VMware informed customers on Sunday that it has patched a critical out-of-bounds memory access vulnerability affecting its Workstation and Fusion products.
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U.S. Army to Launch First Bug Bounty Program
Following the success of the “Hack the Pentagon” initiative, the United States Army has announced its intention to launch its first ever bug bounty program in the coming weeks.
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400 Million Accounts Allegedly Stolen From FriendFinder Networks
Breach verification service LeakedSource claims it has obtained over 400 million user accounts stolen by hackers from social networking and multimedia entertainment company FriendFinder Networks, Inc.
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IoT Malware Will Soon Surround Us: Researcher
When it comes to Internet of Things (IoT) devices, everything from smart glasses to connected cars is susceptible to malware infection if not properly secured, Fortinet senior researcher Axelle Apvrille said in a presentation at the DefCamp 2016 security conference in Bucharest, Romania this week.
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U.S. Authorities Reach Settlement With Adobe Over 2013 Breach
Attorneys general in over a dozen U.S. states announced on Thursday that they reached a $1 million settlement with Adobe Systems over the massive data breach suffered by the company in 2013.
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Sixth Individual Arrested in Connection with Coin.mx, Links to JPMorgan Hack
A Florida man is the latest person to be charged in connection with alleged illegal activities associated with coin.mx, a now defunct unlicensed bitcoin exchange. Riccardo Hill, a resident of Brandon, Florida was charged with conspiring to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business. He was released Thursday on a $75,000 bond following a court appearance in Manhattan.
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Digital Threat Monitoring Firm RiskIQ Raises $30 Million
RiskIQ, a company that helps detect digital threats stemming from areas such as the Web, malvertising and social media, announced that it has closed $30.5 million in a Series C funding round led by Georgian Partners.
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Capgemini Leaks Data of Recruitment Firm PageGroup
Job-related information belonging to hundreds of thousands of individuals was exposed online after Capgemini inadvertently made public a database of Michael Page, a brand of UK-based global recruitment company PageGroup.
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Governments Show Contradictory Attitude Towards Privacy and Data Protection
Governments across the world are showing a contradictory attitude towards privacy and data protection. On the one hand new legislation insists that business is minutely protective of personally identifiable information (PII), while at the same time PII must be more readily handed to law enforcement.
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Low-Bandwidth “BlackNurse” DDoS Attacks Can Disrupt Firewalls
Researchers warn that certain types of low bandwidth distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks can cause some widely used enterprise firewalls to enter a temporary DoS condition.
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