Twitter breach: ‘approximately 235 million email addresses leaked’
A leaked database of more than 235 million Twitter user e-mail addresses has been published online.
Alon Gal, CTO of security firm HudsonRock, shared the news in a post on LinkedIn. Gal reports that a major Twitter database has been publicly leaked after circulating for some time.
Accordin... Read more
Fraudsters use 42,000 fake websites to push adware and ads
Fraud group 'Fangxiao' built a network of 42,000 sites that impersonate well-known businesses.
The network was designed to steer victims to websites pushing adware. Fangxiao uses fake domains to generate website traffic and advertising revenue for its own websites and the websites of customers w... Read more
Forget Ransomware, the next big threat is “killware”
The U.S. Homeland Security Secretary says cyber attacks are increasingly posing risks to "public health and safety".
Alejandro Mayorkas, the current Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, sat down for an interview with USA TODAY's Editorial Board last week. What he had to say ab... Read more
Another Bluetooth flaw has been discovered in the BLE software stack
Researchers at Purdue University revealed details about a new vulnerability in the Bluetooth wireless standard that could potentially expose billions of devices to attackers. The new vulnerability has been named Bluetooth Low Energy Spoofing Attack or BLESA for short.
The vulnerability is a ris... Read more
Millions of websites vulnerable due to zero-day in WordPress plugin
WordPress is under fire after hackers discovered a vulnerability in the popular plugin 'File Manager.' Millions of WordPress sites have been probed to find the weakness and exploit it this past week. According to Defiant, the company behind the Wordfence web firewall, the sites attacked could be mo... Read more
Dutch, Belgium and French providers target of DDOS attacks
A number of providers in the Netherlands, Belgium and France have stated that they were under fire last week from targeted DDoS attacks. Among them are Delta, Online.nl, FreedomNet and Tweak.nl.
The NBIP informed ZDNet that the attacks took place at the end of August and that several providers w... Read more
Microsoft updates Azure AD for users to manage their account security
Azure Active Directory My Sign-Ins is a new feature from Microsoft that reviews and reports unusual behavior based on the sign-in history of enterprise users. The feature allows users to detect any attempts of signing in by guessing the password.
The user will also be able to see whether the att... Read more