Coral Glades High School, part of Broward County Public Schools. The $40 million ransomware attack on the district was one of a wave of cases targeting educational institutions over the last couple of weeks. (Formulanone, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons) The Conti ransomware gang encrypted the systems at Broward County Public Schools several weeks ago and threatened to…
Roger Grimes of KnowBe4 maintains that antivirus and firewalls are worthless, noting that after 30 years the industry faces more threats than ever. Grimes believes that most people pay attention to firewall logs when they first enter the security field, but after the first few years they become background noise.
Cyentia Institute found that firms that bungle the incident response process show costs that are nearly 2.8 times larger than those without signs of poor response.
A misconfiguration in an S3 bucket that was hosting a Twilio Javascript library caused a bad threat actor to inject code that made Twilio users load an extraneous URL on their browsers that has been associated with the Magecart group of attacks. In a company blog, Twilio said this solely affected v1.20 of the TaskRouter JS…
An Android application that controls a drone manufactured by China-based Da Jiang Innovations (DJI) contains a self-update feature that bypasses the Google Play Store, thus creating the ability for the app to transmit sensitive personal information to DJI’s servers or possibly the Chinese government. The DJI GO 4 Android app has been designed for use…
Though they might get lost in all the other security threats exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic, DDoS attacks, unsurprisingly, ticked up during the first part of 2020, most handily absorbed by the internet backbone – and the defensive efforts of targeted companies. Disruptions at AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon and streaming companies in mid-June stoked…
Security researchers found flaws in a smart tracker that was aimed at the elderly, especially those with dementia or other cognitive issues. In research released late this week, Pen Test Partners found flaws in source code that the manufacturer posted publicly. Most of the watches use SETracker as a backend, an app owned by the…
Citrix, Juniper and VMware issued a bevy of patches this week. For starters, the Citrix Security Bulletin CTX276688 addressed vulnerabilities in Citrix ADC (formerly known as NetScaler ADC), Citrix Gateway (formerly known as NetScaler Gateway), and Citrix SD-WAN WANOP appliance. According to CISA, a remote attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control…
A CyCognito research team conducting routine reconnaissance on a customer’s network found a cross-site scripting zero day (XSS) vulnerability on the web admin interface of two different small business Cisco routers. The finding was released in a blog that went live earlier today. Alex Zaslavsky, CyCognito’s head of security research, said they reported the flaw…
A hacker that uploaded ransom notes on nearly 23,000 MongoDB databases left exposed online without passwords has given his potential victims until tomorrow to pay a $140 ransom, or possibly report the breach to local GDPR authorities. According to recent ZDNet story, the hacker used an automated script to scan for misconfigured MongoDB databases, effectively…
