AmazingCo, a company based in Melbourne, Australia had an unprotected Elasticsearch database that contained sensitive details of customers and possible leads. The publicly accessible database was discovered by security researcher Jeremiah Fowler. According to Fowler, a large portion of data was related to children’s entertainment. AmazingCo provides services such asRead More…
Ingram Micro today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire French cyber security VAD Abbakan, as part of the expansion of its cyber security business in Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). The acquisition of Abbakan expands Ingram Micro’s network of system integrators and telecommunications companiesRead More…
Mozilla has patched two crucial vulnerabilities in the latest version of its Firefox 67 browser, which boasts of better speed and privacy. The most important vulnerability that it patched includes memory safety flaws that could allow hackers to take control of an affected system, a security bulletin issued by United StatesRead More…
Tenable, the Cyber Exposure company, today unveiled new innovations to its Cyber Exposure analytics capabilities in Tenable Lumin™. These innovations leverage machine learning to automatically correlate vulnerability and threat data together with asset criticality in a single platform. For the first time, organizations can accurately score, trend and benchmark theirRead More…
The Information Technology Division at the Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT) organized the ‘SAS Data Science Hackathon 2019’ in cooperation with SAS, the leader in business analytics, and several leading public and private entities.Read More…
The latest Windows 10 update from Microsoft flags Wi-Fi networks using outdated and insecure Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) and Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) authentication mechanisms. WEP, which was introduced in 1997, was superseded in 2003 by Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA), which used TKIP to strengthen security. TKIP became lessRead More…
A new variant of the Mirai botnet has been found to use as many as 13 different exploits to target routers and other IoT devices. The malware, called Backdoor.Linux.MIRAI.VWIPT, includes both backdoor and DDoS capabilities. The Mirai variant uses three XOR keys to encrypt data and uses four different URLsRead More…
Spire Solutions has signed a strategic partnership with ThreatGEN, founded in the US by world-renowned industrial cybersecurity experts to address customers’ challenges related to industrial cybersecurity capabilities and improve overall resiliency in the region.Read More…
