The Green Sheet Numerous consumers who used credit cards at Midwest and Northeast locations of The Wendy’s Co. in the latter part of 2015 were notified by their card issuing banks of a potential data security breach. Company spokesman Bob Bertini advised news media that fraudulent charges began to appear...
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Was Hollywood Presbyterian ransom attack preventable?
MedCity News The hackers who brought down the computer network and connected medical devices at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles have taken healthcare cyberattacks to the next level, according to a maker of network security technology. The hackers are demanding a ransom of 9,000 Bitcoin, equivalent to about...
Phony CloudFlare DDoS page redirects victims to Nuclear EK
SC Magazine CloudFlare DDoS check page as a Nuclear exploit kit (EK) gate to load a malicious redirection that ultimately triggers the EK, Malwarebytes Security Researcher Jerome Segura said in a blog post, “Upon further check, the server’s IP address is clearly visible and does not belong to CloudFlare at...
Building a better defense – tech, people, process
Track: Technical Author: Vann Abernethy, Field CTO, NSFOCUS When thinking about how to best to protect an environment, most non-security people tend to focus on the latest whiz-bang tools and threats that get mainstream media attention. Truly effective security, however, starts with understanding the environment that you are protecting, and wrapping...
Massive Brute-Force Attack on Alibaba Affects Millions
InfoSecurity Up to 21 million accounts on Alibaba e-commerce site TaoBao may have been compromised thanks to a massive brute-force attack. Dave Martin, our security expert and director said that some of the accounts were compromised because of overlapping passwords but there were likely many accounts stolen due to weak...
Utilities Lack Visibility to Prevent All Attacks, Research Shows
eWeek As reports of attacks against energy utilities emerge, there is some evidence that they aren’t properly secured, two separate studies show. NSFOCUS report analyzed that the malware which has been implicated in the Ukraine outage shows that the attack didn’t necessarily use an exotic zero-day vulnerability. The report concludes...
