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Australia Post has seen around 300 cyber incidents so far this year, but it said none were enough to cause the government-owned entity to suffer the same fate as the likes of Toll. Addressing the Joint Committee on Public Accounts and Audit on Tuesday, Australia Post chief information security officer Glenn Stuttard said from January […] More
A team of academics from Israel has disclosed today details about NXNSAttack, a vulnerability in DNS servers that can be abused to launch DDoS attacks of massive proportions. According to the research team, NXNSAttack impacts recursive DNS servers and the process of DNS delegation. Recursive DNS servers are DNS systems that pass DNS queries upstream […] More
The Ukrainian Secret Service (SSU) announced today the arrest of a hacker known as Sanix, responsible for selling billions of hacked credentials on hacking forums and Telegram channels. The SSU says it arrested Sanix in Ivano-Frankivsk, a city in western Ukraine. Authorities did not release the hacker’s name. Sanix has a long history on underground […] More
A new Trojan has been caught targeting Thai users of Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger, and Line messaging apps on the Android mobile platform. On Tuesday, Cisco Talos researchers said the malware, dubbed WolfRAT, is a new variant of DenDroid, a mobile Remote Access Trojan (RAT) that had its source code leaked in 2015. At the time, […] More
Google has released today version 83 of its Chrome web browser, one of the most feature-packed Chrome updates released since the browser’s initial launch back in 2009. Today’s v83 release includes a slew of new features. These include enhanced privacy controls, new settings for managing cookie files, a new Safety Check option, support for tab […] More
Organizations open up to cloud IT. Photo: Tom Foremski A report on DevOps security has found that only 4% of issues found in production are dealt with because of the increased complexity of cloud based IT systems is creating new security gaps. The State of DevSecOps report was commissioned by Accurics — which specializes in addressing IT security […] More
UK budget airline easyJet has disclosed a massive data breach affecting nine million of its customers and involving over 2,000 credit-card details. EasyJet today said it has been the target of a “highly sophisticated” attacker, which gained access to nine million customers’ email addresses and travel details. The company said 2,208 credit-card details were accessed […] More
Image: QNAP A Taiwanese security researcher published details today about three vulnerabilities in the firmware of QNAP network-attached storage (NAS) devices. Henry Huang, the security researcher, said the bugs reside in Photo Station, a photo album app that comes preinstalled with all recent versions of QNAP NAS systems. Huang says the Photo Station app is […] More
