Security experts from Netscout Asert discovered more than ten Mirai bot variants attempting to exploit a recently disclosed flaw in Hadoop YARN on Intel servers. These Mirai variants are the first one that doesn't target Internet of Things devices,...
US Postal Service has patched a critical bug that allowed anyone who has an account at usps.com to view and modify account details for other users US Postal Service has patched a critical bug that allowed anyone who has an account at usps.com to...
Facebook updates its bug bounty program, it is increasing the overall rewards for security flaws that could be exploited to take over accounts. Facebook announced an important novelty for its bug bounty, the social media giant is going to pay out as much...
Many readers of the Register shared with the media outlet an email sent from the Amazon UK branch that is notifying them an accidental data leak. The news is disconcerting, Amazon has suffered a data breach a few days before Black Friday Many readers...
Security experts have found several vulnerabilities affecting Dell EMC Avamar and Integrated Data Protection Appliance products. They also warn that VMware’s vSphere Data Protection, which is based on Avamar, is also affected by the issues. Dell EMC released...
Sofacy APT group (aka APT28, Pawn Storm, Fancy Bear, Sednit, Tsar Team, and Strontium) has a new weapon in its arsenal dubbed Cannon. The Russia-linked APT group delivers Cannon in a spear-phishing attack that targets government organizations...
Hackers targeted Drupal web servers chaining some known vulnerabilities, including Drupalgeddon2 and DirtyCOW issues. Security experts at Imperva reported an attack against Drupal Web servers running on Linux-based systems. Hackers exploited the Drupalgeddon2...
Two men from Tamworth, Staffordshire were sentenced to prison for their roles in the 2015 TalkTalk hack. Two men, Connor Allsopp, 21, and Matthew Hanley, 23, pleaded guilty to charges of hacking. Allsopp has been sentenced to 8 months in jail and Hanley...
Security researchers at F-Secure have recently uncovered a small spam campaign aimed at delivering spyware to Mac users that use Exodus wallet. Security experts at F-Secure have recently spotted a small spam campaign aimed at Mac users that use Exodus...
TP-Link has addressed several vulnerabilities, including a remote code execution flaw, in its TL-R600VPN small and home office (SOHO) router. TP-Link as fixed four security vulnerabilities in the TL-R600VPN small and home office (SOHO) router that...