Credit to Author: Naked Security writer| Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 22:37:15 +0000
Twitter founder and CEO Jack Dorsey’s Twitter account was compromised.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/vEvUc0ZSkTM” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2019 12:00:00 +0000
Attacking Iran, a web host data breach, and more of the week’s top security news.
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Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 21:56:41 +0000
Like so many Twitter attacks lately, it was a SIM swap.
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Credit to Author: Alex Baker-Whitcomb| Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 21:03:34 +0000
Catch up on the most important news from today in two minutes or less.
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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 10:27:00 -0700
What happens when Microsoft releases eight – count ‘em, eight – concurrent beta test versions of Win10 version 1909 without fixing bugs introduced into 1903 on Patch Tuesday?
Pan. De. Moaaan. Ium.
No doubt, you recall the first wave of pain inflicted by the August 2019 patching regimen. Microsoft somehow managed to mess up Visual Basic (an old custom programming language), Visual Basic for Applications (for Office macros) and VBScript (a largely forgotten language primarily used inside Internet Explorer). Folks running applications in any of those languages would, on occasion, receive “invalid procedure call error” messages when using apps that had been working for decades.
Credit to Author: Thomas Reed| Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 17:40:24 +0000
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| Google announced late last night that hacked websites have been used to drop iPhone malware on unsuspecting users over a two-year period. Thomas Reed investigates. Categories: Tags: AppleiOSios infectionios malwareiPhoneiphone malwaremacmalware infectiontridentzero dayzero-day vulnerability |
The post Unprecedented new iPhone malware discovered appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 16:21:59 +0000
Many companies are now outsourcing their marketing efforts to cloud-based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) providers. But when accounts at those CRM providers get hacked or phished, the results can be damaging for both the client’s brand and their customers. Here’s a look at a recent CRM-based phishing campaign that targeted customers of Fortune 500 construction equipment vendor United Rentals.
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Credit to Author: SophosLabs Offensive Security| Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 16:28:14 +0000
Among the 94 vulnerabilities fixed this month by Microsoft, 29 are rated as Critical. Most importantly, the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) and its associated service (RDS) collect a total of 6 CVEs, which seems to show a renewed interest in the RDP protocol by vulnerability researchers; two of those classified as wormable (CVE-2019-1181 and CVE-2019-1182) […]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/1hDq4cmGQ80″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
Read moreCredit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 16:16:00 +0000
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| The Heartbleed vulnerability was discovered and fixed in 2014, yet today—five years later—there are still unpatched systems. Categories: Tags: cryptographyEKsexploit kitsexploitsheartbeat extensionheartbleedheartbleed vulnerabilityITIT teamsopen sourceOpenSSLSSLTSL |
The post Everything you need to know about the Heartbleed vulnerability appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
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Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 14:54:08 +0000
Compromised iPhones were turned into surveillance tools capable of recording the owner’s entire digital life.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/JJ6DBKwnpaM” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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