Security

The scraped data of over 500 million LinkedIn profiles has been put up for sale on a popular hacker forum.

The post's author has leaked two million records already as proof of the existence of the much larger data trove, as reported by Cybernews. The data, which is spread across four files, is said to include full names, email addresses, phone numbers, and information related to their place of work.

One of the biggest issues surrounding container deployments is security. This is such an issue because there are so many moving parts to be checked. You might have your container manifests perfectly secure, but what about your host? Or maybe your host is sound, but your YAML files are riddled with security holes.

L33tdawg: They're also presenting a paper at #HITB2021AMS in May - MacOS Local Security: Escaping the Sandbox and Bypassing TCC

Zero-day vulnerabilities within the Zoom Messenger desktop client could allow hackers to execute random code on a victim’s machine, security experts have claimed.

Thanks in large part to the global pandemic, collaboration platforms like Discord and Slack have taken up intimate positions in our lives, helping maintain personal ties despite physical isolation. But their increasingly integral role has also made them a powerful avenue for delivering malware to unwitting victims—sometimes in unexpected ways.

Ransomware operators shut down two production facilities belonging to a European manufacturer after deploying a relatively new strain that encrypted servers that control a manufacturer's industrial processes, a researcher from Kaspersky Lab said on Wednesday.

A critical security vulnerability in the VMware Carbon Black Cloud Workload appliance would allow privilege escalation and the ability to take over the administrative rights for the solution.

The bug (CVE-2021-21982) ranks 9.1 out of 10 on the CVSS vulnerability-severity scale.

Federal prosecutors have indicted a Kansas man for allegedly logging into a computer system at a public water system and tampering with the process for cleaning and disinfecting customers’ drinking water.

The FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said that advanced hackers are likely exploiting critical vulnerabilities in the Fortinet FortiOS VPN in an attempt to plant a beachhead to breach medium and large-sized businesses in later attacks.

Github has ignited a firestorm after the Microsoft-owned code-sharing repository removed a proof-of-concept exploit for critical vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange that have led to as many as 100,000 server infections in recent weeks.

Malaysia Airlines has suffered a data security "incident" that compromised personal information belonging to members of its frequent flyer programme, Enrich. The breach is purported to have occurred at some point during a period that spans almost a decade and involves a third-party IT service provider.