Category Archives: Cybersecurity
6.8M Facebook Users Private Photos Exposed
The Facebook bug allowed 1,500 apps built by 800+ developers to view unposted private photos. Friday Facebook disclosed that a bug in the platform enabled third-party apps to access unpublished photos of millions of users. When your writing a new post and upload a photo but do not finish posting it Facebook will store it…
Mac Malware Injects Ads Into Encrypted Traffic
A newly discovered malware infection targeting macOS devices. Malwarebytes security researchers say it has the ability of injecting ads into encrypted web traffic. This malware is call OSX.SearchAwesome, the malware is delivered by a malicious installer that arrives as an app downloaded using a torrent file. The malware installer looks like a disk image file but doesn’t have…
Marriott Data Breach hits 500 million Starwood Guests
Marriott Data Breach hits 500 million Starwood guests. It was said that during the investigation, there had been unauthorized access to the Starwood network since 2014. The information copied from the Starwood guest database over all this time were names, mailing addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, passport numbers, Starwood Preferred Guest (“SPG”) account information, dates…
Attempted Breach on DELL EMC Network
There was an attempted breach on DELL EMC customers using Dell.com. The company has been stressing customers to change their passwords. Dell cybersecurity teams are still not sure on how hackers got access to the information on the website. They are not sure if it was due to vulnerabilities or other causes. But it was…
Hackers Breach Dunkin’ Donuts Accounts
Tuesday Dunkin’ Donuts posted an advisory on the website regarding to its credential stuffing attack on the companies data. What does This Credential Stuffing mean? Credential stuffing is a term related to a specific type of hacking that secures user credentials by breaching a system, and then attempts to use those credentials with other systems. Like other kinds of…
Microsoft Warns of Apps Exposing Private Keys
On Tuesday Microsoft notified users that digital certificates have been compromised for two apps which allowed someone to remotely spoof websites and content. The issue was that the certificate and private key were the same for anyone who installed these two applications. Which allowed a hacker to decrypt the software’s private key which compromised the…
Octobers HealthCare.gov Data Breach Exposed Individuals Personal Information
Octobers HealthCare.gov Data Breach Exposed Individuals Personal Information. The details that were surfaced about the data breach said that around 75,000 consumers were effected. Letters were sent out to affected people from the Centers for medicare and Medicaid Services and it said that the sensitive data exposed may have included Social Security numbers and a…
Maintaining Security with Internet of Things
Our lives have been taken over with many many WiFi enabled capable devices. The internet of things (IoT) has quite a flaw which is security. Many vendors lax on providing security updates to their software that are used in smartphones, tablets, PC’s , Game Consoles , TV’s , your Fridge and many other devices. This…
Skype For Business brought down by the Kitten of Doom Emoji Attack
Crash Skype for Business by sending a large number of emojis 800+ kittens in one message and the client freezes the program for a few seconds. This can be exploited to perform Denial of Service attacks against Skype for Business users and compromises the availability of the program. How would an attacker go about performing…
Ransomware saw massive growth year after year.
New reports on not just ransomware but all malware saw massive growth year after year. From SonicWall the cyber-security company detected 45 percent growth of malware infections towards desktops. SoncWall spotted 300,000 new attack variants so far this year. SonicWall’s recently announced Capture Cloud Platform is designed to counter these rising threats. SonicWall Capture Threat…