Canada-based wireless communications equipment manufacturer Sierra Wireless has warned customers that some of its rugged gateway products can become infected with Mirai malware if not configured properly.
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Cybercriminals Target Blockchain in DNS Attack
Blockchain, the developer of the world’s most popular Bitcoin wallet, suffered an outage this week after malicious actors breached the systems of its registrar and changed its DNS servers.
The company reported on Wednesday that it had detected a DNS issue. It later learned that attackers had compromised its DNS registrar.
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Verizon Says Massive Yahoo Hack Could Impact Deal
Verizon said Thursday the massive breach affecting 500 million Yahoo customers could have a "material" effect on the $4.8 billion deal to acquire key assets of the Internet group.
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CryPy Ransomware Uses Unique Key for Each File
A newly observed ransomware family that was written in Python fetches a unique key for each of the victim’s files before encryption, Kaspersky researchers warn.
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Critical Vulnerability Patched in Cisco Conferencing Product
Flaw in Cisco Meeting Server Allows Hackers to Impersonate Legitimate Users
A critical vulnerability in one of Cisco’s enterprise video conferencing products allows remote attackers to impersonate legitimate users, the networking giant warned on Wednesday.
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False Flags and Mis-Direction in Hacker Attribution
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Continue readingAnother Potential Victim of the Yahoo! Breach: Federated Login
Password proliferation is bad, for many, many, many reasons. But the worst reason is that people tend to re-use passwords all over the place.
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Attackers Use Decade-Old Flaw to Target IoT Devices
Cybercriminals have been exploiting an old SSH vulnerability and insecure configurations to abuse Internet of Things (IoT) devices for attacks aimed at Web services and internal networks.
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Zeus Banking Trojan Distributed via MSG Attachments
A recently spotted spam campaign was using Message (.MSG) file attachments to infect users with the infamous Zbot banking Trojan, Trustwave security researchers say.
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A Spell Check Equivalent for Building Security In
I can honestly say that spell check is the reason I now know how to spell “separate.” It only took about 20 years of patient and faithful repetition from Microsoft Word.
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