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Google Is Backing Security Reviews Of These Key Open Source Projects

Packet Storm 17 Sep 2021 23076 Views

Customer Care Giant TTEC Hit By Ransomware

TTEC, [NASDAQ: TTEC], a company used by some of the world's largest brands to help manage customer support and sales online and over the phone, is dealing with disruptions from a network security incident that appears to be the result of a ransomware attack...
Krebs on Security 16 Sep 2021 651 Views

No Patch for High-Severity Bug in Legacy IBM System X Servers

Two of IBM's aging flagship server models, retired in 2020, won’t be patched for a command-injection flaw.
Threatpost 16 Sep 2021 441 Views

Mēris Botnet Hit Russia's Yandex With Massive 22 Million RPS DDoS Attack

Russian internet giant Yandex has been the target of a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack by a new botnet called Mēris. The botnet is believed to have pummeled the company's web infrastructure with millions of HTTP requests, before...
The Hacker News 11 Sep 2021 15049 Views

Microsoft Warns of Cross-Account Takeover Bug in Azure Container Instances

Microsoft on Wednesday said it remediated a vulnerability in its Azure Container Instances (ACI) services that could have been weaponized by a malicious actor "to access other customers' information" in what the researchers described as the "first cross-account container takeover in...
The Hacker News 11 Sep 2021 14495 Views

McDonald’s Email Blast Includes Password to Monopoly Game Database

Usernames, passwords for database sent in prize redemption emails.
Threatpost 10 Sep 2021 491 Views

Attacker releases credentials for 87,000 FortiGate SSL VPN devices

Access data for FortiGate devices was obtained by exploiting a known, old vulnerability.
ZDnet 9 Sep 2021 841 Views

Phishing attacks: One in three suspect emails reported by employees really are malicious

Up to a third of emails that were flagged as suspicious by employees were actually a threat, according to a new report.
ZDnet 9 Sep 2021 781 Views

What Ragnar Locker Got Wrong About Ransomware Negotiators – Podcast

There are a lot of "tells" that the ransomware group doesn't understand how negotiators work, despite threatening to dox data if victims call for help.
Threatpost 9 Sep 2021 478 Views

Can WhatsApp moderators really read your encrypted texts? Yes ... if you forward them to the abuse dept

Where did people think spam and harassment reports were going? Facebook's WhatsApp states its messages are protected by the Signal encryption protocol. A report published today by investigative non-profit ProPublica contends that WhatsApp communication is less private than users understand or expect.…
The Register 8 Sep 2021 13074 Views