Breaking from my usual theme of one day, one story, here are a few quick notes for you to ponder over the weekend. In a story that no one saw coming, Adobe is going to patch a critical zero day flaw, being exploited in the wild. Next Week. In fairness to Adobe, they do have […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]ITEM 1: As I wrote about a couple of weeks ago, Appalachian Regional Healthcare was attacked with some form of malware, forcing them to shut down every single computer in every hospital that they run. Finally, after twenty days, the hospital chain says that things are back to normal. Appalachian says that they do not […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Carbonite: Carbonite sent out an email to all customers to reset their passwords. They claim that they have not been hacked but that they are seeing a large number of attempts to log in by third parties. They say that based on their security review, they have no evidence that they have been hacked. If […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I don’t normally publish posts on individual software updates, but Flash is such a mess and such a security swamp that I feel compelled to do that. Microsoft’s attempt to copy Flash – Silverlight – is even worse. It is so bad that Google doesn’t support it inside Chrome. My recommendation is that you uninstall […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Back in 2012, LinkedIn told its users that it had been hacked – to the tune of 6.5 million users. Well, it turns out, that was a tad bit shy of the truth. It turns out that the real number was 117 million email and password combinations. – roughly 18 times the number that they […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Oracle has a love-hate relationship with security researchers. Actually, mostly hate. Given that Oracle finds enough of it’s own bugs – it released 193 patches in it’s July patch fest – maybe it doesn’t want people to find any more bugs. This all started when Oracle Chief Security Officer Mary Ann Davidson wrote a rather […]
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