You may have wondered what application containers are, let alone how to secure them. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) sets out to explain the benefits and security concerns with application container technologies in the latest Special Publication (SP 800-190) Application Container Security Guide.
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An OpenEMR vulnerability could expose millions of medical records to attackers. The flaw has been patched with OpenEMR 5.0.0 Patch 6 a couple of weeks ago. Unpatched versions could allow an attacker to steal patient records and personal data by exploiting the vulnerability in the setup.php installation script. OpenEMR is a popular open source electronic health records and medical practice
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The latest version of macOS High Sierra allows any local user with physical access to take over any Mac by logging in as root and no password.
Google security researchers discovered a backdoor family of malware called Tizi that can root Android devices and exploit older vulnerabilities.
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a joint technical alert on updated threat intelligence on a remote administration tool (RAT) dubbed FALLCHILL used by the North Korean government.
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Researchers from Qihoo 360 Netlab have reported a big uptick in botnet activity targeting internet connected devices made by ZyXEL Communications.
Variant of Mirai botnet targets ZyXEL devices Read More »
Forcepoint security researchers have spotted a massive email cyber campaign that uses the infamous Necurs botnet to push new ransomware dubbed “Scarab”.
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Multiple Linux distributions are at risk to a vulnerability in systemd service that could lead to a denial-of-service (DoS) attack on unpatched systems.
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Uber suffered a massive data breach in October 2016 and paid hackers $100,000 to keep quiet about it and delete the data. The breach resulted in the loss of sensitive personal information on nearly 50 million Uber users and 7 million Uber drivers. According to the current CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, the personal data included drivers licenses
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Three misconfigured AWS S3 buckets exposed US military archives of an astounding size.
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