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Tag Archives: Security threats
US and UK call out Russian hackers for Georgia attacks
The US and UK governments have both accused Russia of launching a cyber attack against the Georgian government last year.
Data of 10.6m MGM hotel guests posted for sale on Dark Web forum
The data dump apparently included PII for Justin Bieber and Jack Dorsey.
Adobe fixes critical flaws in Media Encoder and After Effects
After fixing a pile of critical security flaws as part of last week’s Patch Tuesday, Adobe has raised two more needing urgent attention.
Ransomware attack forces 2-day shutdown of natural gas pipeline
The attacker(s) infected both IT and operational networks with an unspecified ransomware strain, though the facility never lost control.
Nearly half of hospital Windows systems still vulnerable to RDP bugs
Almost half of connected hospital devices are still exposed to the wormable BlueKeep Windows flaw nearly a year after it was announced, according to a report released this week.
Firefox 73.0.1 fixes crashes, blank web pages and DRM niggles
Firefox version 73 has only been out for a week but already Mozilla has had to update it to v73.0.1 to fix a range of browser problems.
Ring makes 2FA mandatory to keep hackers out of your doorbell account
Amazon is following Google’s lead by forcing all users to use two-factor authentication when logging into their Ring accounts.
Private photos leaked by PhotoSquared’s unsecured cloud storage
With no password required and no encryption in place, a burglar or ID thief could have seen your photos, your address and more.
WordPress plugin hole could have allowed attackers to wipe websites
A WordPress plugin with over 100,000 active installations had a bug that could have allowed unauthorised attackers to wipe its users’ blogs clean, it emerged this week.