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Ransomware attacks paralyze, and sometimes crush, hospitals

October 3, 2019 0 Comments data loss, health care, hospitals, malware, medical records, ransom attacks, Ransomware, security threats

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 10:46:08 +0000

New attacks on the perennially besieged sector have crippled hospitals in the US and Australia and caused one health clinic to shut down.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/D-Zw_aOxTlU” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Exim suffers another ‘critical’ remote code execution flaw

October 2, 2019 0 Comments critical flaw, cve-2019-16928, CVEs, email server, Exim, rce, remote code execution, security threats, vulnerability

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2019 12:28:02 +0000

This latest Exim flaw could lead to at least a denial of service crash in the software but also the possibility of remote code execution.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/MxuCX_Qs0nA” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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O.MG! Evil Lightning cable about to hit mass distribution

October 2, 2019 0 Comments Apple, apple lightening cable, hak5, iOS, lightening cable, lightening charger, lockscream, mac, malware, NSA, o.mg, Operating Systems, Organisations, OS X, security threats

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2019 12:27:19 +0000

This malicious O.MG Lightning cable has come a long way, with extensive work on the kinds of payload it can deliver.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/P7a9UkBNKp0″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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218 million Words With Friends players lose data to hackers

October 2, 2019 0 Comments breach, data breach, data loss, draw something, gnosticplayers, hashing, omgpop, online games, passwords, Privacy, salt, salting, security threats, sha-1, sha1, words with friends, zynga

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2019 12:20:10 +0000

The serial hacker GnosticPlayers is claiming to have ransacked Zynga’s user data – including names, emails and passwords.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/5iXJ4_o_gJ4″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Ex-Yahoo engineer pleads guilty to hacking 6,000 accounts

October 2, 2019 0 Comments dropbox, facebook, gmail, Hacking, icloud, Law & order, lechery, nudes, Privacy, reyes daniel ruiz, security threats, software engineer, yahoo

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2019 10:41:17 +0000

Reyes Daniel Ruiz went after younger women’s accounts, including those of his personal friends and work colleagues, he admitted.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/aH0yMJKQHEU” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Hacking 2020 voting systems is a ‘piece of cake’

October 1, 2019 0 Comments 2020 election, default passwords, Defcon, election systems, election tampering, elections, Government security, matt blaze, poor encryption, security threats, voting machines, voting village, vulnerability

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 11:31:59 +0000

That’s how Senator Wyden described the results of DefCon’s Voting Village, where all of 100 voting systems were easily picked apart by hackers.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/buAZK9dzyQA” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Outlook on the web bans a further 38 file types

September 30, 2019 0 Comments .ace files, block list, cve-2018-20250, email attachments, file extension, malware, Microsoft, microsoft outlook, outlook, outlook for the web, security threats

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 11:56:21 +0000

Outlook on the web bans a further 38 file types<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/9PAQW38fA1c” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Match knowingly puts people at risk from scammers, FTC charges

September 27, 2019 0 Comments confidence scams, data loss, fake profiles, fraud, FTC, Law & order, lawsuit, match.com, okcupid, online dating, phishing, plenty of fish, Romance Scams, security threats, Social networks, tinder

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 10:37:48 +0000

Match.com allegedly put users on its free version at risk – by not filtering out communications that it knew were from fake accounts.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/qoySkY_s2X8″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Hackers are infecting WordPress sites via a defunct plug-in

September 26, 2019 0 Comments automattic, github, malware, nuanced media, plug-ins, rich reviews, rich reviews plug-in, security threats, wordfence, Wordpress

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 10:37:03 +0000

If you’re a Wordpress admin using a plug-in called Rich Reviews, you’ll want to uninstall it. Now.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/qE8j8GEJrAI” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Russian pleads guilty in massive JPMorgan hacking scheme

September 26, 2019 0 Comments andrei tyurin, breach, cyberattacks, data loss, gery shalon, guilty plea, Hacking, joshua samuel aaron, jpmorgan, Law & order, pump and dump, russia, securities fraud, security threats, ziv orenstein

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 10:27:06 +0000

Andrei Tyurin is the first to be convicted in one of the largest thefts of customer data from a single US financial institution in history.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/tqRY012oxXA” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>