Security News > 2024 > February
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Verizon Communications is warning that an insider data breach impacts almost half its workforce, exposing sensitive employee information.A data breach notification shared with the Office of the Maine Attorney General reveals that a Verizon employee gained unauthorized access to a file containing sensitive employee information on September 21, 2023.
Global securities finance tech company EquiLend's systems are now back online after announcing a disruptive ransomware attack nearly two weeks ago. Providing regular updates via a dedicated web page, EquiLend almost completed its full restoration last week, waiting only for its data and analytics solutions to get back up and running.
AI SPERA, a leader in Cyber Threat Intelligence-based solutions, today announced that Criminal IP ASM is now available on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. Through this partnership, AI SPERA showcases Criminal IP ASM on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace in the security service listings.
A publicly exposed API of social media platform Spoutible may have allowed threat actors to scrape information that can be used to hijack user accounts. The problem with the Spoutible API. Security consultant Troy Hunt has been tipped off about the API by an individual who shared a file with 207,000 Spoutible user records - supposedly scraped via the API - and an URL that would allow Hunt to do the same with his own account.
Threat actors are leveraging bogus Facebook job advertisements as a lure to trick prospective targets into installing a new Windows-based stealer malware codenamed Ov3r_Stealer. "This malware is...
Three new security vulnerabilities have been discovered in Azure HDInsight's Apache Hadoop, Kafka, and Spark services that could be exploited to achieve privilege escalation and a regular...
Fortinet's FortiSIEM product is vulnerable to two new maximum-severity security vulnerabilities that allow for remote code execution. In registering the CVE identities for the vulnerabilities, Fortinet linked to its own advisory to provide more information, but the link directs users to an older issue that was addressed in early October 2023.
SaaS applications are the darlings of the software world. They enable work from anywhere, facilitate collaboration, and offer a cost-effective alternative to owning the software outright. At the...