Articles In Security

By Nancy Rand, Posted in Security

February 11, Softpedia – (International) Cyber Caliphate hackers take over Twitter account of Newsweek. The FBI is investigating a February 10 hijack of Newsweek’s Twitter feed in which attackers claiming to be Islamic State (ISIS)-affiliated hacker group Cyber Caliphate posted threats to the U.S. President’s family before the company regained control of the feed within 14 minutes. Newsweek confirmed that the Twitter accounts of International Business Times and Latin Times were also hijacked by the group. S... read more.

• February 12, 2015

By Nancy Rand, Posted in Security

February 10, Softpedia – (International) About 40,000 MongoDB databases found open online. Three Saarland University cyber-security students reported security vulnerabilities in MongoDB’s database configuration, including servers with no access control mechanisms that could potentially allow access outside the backend and expose the information of millions of customers to unauthorized parties. An initial scan found nearly 40,000 databases that were open, prompting the researchers to submit their findings to... read more.

• February 11, 2015

By Nancy Rand, Posted in Security

February 9, Securityweek – (International) DDoS malware for Linux distributed via SSH brute force attacks. FireEye researchers reported February 9 that a campaign utilizing Secure Shell (SSH) brute force attacks to install a distributed denial of service (DDoS) XOR.DDoS malware, first discovered by Malware Must Die in September 2014, has executed nearly 1 million login attempts between November 2014 and the end of January. Source February 9, Securityweek – (National) Tax fraud prompts Intuit to temporari... read more.

• February 10, 2015

By Nancy Rand, Posted in Security

February 5, Softpedia – (International) Flash Player 16.0.0.305 patches zero-day vulnerability. Adobe released an update for its Flash Player affecting version 16.0.0.296 and earlier versions for Windows and Macintosh that fixes a zero-day vulnerability reported by Trend Micro researchers. The vulnerability was leveraged by attackers through the Hanjuan exploit kit in malvertising campaigns on popular Web sites targeting Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox users. Source February 5, Softpedia – (Interna... read more.

• February 06, 2015