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New York state wants to ban government agencies from paying ransomware demands

Another NY Senate bill would create a cyber security enhancement fund and restricting the use of taxpayer moneys in paying ransoms

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15.5.2020
Ransomware

Picks of 2019 malware - the large, the small and the one full of null bytes, (Thu, Jan 16th)

Although less than two days have gone by since the latest release of MSFT patches, I find that it would actually be hard to add anything interesting to them that hasn&#x27t been discussed before, as the most important vulnerabilities (couple of RCEs and an interesting vulnerability in CryptoAPI) seemed to be all anyone talked about for the last 24 hours. If you didn&#x27t hear anything about it, I suggest you take a look at the ISC coverage of the CryptoAPI vulnerability[1] as well as the Patch Tuesday overview[2]. But for the rest of us, I thought today might be a good day to take a short break from this topic and take a look at what the last year brought us instead.

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15.5.2020
Malware

Clop Ransomware Now Kills Windows 10 Apps and 3rd Party Tools

The Clop Ransomware continues to evolve with a new and integrated process killer that targets some interesting processes belonging to Windows 10 apps, text editors, programming IDEs and languages, and office applications. [...]

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15.5.2020
Ransomware

On Authorization and Implementation of Access Control Models

There are dozens of implementations of authorization mechanisms. When there are complex requirements dictated by business processes, authorization mechanisms may often be implemented incorrectly or, at least, not optimally. The reason for that, in my opinion, is the low attention of both the customer and developers to this aspect in the initial stages of the […]… Read More The post On Authorization and Implementation of Access Control Models appeared first on The State of Security.

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15.5.2020
Outdated Access Rights

Nedbank client data hack – The security problems at Computer Facilities

In addition to weak passwords, a researcher also found several old security vulnerabilities on Computer Facilities’ web servers.

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15.5.2020
Illegal Personal Data Processing

Mixcloud Breach Hits Millions of Users

British streaming service the latest to suffer major security incident

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15.5.2020
Password Attacks

Supply Chain Security Amid Coronavirus Fallout

As the impacts of the global spread of COVID-19 continue to be felt by businesses everywhere, one area that is increasingly strained is the supply chain. If your business has not already seen disruption to its supply chain, chances are a need to adjust planning and make accommodations for disruption are right around the corner... The post Supply Chain Security Amid Coronavirus Fallout appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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15.5.2020
Supply Chain Attacks

HTC Mania - 1,488,089 breached accounts

In January 2020, the Spanish mobile phone forum HTC Mania suffered a data breach of the vBulletin based site. The incident exposed 1.5M member email addresses, usernames, IP addresses, dates of birth and salted MD5 password hashes and password histories. Data from the breach was subsequently redistributed on popular hacking websites.

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15.5.2020
Illegal Personal Data Processing

Blizzard hit by massive DDoS attack; EA Sports facing lagging issue

By Waqas Blizzard has been hit by massive DDoS attack - Here's what's happening and here's where its service is down... This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Blizzard hit by massive DDoS attack; EA Sports facing lagging issue

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15.5.2020
Denial-of-Service Attacks