Security News > 2017 > September

Deloitte Hacked — Cyber Attack Exposes Clients' Secret Emails
2017-09-25 10:15

Another day, another data breach. This time one of the world's "big four" accountancy firms has fallen victim to a sophisticated cyber attack. Global tax and auditing firm Deloitte has confirmed...

Verizon Engineer Exposes Internal System Data
2017-09-25 08:46

Researchers discovered an unprotected Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 bucket containing potentially sensitive information associated with a system used internally by Verizon. read more

Adobe Accidentally Posts Private PGP Key
2017-09-25 07:40

Adobe’s product security incident response team (PSIRT) accidentally published a private PGP key on its blog. The compromised key was quickly revoked and a new key was generated after the incident...

Week in review: CCleaner compromise, Optionsbleed, and Linux devices sending out spam
2017-09-25 00:28

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Hackers behind CCleaner compromise were after Intel, Microsoft, Cisco There is a new twist in the CCleaner hack saga:...

Google Patches High Risk Flaws in Chrome
2017-09-23 01:18

Google this week released an updated version of Chrome 61 to address two High severity vulnerabilities. Available for download as version 61.0.3163.100, the new Chrome iteration was pushed to all...

Analyzing Changes to EHR Certification Practices
2017-09-22 21:02

Recent changes by the HHS to the certification program for electronic health record software could potentially weaken efforts to ensure EHRs meet federal requirements, including those that impact...

Massive Spam Runs Distribute Locky Ransomware
2017-09-22 20:08

Locky ransomware, the infamous threat that dominated malware charts in 2016, is being aggressively distributed in a series of spam runs that have been ongoing for several weeks, security...

Verizon Wireless Internal Credentials, Infrastructure Details Exposed in Amazon S3 Bucket
2017-09-22 19:56

Verizon is the latest company to leak confidential data through an exposed Amazon S3 bucket.

Enterprise cloud adoption and IaaS security
2017-09-22 19:21

Barracuda Networks and research firm Vanson Bourne polled 300 IT decision makers from organizations across the US on their use of public cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Survey results...

EternalBlue Exploit Used in Retefe Banking Trojan Campaign
2017-09-22 18:02

Banking Trojan Retefe is adopting new WannaCry tricks, adding an EternalBlue module to propagate the malware.