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WordPress shopping sites under attack

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WordPress-based shopping sites are under attack from a hacker group abusing a vulnerability in a shopping cart plugin to plant backdoors and take over vulnerable sites.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 12, 2019

Marriott CEO shares post-mortem on last year's hack

Marriott International CEO Arne Sorenson testified in front of a US Senate subcommittee yesterday, revealing new details about a security breach the hotel chain disclosed last year.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 09, 2019

Ransomware attack on Israeli users fails miserably due to coding error

Hackers launched a failed cyber-attack on Saturday in an attempt to infect millions of Israeli users with ransomware.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 05, 2019

WordPress accounted for 90 percent of all hacked CMS sites in 2018

Roughly 90 percent of all the hacked content management systems (CMSs) Sucuri investigated and helped fix in 2018 were WordPress sites. In a distant second, third, and fourth came Magento (4.6 percent), Joomla (4.3 percent), and Drupal (3.7 percent), according to a report the company published yesterday.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 05, 2019

Hackers have started attacks on Cisco RV110, RV130, and RV215 routers

Two days after Cisco patched a severe vulnerability in a popular brand of SOHO routers, and one day after the publication of proof-of-concept code, hackers have started scans and attacks exploiting the said security bug to take over unpatched devices.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 03, 2019

Wendy’s to pay $50M in data breach settlement

Wendy’shas agreed to pay $50 million to settle negligence claims following its 2015-2016 data breach that affected more than 1,000 of the burger chain’s locations.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 26, 2019

POS firm says hackers planted malware on customer networks

North Country Business Products (NCBP), a Minnesota-based provider of point-of-sale (POS) products, announced a security breach last week. The company said hackers compromised its IT system and later planted POS malware on the network of some of its customers.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 20, 2019

LandMark White data breach could impact Westpac property service customers

Westpac Group has warned customers that those who have conducted a property valuation through its business may have been inadvertently impacted by a separate data breach affecting LandMark White.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 19, 2019

Millions Affected by 500px Data Breach

Online photography network 500px has forced a password reset for all users after revealing this week that it suffered a data breach last summer.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 13, 2019

Hackers wipe US servers of email provider VFEmail

Hackers have breached the severs of email provider VFEmail.net and wiped the data from all its US servers, destroying all US customers' data in the process.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 12, 2019

OkCupid Denies Data Breach Amid Account Hack Complaints

Dating is tough as it is, but some OkCupid users are reporting a new kind of challenge: Hackers are breaking into accounts, changing their email addresses and passwords, and locking them out. However, the dating website states it has not been affected by a security breach.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 12, 2019

MongoDB databases still being held for ransom, two years after attacks started

Two years after hacker groups began ransacking MongoDB databases and requesting ransom payments, the practice is still very much alive, ZDNet has learned this week.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 08, 2019

Report: Chinese cyberspies hacked MSP, retailer and law firm in economic espionage campaign

The Chinese state-sponsored threat actorAPT10used stolen remote access software credentials to infiltrate the network of Norwegian managed services provider Visma last year, likely in an effort to launch secondary attacks against the MSP’s clients.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 07, 2019

Huddle House restaurant chain announces breach of POS system

US-based casual dining and fast food restaurant chain Huddle House announced late Friday last week a security breach that impacted its point of sale (POS) system.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 05, 2019

Security firm identifies hacker behind Collection 1 leak, as Collection 2-5 become public

The threat intel team at Recorded Future, a US-based cyber-security firm, claims to have identified the hacker who assembled and then sold a massive collection of email addresses and passwords known as Collection #1.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 04, 2019

Websites can steal browser data via extensions APIs

Malicious websites can exploit browser extension APIs to execute code inside the browser and steal sensitive information such as bookmarks, browsing history, and even user cookies.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 20, 2019

North Korean Hackers Get Access To Chile’s ATM After Employee Falls For Fake Job Interview Over Skyp

North Korean hackers fooled a Redbanc employee into a fake job interview over Skype and then tricked him into downloading malware onto his work computer to get access to the company’s interbank network, according to a report by Chilean news site trendTIC.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 18, 2019

15+ Password Cracking Techniques Used By Hackers 2019

Putting up a good and long password is advised by cybersecurity, however, cybersecurity doesn’t teach us how to identify the hacker hacking into your computer. It doesn’t matter how strong you are creating passwords, there is always be an option for hackers to crack your passwords.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 17, 2019

Firms fined $1M for SingHealth data security breach

Singapore Health Services (SingHealth) has been fined S$250,000 while Integrated Health Information Systems (IHIS), the IT agency responsible for Singapore's public healthcare sector, is slapped with a S$750,000 fine, for failing to take adequate security measures to safeguard personal data. The oversight had contributed to the July 2018 cybersecurity attack that compromised personal details of 1.5 million SingHealth patients, and breached their data protection obligations outlined in Singapore's Personal Data Protection Act.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 15, 2019

Brit hacker hired by Liberian telco to nobble rival now behind bars

A Surrey man has been jailed for 32 months after admitting to launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against an African telco.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 14, 2019

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