Infosecurity News
Alert Over Bugs in Medfusion Syringe Pumps
ICS-CERT releases mitigation advice
MongoDB Ransom Victims Had No Account Passwords
Database provider tries to improve customers’ security awareness
Equifax Breach, Affecting 45% of US Population, Raises Big Questions
Questions abound as to the company’s governance and stewardship of citizen data.
Bug Exposed .UK Domains to Hijacking Risk for Months
Registrar Enom has now fixed the issue
Equifax Reports 143 Million Records Breached
US-based credit monitoring service Equifax has reported a data breach of 143 million records.
Mexican VAT Refund Giant Exposes Half-Million Passports, Credit Cards Online
MoneyBack left a misconfigured database open, with passport info, credit card numbers, travel tickets and other credentials.
SMBs Largely Unprepared for IoT, Ransomware Attacks
Nearly half of them would pay a ransom on connected things to reclaim their data.
Dragonfly 2.0 Attackers Probe Energy Sector
Determined group may already have access to operational systems, warns Symantec
Lenovo Slapped with $3.5M Fine over Superfish
32 states have won a multimillion dollar settlement to resolve violations of state consumer protection laws.
Apache Struts Vulns Threatens Fortune 500 Data
A critical remote code execution vulnerability has been found in the popular open-source framework, threatening corporate data.
Enterprises Struggle to Contain “Information Security Debt”
451 Research claims consolidation must focus on data and risk-centric approaches
MongoDB Customers Held to Ransom Again
Over 75,000 victims and counting
28 Million Users Breached at Taringa, Latin America's Reddit
The records included usernames, email addresses and passwords hashed with the easily cracked MD5 algorithm.
Latvia Warns of Growing Russian Fake News Challenge
West is failing to halt Kremlin propaganda, says foreign minister
Non-Profit Calls for UK-Ireland Cyber Task Force
Countries facing increased threat levels post-Brexit, warns ICCTF
Instagram Hackers May Have Details on Six Million Users
Celeb victims include Taylor Swift and Leonardo Di Caprio
GitLab Vulns Could Lead to Session Hijacking
The vulnerability stems from the type of session tokens used by GitLab.
MacEwan University Defrauded Out of $11.8mn in Phishing Attack
Staff fell for a business email compromise gambit after receiving a request to change banking info for a vendor.
Juniper to Acquire Cyphort
Juniper will use the buy to shore up its own cyber-portfolio—including its virtualized security offerings.
Foreign Firms Should Fear New Chinese Cyber-Law: Report
Source code reviews could generate exploits for Chinese spies
