Facebook has been fined £500,000 ($664,000) in the U.K. for its conduct in the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal. Facebook has been fined £500,000 in the U.K., the maximum fine allowed by the UK’s Data Protection Act 1998, for failing to protect users’ personal information. Political consultancy firm Cambridge Analytica improperly collected data of 87 […]
WORDPRESS CORRIGE UNE VULNÉRABILITÉ JOUR ZÉRO DANS SON CMS
Une vulnérabilité (0-day) importante a été corrigée à partir de la version 4.9.7 de WordPress. L’exploitation de cette vulnérabilité permettrait à un attaquant authentifié de supprimer des fichiers arbitraires sur le serveur, et d’exécuter du code arbitraire. Un utilisateur ayant des privilèges « auteur » ou supérieurs, pourrait, en supprimant définitivement la vignette d’une image téléversée, […]
Internet Transit Providers Disconnect Infamous « BGP Hijack Factory »
Several Internet transit providers —companies that route global Internet traffic between local ISPs, end users, and data centers— have banded together to ban a fellow transit provider that has carried out at least 130 Internet route (BGP) hijacks in the past few years, most of which, experts say, were with […]
China-based TEMP.Periscope APT targets Cambodia’s elections
FireEye uncovered a large-scale Chinese phishing and hacking campaign powered by Temp.periscope APT aimed at Cambodia’s elections. Security researchers at FireEye have uncovered a large-scale Chinese phishing and hacking campaign aimed at Cambodia’s elections. The hackers distributed a remote access trojan (RAT) and data exfiltration operation targeting the poll. The experts from FireEye attributed the attacks […]
Timehop Data Breach Affects 21million Users’
Timehop, an add-on app that reminisces people’s good old days on different social media platforms, has suffered a data breach on July 4th, that affected 21 million users. The stolen data includes names, email addresses, date of the birth, and over 4.7 million users phone number that they linked to […]
Three Arrests Made in Largest Hack in Lebanon’s History
Beirut officials have arrested three suspects believed to be behind what local authorities are calling the biggest hack in Lebanon’s history. The arrests took place last week and included what police believe to be the main hacker, one of his accomplices, and a local businessman, according to Lebanese daily newspaper Al […]
Access to airport’s security system sold on dark web
Leveraging compromised RDP credentials is one of the easiest ways attackers can break into company networks and systems. Unfortunately for all of us, there are a lot of vendors on underground hacker markets that sell those credentials for a laughably small amount of money. Some of these computers are part […]
Une attaque de la pompe à essence
Des pirates informatiques auraient réussi à prendre le contrôle d’une pompe à essence en s’attaquant au logiciel de qui permet de gérer les pompes de la station. Ils seraient parvenu à modifier le prix des carburants et à bloquer le système d’arrêt de la distribution du carburant. C’est un piratage […]
Intel confirms new Spectre 1.1, 1.2 vulnerabilities
Intel has confirmed the discovery of at least two more side-channel security vulnerabilities relating to the Spectre family of attacks in its processors, paying out a $100,000 bug bounty to the researchers who discovered them. The latest in a string of hardware-baked security vulnerabilities affecting the majority of the processors […]
Adobe July Patch Tuesday fixes over 100 flaws in Adobe Acrobat and Reader
Adobe released July Patch Tuesday security updates that address over 100 flaws in Acrobat and Reader, and other issues in Flash Player, Experience Manager, and Connect. Adobe on Tuesday has released July Patch Tuesday security updates that addressed more than 100 flaws in its products, including 105 vulnerabilities in Acrobat and Reader, […]