness Report released by Hiscox, a Bermuda-based insurance provider, the…
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"VoIP Firm Broadvoice Leaks 350 Million Customer Records"Researchers discovered 10 unprotected Elasticsearch database clusters belonging to Broadvoice on October 1st that contained over 350 million customer records. One of the databases included more than 275 million records. The records included full…
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"Barnes & Noble Hack: A Reading List for Phishers and Crooks"Barnes & Noble is warning that it has been hacked, potentially exposing personal data for shoppers. The cyberattack occurred on October 10 and resulted in unauthorized and unlawful access to certain Barnes & Noble corporate systems. …
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"Carnival Confirms Passenger Data Compromised"During an investigation, Carnival Corporation has discovered that passenger and employee data from three different cruise lines were accessed in a ransomware attack in August. The cruise lines affected include Carnival Cruise Line, Holland America Line,…
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"CISA Urges Patch of Windows Remote Code Execution TCP/IP Flaw, DoS Risk"The Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has advised organizations to apply the patch released for a Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability discovered in the Microsoft Windows Transmission Control (…
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"Some Employees More Likely to Adhere to Information Security Policies Than Others"A new study conducted by Binghamton University, State University of New York, suggests that an organization's subcultures influence whether or not employees violate Information Security Policies (ISP). As each subculture within an organization responds…
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"Hackers Claim to Have Access to 50,000 Home Security Cameras"A hacking group composed of over 1,000 global members is advertising access to more than 50,000 hacked home security cameras for sale on the messaging platform Discord. The group claims to have shared over 3 TB of video clips and stills with members. The…
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"New Website Predicts Likelihood of Cyberattacks Between Nations"A team of computer scientists and international studies students at Johns Hopkins University developed a new online database called the Cyber Attack Predictive Index (CAPI) that can predict the likelihood of a cyberattack between nations. The site…
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"Cybercriminals Steal Nearly 1TB of Data from Miami-Based International Tech Firm"Researchers have discovered nearly a terabyte of data that was stolen during a ransomware attack from a Miami-based tech firm called Intcomex on a Russian-language hacker forum. The databases stolen by the adversaries were uploaded to the…
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"Fooling Deepfake Detectors"Deepfakes refer to synthetic media, including images and videos, created using Artificial Intelligence (AI). Deepfakes remain a significant issue despite recent developments in security measures that can detect many of them. Bart Kosko, a professor in…
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"Security Researchers Awarded over $250,000 for Reporting 55 Vulnerabilities in Apple's Bug Bounty Program"As part of Apple's bug bounty program, a team of researchers analyzed the company's online services and found a total of 55 vulnerabilities, 11 of which were flagged as critical. The team received a reward of $288,500 for their findings. According to the…