500 Million Records Stolen in 2015 Due To Security Vulnerabilities
Despite the wide variety of cyber attacks against companies and individual users all over the world, far too many websites contain security vulnerabilities. Hackers have a relatively easy time to gain access to centralized databases and obtain sensitive user information. Three In Four Sites Have Security Vulnerabilities. A new report by Symantec paints a rather painful picture for enterprises and individual website owners who collect consumer data. Considering how close to three in four sites have security vulnerabilities which have gone unpatched for quite some time now, the situation is....
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While developers around the world are discovering potential sue cases for blockchain technology, security analysts have disclosed multiple SSH key vulnerabilities plaguing Cisco’s network security virtual appliances. Exploiting these vulnerabilities could give hackers unlimited access to these virtual appliances. Cisco is one the world’s leading companies as far as networking capabilities is concerned. With most of our technology taking on a cloud platform allure, Cisco has developed network security virtual appliances for different use cases. However, an SSH vulnerability was discovered,....
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HTX, formerly Huobi Global, was exploited recently for almost $8 million. Following the incident, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) has offered his assistance in tracking the stolen funds. Meanwhile, the exchange has tried to reduce the impact of the exploits on the network. It proposed 5% of the total stolen amount, worth approximately $400,000, as […]