Insurance company Geico recently filed a data breach notice with the attorney general of California. According to the disclosure, the breach occurred between January 21, 2021 and March 1, 2021 and exposed customers’ driver license numbers. However, Geico did not disclose how many customers might have been affected nor whether the breach was limited to…
3rd Party Risk Management , Endpoint Security , Governance & Risk Management KPN Disputes Reported Surveillance Risk to Users, Who Included Dutch Prime Minister Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • April 20, 2021 KPN Telecom offices in Amersfoort, the Netherlands (Photo: Vysotsky via Wikimedia Commons) A bombshell news report suggests that Dutch mobile network…
A meeting between UK and Ukrainian officials has been held at the Ministry of Defence to discuss the growing crisis over Russian troop movements near Ukraine’s border. Ukraine’s ambassador to the UK, Vadym Prystaiko, said it was part of a regular dialogue between UK and Ukraine but today’s meeting had been very much influenced by…
Executive Summary Informations Name CVE-2021-25680 First vendor Publication 2021-04-20 Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2021-04-20 Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3 Cvss vector : N/A Overall CVSS Score NA Base Score NA Environmental Score NA impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA Exploitabality Sub Score NA Calculate full CVSS 3.0 Vectors scores Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2 Cvss…
India is seeing a huge spike in Covid-19 infections as this country finds itself in the grip of a second wave of the virus. The sheer number of patients coming into hospitals is huge and the healthcare system is working at its peak, Dr Jerryl Banait told BBC World News. “Every patient is being given…
WordPress has released version 5.7.1 of its popular content management system (CMS), which brings more than 25 bug fixes, including patches for two security vulnerabilities. One of the patched security flaws is an XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in the ID3 library in PHP 8, which is used by WordPress. Tracked as CVE-2021-29447, the vulnerability…
from the computers-on-blast dept Great news, everyone! The FBI has been fighting a cyberwar on your behalf… perhaps utilizing your own computer. Here’s Zack Whittaker with some details: A court in Houston has authorized an FBI operation to “copy and remove” backdoors from hundreds of Microsoft Exchange email servers in the United States, months after…
WordPress core contributor proposes treating Google FLoC as a security vulnerability | IT Security News 19. April 2021 Let’s opt every WordPress site out of FLoC. Nice idea, but security update? Really? A proposal by a WordPress core contributor to treat Google’s FLoC ad tech as a security vulnerability, and therefore backport an automatic opt-out…
The Czech Republic on Saturday blamed a series of mysterious 2014 explosions at Czech ammunition depots on an elite unit of Russia’s military intelligence service — a group that Britain has linked to a 2018 attack with a nerve agent on a former Russian spy in Salisbury, England. Prime Minister Andrej Babis said at a…
America’s top law enforcement agency “obtained a court order that allowed it to remove a backdoor program from hundreds of private Microsoft Exchange servers that were hacked through zero-day vulnerabilities earlier this year,” reports CSO. (Thanks to detritus. (Slashdot reader #46,421) for sharing the news…) Earlier this week, the Department of Justice announced that the…
