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Yahoo now thinks all 3B accounts were impacted by 2013 breach, not 1B as thought
Internet giant Yahoo’s massive 2013 security breach has dealt the company yet another blow. The company now believes that all of its three billion accounts were impacted, not 1 billion as it previously thought. This will include all people who have Yahoo emails, and all people who had registered for any other Yahoo service like Flickr or fantasy sports. Read more…
Equifax twice missed finding Apache Struts vulnerability allowing breach to happen
Former Equifax CEO and Chairman Richard Smith sat before a house committee to address his actions during the period when his company exposed the personal information of 145.5 million people. The most eye-opening testimony he gave surrounded the fact that Equifax learned of the Apache Struts vulnerability from U.S. CERT and then twice searched for any issues in its networks coming up empty each time and thus allowing the flaw to remain unpatched in its Consumer Dispute Portal. Read more…
Severe flaws in DNS app create hacking risk for routers, smartphones, computers, IoT
Google researchers disclosed seven serious flaws in an open-source DNS software package Dnsmasq, which is is commonly preinstalled on routers, servers, smartphones, IoT devices and operating systems such the Linux distributions Ubuntu and Debian. The most severe of the vulnerabilities could be remotely exploited to run malicious code and hijack the device. Read more…
Net neutrality debate 'controlled by bots'
More than 80% of the comments submitted to a US regulator on the future of net neutrality came from bots, according to researchers. Data analytics company Gravwell said only 17.4% of the comments were unique. Most of the 22 million comments submitted to the Federal Communications Commission over the summer had been against net neutrality, it suggested. Read more...
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