Security News

Who needs foreign servers? Researchers say the USA is doing a fine job of harboring its own crimeware flingers
2019-04-04 07:01

Domestic hosts and servers are being used for major attacks, finds Bromium A collection of servers found in the US are responsible for some of the nation's biggest malware and phishing attacks.…

A patchy Apache a-patchin: HTTP server gets fix for worrying root access hole
2019-04-03 19:52

Rogue 'worker' processes can sneak in with elevated privileges at startup Apache HTTP Server has been given a patch to address a potentially serious elevation of privilege vulnerability.…

540 Million Facebook User Records Found On Unprotected Amazon Servers
2019-04-03 19:18

It's been a bad week for Facebook users. First, the social media company was caught asking some of its new users to share passwords for their registered email accounts and now… ...the bad week...

New Apache Web Server Bug Threatens Security of Shared Web Hosts
2019-04-02 17:48

Mark J Cox, one of the founding members of the Apache Software Foundation and the OpenSSL project, today posted a tweet warning users about a recently discovered important flaw in Apache HTTP...

Proxmox Server Solutions releases a new version of its open-source email security solution
2019-03-27 23:30

Enterprise software developer Proxmox Server Solutions has released Proxmox Mail Gateway 5.2, the latest version of its open-source email security solution. The Mail Gateway is a complete...

ASUS confirms server compromise, releases fixed Live Update tool
2019-03-27 10:27

ASUS has finally confirmed that its servers were compromised and that its ASUS Live Update tool has been tampered with, as revealed on Monday. “ASUS has also implemented a fix in the latest...

Kaspersky: Asus shipped 'million-plus' pre-pwned PCs that downloaded backdoor from update server
2019-03-25 18:34

Hackers were interested in 600 or so targets, it is claimed Asus may have shipped more than a million computers with compromised firmware that downloaded and ran spyware on the machines, Kaspersky...

Warning: ASUS Software Update Server Hacked to Distribute Malware
2019-03-25 16:18

Remember the CCleaner hack? CCleaner hack was one of the largest supply chain attacks that infected more than 2.3 million users with a backdoored version of the software in September 2017....

Sacked IT guy annihilates 23 of his ex-employer’s AWS servers
2019-03-22 12:18

He was fired after four weeks, ripped off the credentials of former colleague "Speedy", and will be mulling it all over for two years in jail.

Email Server Migration Incident Impacts 277,000
2019-03-21 19:03

Third-Party Vendor at Center of BreachAn incident involving a third-party vendor migrating a server containing archived email of a medical device provider has resulted in a reported health data...