News problems for Facebook that admitted to have stored the passwords of hundreds of millions of users in plain text. Facebook revealed to have stored the passwords of hundreds of millions of users in plain text, including passwords of Facebook Lite, Facebook, and Instagram users. “As part of a routine security review […]
Année : 2019
Pwn2Own 2019 Day 2 – Hackers earned $270,000 for Firefox, Edge hacks
On the second day of the Pwn2Own 2019 hacking competition, white hat hackers earned a total of $270,000 for exploits against the Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge web browsers. Day 2 at Pwn2Own 2019 hacking competition – White hat hackers earned $270,000 for exploits against the Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft […]
Cisco addresses High-Severity flaws in IP Phone 8800 and 7800 series
Cisco released security updates to address vulnerabilities in its IP Phone 7800 and 8800 series that could be exploited by remote, unauthenticated attackers. Cisco released security patches to address vulnerabilities in its IP Phone 7800 and 8800 series that could be exploited by remote, unauthenticated attackers. Cisco IP Phone 8800 […]
Aluminum producer switches to manual operations after ransomware infection
Norsk Hydro, one of the world’s largest aluminium producers, revealed today that it « became victim of an extensive cyber-attack » that crippled some of its infrastructure and forced it to switch to manual operations in some smelting locations. The cyber-attack was later identified as an infection with the LockerGoga ransomware strain, […]
A new rash of highly covert card-skimming malware infects ecommerce sites
The rash of e-commerce sites infected with card-skimming malware is showing no signs of abating. Researchers on Thursday revealed that seven sites—with more than 500,000 collective visitors per month—have been compromised with a previously unseen strain of sniffing malware designed to surreptitiously swoop in and steal payment card data as […]
PuTTY Releases Important Software Update to Patch 8 High-Severity Flaws
The popular SSH client program PuTTY has released the latest version of its software that includes security patches for 8 high-severity security vulnerabilities. PuTTY is one of the most popular and widely used open-source client-side programs that allows users to remotely access computers over SSH, Telnet, and Rlogin network protocols. […]
Les Etats-Unis s’agacent de la taxe française sur les géants du Web
Législation : Les Etats-Unis ? Ils soutiennent le projet français de taxation des géants du numérique, assurait le ministre des finances lors de la présentation d’une taxe de 3%. C’était aller un peu vite en besogne. Le pays menace à présent de saisir l’OMC. Une taxe de 3% sur le chiffre […]
Unprotected Elasticsearch DB exposed 33 Million job profiles in China
Security expert discovered an unprotected Elasticsearch database exposed online that was containing approximately 33 million job profiles in China. Security expert Sanyam Jain at GDI Foundation has discovered an unprotected database exposed online that was containing approximately 33 million profiles for people in China who provided their resume to job recruitment sites. […]
Google took down 2.3 billion bad ads in 2018,including 58.8M phishing ads
Google recently shared details about its efforts against malicious advertisement, the giant took down 2.3 billion bad ads last year. Google revealed that it took down 2.3 billion bad ads in 2018, including 58.8 million phishing ads for violation of its policies. Google introduced 31 new ads policies in 2018, […]
Experts published details of the actively exploited CVE-2019-0808 Windows Flaw
Experts from Qihoo 360 disclosed technical details of the actively exploited Windows zero-day flaw CVE-2019-0808 recently patched by Microsoft. Researchers at the security firm Qihoo 360 disclosed technical details of the zero-day vulnerability CVE-2019-0808 that was recently patched by Microsoft. The vulnerability was reported to Microsoft by researchers from Google’s Threat Analysis […]