The company released a patch for the 20-year-old product within 72 hours to the less than 50 customers that had been affected. In early February, Accellion stated it had notified all affected FTA cust…
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IOTW: Microsoft Exchange, The FBI & A Lack Of Patching
The operative words now are “discovery” and “remediation.” While the FBI’s efforts are arguably necessary, organizations cannot rely on the agency for their safety. In addition to gaining remote contr…
IOTW: Facebook Data Leak Impacts 533 Million Users
Facebook has no plans to notify individuals whose information was exposed because the company claims it does not know who was affected. Despite the patch in September 2019, 419 million records contain…
IOTW: Hackers Prove Modern-Day Security Firm Is Anything But
The breach highlights the irony of a security company leveling-up the industry by going hi-tech, utilizing IoT and ML technologies doing anything but, by losing 150,000 of its live-feed security camer…
IOTW: A Massive Zero-Day Attack On Microsoft Exchange Users
It appears that a number of other state-sponsored and rogue hacking groups were tipped off to the vulnerability. Several additional hacking groups have recently been identified as taking advantage of…
IOTW: The U.S. Department Of Justice Takes A Stand Against North Korean Hackers
The indictment serves as evidence that the United States is increasingly willing to punish cybercriminal actors; a move that was previously reserved for government hacks. Included in the indictment is…
IOTW: China Possibly To Blame For India’s 2020 Power Outage As Cyber Warfare Inc…
India is taking extra measures to keep threat actors out of its infrastructure including strengthening firewalls, blacklisting additional IP addresses, and utilizing antivirus software. Cyber attacks…
IOTW: End-Of-Life Third Party Software Responsible For Singtel Hack
Bank account information was stolen from 28 former employees. A few dozen credit card numbers belonging to staff members of a Singtel corporate customer and information from 23 related enterprises wer…
IOTW: A Thwarted Poisoning Attempt In A Small Florida County Serves As A Warning…
The hack itself was unsophisticated in nature, but it exemplifies a big-picture problem that has concerned cyber security experts for years: internet accessible operational technology (OT). That conce…
IOTW: Washington State Audit Into Hacking Fraud Is Compromised In A Hacking Ince…
The ESD is insistent that this new breach—after the criticism it faced for the spring breach—is not responsible for this incident. Instead, the blame is placed on Accellion, a third-party file transfe…

