Watch out! Facebook-owned photo-sharing service has recently patched a critical vulnerability that could have allowed hackers to compromise any Instagram account without requiring any interaction from the targeted users.Read More
A salami attack is when you take a very small amount of money from an awful lot of accounts. The canonical example is a bank programmer depositing sub-cent amounts of interest in a special account. These rounding errors add up.I’m trying to find the first actual documented theft or attempted theft using this attack.I’m hoping that a reader will know, when the first reports of salami attacks came out.This cyber attack, in theory, takes a small amount of data from a transaction. Imagine a big chunk of salami and a meat slicer. Every push of the meat slicer takes a small piece away.Read More
PRODSECBUG-2198 is a SQL injection vulnerability that attackers can exploit with no authentication required. Attack code was published on Friday that exploits a critical vulnerability in the Magento e-commerce platform.Read More
Scammers handling a phishing website for Office 365 credentials added live support to add to the illusion of legitimacy necessary to trick victims.Read More
The World’s most popular question-and-answer website Quora has suffered a massive data breach with unknown hackers gaining unauthorized access to potentially sensitive personal information of about 100 million of its users.
Quora announced the incident late Monday after its team last Friday discovered that an unidentified malicious third-party managed to gain unauthorized access to one of its systems and stole data on approximately 100 million users—that’s almost half of its entire user base.Read More
