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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...
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...
A hacker selling upwards to 655,000 healthcare records on the dark web allegedly obtained them after exploiting a vulnerability in how companies implement remote desktop protocol, or RDP, functionality. The hacker, who goes by the handle “thedarkoverlord,” allegedly penetrated three healthcare organizations and made off with a database from each, according to Deep Dot Web, who...
Github is forcing a password reset on some of its users after it detected a number of successful intrusions into its repositories using credentials compromised in other breaches. “This appears to be the result of an attacker using lists of email addresses and passwords from other online services that have been compromised in the past,...
Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss news from the week, including how the recent data breaches have fed off password reuse, how a Canadian university paid $20K CDN following a ransomware attack, a scan that showed a lack of secured services on the internet, and more. Download: Threatpost_News_Wrap_June_9_2016.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves
News of yet another years-old social media site hack surfaced over the weekend when it was learned that hackers infiltrated the European social network VK.com at some point over the last several years and made off with credentials for 100 million of its users. Breach notification site LeakedSource touted the breach on Sunday, claiming it was selling...
Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including the back and forth around whether or not TeamViewer was hacked, the fallout around the years-old MySpace and Tumblr breaches, and a 90K Windows zero day.
Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including the LinkedIn breach, TeslaCrypt closing up shop, and a breakthrough in random number generation. The two also recap this week’s Source conference in Boston. Download: Threatpost_News_Wrap_May_20_2016.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves
PwnedList, an online service that allows subscribers to monitor whether their credentials have been leaked in data breaches, said on Thursday that its decision to shut down has nothing to do with a serious vulnerability that exposed its collection of 866 million compromised credentials. “The site was scheduled for decommission a while back. Due to...