Gotham Security Daily Threat Alerts

By Nancy Rand
Posted in Security
On September 26, 2016

September 22, SecurityWeek – (International) Yahoo confirms massive data breach of 500 million accounts. Yahoo Inc. confirmed September 22 that a hacker, dubbed “Peace” and “peace_of_mind” accessed the data from at least 500 million user accounts, including names, email address, hashed passwords, and birth dates, among other information, during a 2014 cyberattack. Yahoo stated unencrypted security questions and answers were invalidated and advised potentially affected users to change their passwords. Source

September 22, SecurityWeek – (International) Over a dozen vulnerabilities patched in OpenSSL. The OpenSSL project released OpenSSL versions 1.1.0a, 1.0.2i, and 1.0.1u resolving more than 12 vulnerabilities, including a high severity flaw after a security researcher from Qihoo 360 discovered the issue can be exploited to carry out denial-of-service (DoS) attacks by sending the targeted device a large Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) Status Request extension, among other vulnerabilities. Source

Above Reprinted from the USDHS Daily Open Source Infrastructure Report

Nancy Rand

Nancy Rand

Nancy has more than 20 years’ experience in information technology and security, solving business issues and implementing best-practice solutions that support organizational objectives. Her expertise includes leveraging, optimizing, and implementing diverse technology platforms, and management of large-scale technology projects.