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Half of breached firms say they were compromised due to a vulnerability for which a patch was available but not applied.
Mike Mimoso talks to Chris Vickery of Upguard of the recent rash of Amazon S3 data leaks.
Travel services company Sabre Corp. said in a SEC filing that its investigating a data breach in its Hospitality Solutions reservation system.
Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook recap this year’s SOURCE Boston Conference and discuss the week in news, including the long term implications of the NSA’s DoublePulsar exploit, and the HipChat breach.
Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including Pwn2Own 2017, Microsoft’s silence around February’s Patch Tuesday, and a nasty SAP bug.
A Boeing employee inadvertently leaked the personal information of 36,000 of his co-workers late last year when he emailed a company spreadsheet to his non-Boeing spouse.
When hackers infiltrated Dropbox in 2012 they made off with credentials for roughly 68 million users. The fact that the online storage site was hacked four years ago was no secret. But details around the sheer size of the stolen database, which contains users’ email addresses plus hashed and salted passwords from 2012, were unknown until Tuesday,...
Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including the latest on ShadowBrokers and Cisco, the Sweet32 collision attack, decryptors for the Wildfire ransomware, and this week’s gaming forum breaches. Download: Threatpost_News_Wrap_August_26_2016.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves
Linux users who frequent the Ubuntu forums may want to change their passwords following news that an attacker was able to breach the service and its two million users. Jane Silber, Chief Executive Officer at Canonical,the company that maintains the service, acknowledged on Friday that a known SQL injection vulnerability in Forumrunner, an add-on in the Ubuntu...
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...