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Security News Bites For Friday July 6, 2018

NSA Deleting All Call Detail Records (CDRs) Acquired Since 2015 While the NSA is not providing a lot of details about what went wrong, the NSA is saying that it is deleting all CDRs acquired since 2015 because of technical irregularities that resulted in it receiving data that, likely, would be illegal under the current […]

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News Bites for Friday June 22, 2018

Latest Cost Estimates For Equifax Breach is $439 Million According to recent (March) tax filings, costs related to their breach are now $439 million, making the Equifax breach the costliest in US history.  Assuming insurance does pay, it would cover, at most, $125 million, leaving Equifax to write a check for $300  million plus.  Given […]

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Friday News Bites – June 15, 2018

Details Emerge on TicketFly Hack More details are coming out about the TicketFly attack.  First thing is that the web site was based on WordPress.  While WordPress is a very popular site for individuals and small businesses; using it for something as complex as a concert ticketing site is likely a mistake.  Hackers were able […]

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News Bites for Friday June 8, 2018

One Vendor, Two Unprotected Servers Equal Disaster Agilisium, a cloud storage vendor to Universal Music Group, exposed UMG’s internal FTP credentials, AWS Secret Keys and Passwords and the internal and SQL root password to the open internet – all via two instances of the Apache Airflow server with no password. Your Vendor Cyber Risk Management Program […]

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News Bites for Friday June 1

8 new Spectre-Class Vulnerabilities Researchers have reportedly found *8* new Spectre-class vulnerabilties.  Intel has classified 4 of them high risk and 4 of them medium risk, although they are not releasing any details on them – yet.  The entire set is being referred to as Spectre Next Generation or Spectre-NG.  At least one of them […]

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