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A serious hardware vulnerability, thought to be confined to UEFI drivers in Lenovo and HP laptops, has also been found in firmware running on motherboards sold by Gigabyte. The flaw was publicly disclosed last week by researcher Dmytro Oleksiuk. No patches are yet available. Related Posts Threatpost News Wrap, June 17, 2016 June 17, 2016...
Ransomware called Zepto is raising concerns with security experts because of its close ties to the more mature and prolific Locky ransomware. Zepto was spotted about a month ago, but a recent wave of spam containing Zepto-laced attachments detected on June 27 is heightening fears of widespread infections. “We are watching Zepto very carefully. It’s...
The Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) cautioned users who work in electrical substations to update certain builds of energy automation software this week. ICS-CERT claims two vulnerabilities exist in the Siemens SICAM Power Automation System, or PAS, that could enable an attacker to reconstruct passwords and obtain sensitive information under certain conditions. Siemens, the German...
LizardStresser, a distributed denial of service botnet, has found new life leveraging hundreds of internet-based webcams in attacks against Brazilian-based banks, government agencies as well as a handful of U.S.-based gaming companies. Researchers at the Arbor’s Security Engineering and Response Team (ASERT) say publicly released source code of the LizardStresser botnet in 2015, by the...
A breach at Massachusetts General Hospital has potentially compromised the information of roughly 4,300 dental patients, the hospital warned Wednesday. MGH was quick to point out that the data leaked wasn’t stored or maintained on its systems but those of a third-party vendor that assists the hospital in managing dental patients at several practices, including...
Foxit patched a dozen vulnerabilities in its PDF reader software this week, more than half of which could allow an attacker to directly execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of the product. The company released version 8.0 of its Foxit Reader and Foxit PhantomPDF on Monday, addressing vulnerabilities in builds 7.3.4.311 and earlier of the...
Internet-connected medical devices such as MRI machines, CT scanners and dialysis pumps are increasingly being targeted by hacker seeking to steal patient medical records from hospitals. Attackers consider the devices soft digital targets, seldom guarded with same security as client PCs and servers within hospitals. In a report by security firm TrapX Labs, researchers found...
The Federal Trade Commission doesn’t investigate every reported breach, but when it comes to prosecuting data security cases it has an impressive 70 percent closure rate, according to agency officials. FTC Commissioner Maureen Ohlhausen shed light on the agency’s approach to enforcing data security in a keynote address for a panel titled Federal Online Data...
If you’re one of the millions who rocked out at Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Las Vegas or slurped noodles at a Noodles & Company fast food chain in the past year, it’s time to get paranoid. Both companies announced this week separate breaches that include unauthorized access to credit card data. The Hard Rock...
The transportation industry is increasingly being targeted by cyber criminals who see the sprawling multi-billion dollar industry as ripe for financially motivated attacks. According to IBM’s X-Force security team, the systems behind planes, trains and automobiles have now become bigger paydays for hackers than industries such as the retail sector – once a favorite of...
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