Attackers use the approach to look like legitimate traffic and hide data exfiltration in plain sight.

Equifax said that an additional 2.4 million Americans have been impacted by a 2017 data breach, bringing the total of those implicated to around 148 million people.

The credit bureau Equifax said Monday the information of 145.5M Americans, was implicated in this summer’s breach.

Oracle released fixes for a handful of recently patched Apache Struts 2 vulnerabilities late last week.

The Equifax data breach saga so far, a Google HTTPS warnings paper, cryptocurrency mining at the Pirate Bay, and bringing machine learning to passwords are all discussed.

The Equifax data breach saga so far, a Google HTTPS warnings paper, cryptocurrency mining at the Pirate Bay, and bringing machine learning to passwords are all discussed.

Equifax suffered another breach of its systems, back in March, the company revealed Monday.

Equifax divulged on Wednesday that the culprit behind this summer’s breach of 143 million Americans was an Apache Struts vulnerability, CVE-2017-5638, patched back in March.

The Vice President of the Apache Struts PMC says the attackers likely used an unknown Struts zero day or an earlier announced vulnerability.

Victims of the massive Equifax breach may have to wait days to find out if they were impacted.