Security News > 2021
DDoS, SQL injection and man-in-the-middle are just a few of the attacks that can compromise your network. Tom Merritt lists five things to know about network attacks.
The Clop ransomware gang claims to have stolen documents from aerospace giant Bombardier's defense division - and has leaked what appears to be a CAD drawing of one of its military aircraft products, raising fears over what else they've got. Bombardier confirmed its security had been breached, putting out a public statement only minutes after The Register grilled the Canadian business jet maker on the Clop gang's claims.
The Winamp Community Update Project has released Preview version 1.0.20.7170 with many fixes and improvements for the Winamp media player. WACUP is a project by ex-Winamp developer Darren Owen to fix bugs and extend the Winamp 5.66 media player's functionality through the program's plugin feature.
NurseryCam, a webcam service used across 40 daycare centers in the U.K. by parents who want to keep a watchful eye on their babies, has shut down following a data breach. By Saturday, the NurseryCam service was shut down while a fix is being sorted out.
Keybase, owned by online meeting and teleconferencing behemoth Zoom, is a secure messaging and file sharing service that describes itself as providing "End-to-end encryption for things that matter." If you copy an unencrypted file from a USB drive to your laptop, for example, before uploading it into a service such as Keybase, neither the Keybase app nor the Keybase servers can do anything about those two unencrypted copies of the file that now exist.
IBM has patched a critical buffer-overflow error that affects Big Blue's Integration Designer toolset, which helps enterprises create business processes that integrate applications and data. "By sending an overly long string, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the application to crash," according to IBM's Monday security advisory.
VMware has addressed a critical remote code execution vulnerability in the vCenter Server virtual infrastructure management platform that may allow attackers to potentially take control of affected systems. "The vSphere Client contains a remote code execution vulnerability in a vCenter Server plugin," VMware explains in the advisory.
Finnish IT services giant TietoEVRY has suffered a ransomware attack that forced them to disconnect clients' services. TietoEVRY is a Finnish software development and IT services company that employs 24,000 people throughout 80 countries.
LinkedIn is down for many users, including on the web and mobile, and we are not sure why. BleepingComputer has observed accessing LinkedIn shows obscure error messages to users around the world.
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