By Landon Lewis, CEO, Pondurance Although artificial intelligence (AI) has been around for more than half a century, the advancements and hype surrounding the technology over the past couple of decades have led to much discussion and confusion about whether machines will someday replace humans in the workforce. A quick Google search reveals stories about…
By Josh Wyatt, global executive services director, Optiv Security When we think about securing the internet of things (IoT), the conversation usually turns to the sensational – ranging from industrial controllers being compromised to bring down critical infrastructure, to automobile cruise control systems being hacked, to last year’s “holiday nightmare” security story where researchers found…
An unprotected Elasticsearch database exposed at least four million “opportunity applications” for internships at AIESEC, billed as “the world’s largest youth-run organization” with more than 100,000 members in 127 countries. SecurityDiscovery.com researcher Bob Diachenko of SecurityDiscovery.com, found the information, which included email addresses, full names, birth dates and gender as well as an in-depth description of…
Websites offering cracked versions of popular software programs have recently been serving up adware bundles that secretly deliver a variant of STOP ransomware. According to a pair of reports from Bleeping Computer founder Lawrence Abrams, the scheme came to light in December 2018 with the appearance of the malicious encryptor “Djvu” – so named because…
Swiss non-profit threat sharing, Abuse.ch, announced its platform has managed to takedown 100,000 malware distribution sites in 10 months in a recent project which consisted of sharing malicious URL used for distribution. Abuse.ch’s URLhaus project was launched last year to collect malicious URLs by allowing anyone to sign up with a Twitter account to report…
An unknown number of online gamblers lost more than a few bucks when several unnamed online casinos left an Elasticsearch database open exposing the details of 108 million bets. Justin Paine, director of trust and safety at Cloudflare, posted the finding on his Twitter page, noting that these instances are now so common that he…
Adobe today announced security updates for its vulnerabilities in its Experience Manager product that could result in sensitive information disclosure. The updates address a Moderate rated reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability and an Important rated stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in Adobe Experience Manager version 6.0 through version 6.4 across all platforms, according to a Jan. 22…
Cisco has revealed a critical-rated vulnerability in its small business switches software that if exploited can allow a remote attacker to bypass the device’s user authentication mechanism. The vulnerability in version 1.4.9.04 of the Cisco software exists because under specific circumstances, the affected software enables a privileged user account without notifying administrators of the system.…
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and ACLU of Massachusetts are demanding the Justice Department reveal how the FBI and other federal law enforcement agencies are using facial recognition technology. The rights organization has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to compel the department about the use of the technology “and what safeguards,…
French regulators hit Google with a $57 million fine for violating GDPR rules that took effect last May by being less than upfront about how user data is collected and used. French data privacy agency CNIL levied the fine, the first against a U.S. company since GDPR took effect last spring, noting that Google “Essential…
